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Educational technology (commonly abbreviated as edutech, or edtech) is the combined use of computer hardware, software, and educational theory and practice to facilitate learning.

When referred to with its abbreviation, "EdTech," it often refers to the industry of companies that create educational technology.

In EdTech Inc.: Selling, Automating and Globalizing Higher Education in the Digital Age, Tanner Mirrlees and Shahid Alvi (2019) argue "EdTech is no exception to industry ownership and market rules" and "define the EdTech industries as all the privately owned companies currently involved in the financing, production and distribution of commercial hardware, software, cultural goods, services and platforms for the educational market with the goal of turning a profit.

Many of these companies are US-based and rapidly expanding into educational markets across North America, and increasingly growing all over the world.".

Training is teaching, or developing in oneself or others, any skills and knowledge or fitness that relate to specific useful competencies.

Training has specific goals of improving one's , capacity, productivity and .

It forms the core of apprenticeships and provides the backbone of content at institutes of technology (also known as technical colleges or polytechnics).

In addition to the basic training required for a trade, occupation or profession, training may continue beyond initial competence to maintain, upgrade and update skills throughout working life.

People within some professions and occupations may refer to this sort of training as professional development.

Training also refers to the development of physical fitness related to a specific competence, such as sport, martial arts, military applications and some other occupations.

Professional certification, trade certification, or professional designation, often called simply certification or qualification, is a designation earned by a person to assure qualification to perform a job or task.

Not all certifications that use post-nominal letters are an acknowledgement of educational achievement, or an agency appointed to safeguard the public interest.