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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.".

Onboarding or organizational socialization is the American term for the mechanism through which new employees acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviors to become effective organizational members and insiders.

In standard English, this is referred to as "induction".

In the United States, up to 25% of workers are organizational newcomers engaged in onboarding process.

Employment is a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services.

Usually based on a contract, one party, the employer, which might be a corporation, a not-for-profit organization, a co-operative, or any other entity, pays the other, the employee, in return for carrying out assigned work.

Employees work in return for wages, which can be paid on the basis of an hourly rate, by piecework or an annual salary, depending on the type of work an employee does, the prevailing conditions of the sector and the bargaining power between the parties.

Employees in some sectors may receive gratuities, bonus payments or stock options.

In some types of employment, employees may receive benefits in addition to payment.

Benefits may include health insurance, housing, disability insurance.

Employment is typically governed by employment laws, organisation or legal contracts.

A learning management system (LMS) is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting, automation, and delivery of educational courses, training programs, materials or learning and development programs.

The learning management system concept emerged directly from e-Learning.

Learning management systems make up the largest segment of the learning system market.

The first introduction of the LMS was in the late 1990s.

Learning management systems have faced a massive growth in usage due to the emphasis on remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.