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Not Your Grandfather's Corporate Training: 5 Trends Changing Workforce Learning

Edsurge

Case studies and visual simulations are becoming more common ways of providing this type of experiential learning. These various ways of training account for 64 percent of the learning tools identified by the respondents in this study, which is more than significant.

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Worldwide, Online, and Free - The Library 2.013 Conference Starts Friday

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

Wired Campus

Blumenstyk as a reporter surveying the landscape, Mr. Jones as a professor and administrator at a college, and Mr. Freedman as an investor looking for the next big thing in education technology. Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs. I mean, MOOCs aren’t learning platforms, they’re distribution platforms.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “Peter Thiel May Finally Get His Flying Cars, Thanks to a New Udacity Nanodegree in 2018.” ” Via Times Higher Education : “ Online courses ‘more time-consuming’ to prepare for , study says.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” “How to Con Black Law Students: A Case Study” – Elie Mystal in The New York Times on a partnership between the HBCU Bethune-Cookman and the for-profit Arizona Summit Law School. ” Ng is, of course, the co-founder of the MOOC startup Coursera. Tressie McMillan Cottom weighs in. Check Wikipedia.”

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Education Technology and the 'New' For-Profit Higher Education

Hack Education

Funnily enough, many of the very publications who consistently made fun of the offerings from Trump University rarely offer any critical analysis of the structure or content of MOOCs or coding bootcamps. In June, Trump promised that he would re-open Trump University when he won the court case. (The

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via Education Week : “High-achieving North Carolina 8th graders who took Algebra 1 online performed worse than similar students who took the course in a traditional classroom, according to a new study from researchers at Northwestern University.”