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Higher education in India is moving ahead on the global stage.

Linways Technologies

India has seen a massive expansion in the higher education sector – an almost four-fold increase in enrolments and institutions since 2001. Between 1996 and 2001, India and China had similar GERs. To address the skills gap in fresh hires, many companies are forced to invest in lengthy training programmes.

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How to reorientate education from knowledge acquisition to knowledge & skill mastery

100mentors

If companies don’t even ask for test scores & GPAs from candidates anymore, then why is our whole education system measured by the success in examinations still? Waterman, Schwartz, Goldbacher, Green, Miller, Philip, 2001 ). And, is this what is driving motivation & student engagement down?

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

Herbert Simon, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and learning engineering who died in 2001, is immersed in his office at Carnegie Mellon University. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought. The issue here is: how do you improve education by a factor of 10?”

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Achieving Equity Through Systems, Strategies, and Educational Justice

edWeb.net

Located in the suburbs north of Seattle, and close to the headquarters of high-tech companies such as Microsoft and Amazon, the Northshore School District’s students are 60% White, 17% Asian, and 13% Hispanic, with another 9% identifying as mixed race. Systems, Strategies, and an Equity Framework. Ayva Thomas.

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NCLB’s legacy: As the ESSA era begins, have policymakers, educators learned from the past?

The Hechinger Report

Passed in 2001, the No Child Left Behind Act was the centerpiece of President George W. Whether that’s an aberration or a trend is something that will require another year of test scores to determine. Bush’s education reform policy. But scores dipped in almost all grades and subject areas on the 2015 test compared with 2013.

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Global Collaboration Week Begins - Find a Project and Connect!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DIRECTIONS: Step 1: Join us at the online meeting room on Zoom ([link] Step 2: We are going to play a Kahoot game to learn some things about Amazon. The moderators of this session represent communities that have been meeting and collaborating online for well over a decade now. English language learners are welcome, too.

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How one small college exemplifies higher education’s problems and potential solutions

The Hechinger Report

Eisner, who graduated from Emmanuel herself in 1963, said she meets with her top managers every week “to make sure that we are in sync watching this. You know, what’s the trend?”. Lately many trends affecting small colleges like this one have been particularly worrying. Credit: Meredith Nierman for The Hechinger Report.

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