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Trade programs — unlike other areas of higher education — are in hot demand

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There, as the sun begins to set on a 70-degree February day, the students in the auto collision repair night class are preparing to spend the next five hours studying. Among them is 26-year-old Cheven Jones, taking a break from working on his 2003 Lexus IS 300. Credit: John Amis/Associated Press Now, Pedraza studies from 7:45 a.m.

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Months After a Devastating Hurricane, Puerto Rican Schools Turn to the Sun

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We started to energize the Escuela Segunda Unidad Matrullas of Orocovis with solar panels,” said Cidre on his Facebook page. It points to a study by a researcher at the University of Puerto Rico that found that installing panels on 65 percent of the structures on the island would be enough to generate 100 percent of its energy needs.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

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Personally, I find myself in agreement with Brian Winston (2003), preferring to view social applications as a facet of gradual evolution rather than symptoms of sudden revolution. digital media FaceBook higher education learning social web Technology The future Twitter universities Web 2.0 Essentially, the Web has become more social.

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What Video Games Like Doom Teach Us About Learning, According to GBL Guru James Paul Gee

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The Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University has been playing video games for four hours every day since 2003, solving puzzles and battling bosses in games such as Doom, Darksiders 2 and Uncharted 4. Gee: The first game I played was Adventures of the New Time Machine , in 2003.

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The changing Web

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My own students create a lot of their own content during their study, usually in the form of podcasts, videos, wiki and blog content, and are encouraged to share these publicly online to gain additional feedback. 2003) Media Technology and Society: A History: From the Telegraph to the Internet. geotagging). How much will Web 2.0

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

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By 2006 several social networking sites were enjoying surges in popularity, including MySpace, Bebo and of course, Facebook. Other tools such as wikis, blogs and podcasts also began to be used in education, at first tentatively, and then as embedded features in various programmes of study. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

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In practice, though, it can take many different forms, including independent study, learning communities and online programs. In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8 Some were still studying geometry, others had advanced to Algebra II. One group was just starting on probability. The state ramps up.

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