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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

Edsurge

In a world where the largest software vendors like Apple and Google don’t write the apps, we are at a tipping point as the worldwide gap widens between skills delivered by the current educational systems and those required by the digital economy. The job market will continue to segregate into low-skill- low-pay and high-skill-high-pay jobs.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

In 2008, ever hopeful, Gartner insisted that “This thing certainly isn’t dead and maybe it will yet blossom.” “Software is eating the world,” investor Marc Andreessen pronounced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2011. But that doesn’t jibe with “software is eating the world,” does it?

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For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

The Hechinger Report

Enrollment in this program has more than tripled since 2008, when it was updated shortly after Bergman’s arrival; it now has almost 500 students, a number that remained steady during the pandemic. One reason for that is the support, said Eric Olson, 44, who works in software sales and earned his associate degree in May.

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