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?Making A New Era: How A High-Tech Facility Is Shifting Students’ Mindset Around Manufacturing

Edsurge

The multi-million-dollar facility is stocked with today’s most advanced manufacturing equipment ranging from steel 3D printers to precision cutters to collaborative robotics that work alongside humans on the factory floor. Additional funding came from community donors and companies themselves, like GE Power, which contributed $500,000.

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7 Days of Education Conference Fever Across the Pond

Edsurge

23-26): the companies who supply the tools, and the educators who use them; The Education Show (Jan. Many of the ministers hop on over to Davos’ annual meeting afterward. One teacher described The Education Show as “a ghost town for companies who can’t afford Bett.” (A 20-23): the people who run education politically; Bett (Jan.

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A new way of helping students pay for college: Give them corporate jobs

The Hechinger Report

The companies get reliable employees and prospective hires while universities can promise students help with keeping their loan debt low. Related: How colleges can help their students out-compete robots. The companies pay EAW, which then pays the student workers, while the universities provide the office space.

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Has New Hampshire found the secret to online education that works?

The Hechinger Report

There’s an assumption that virtual school students are closed off, online all day, and they don’t ever meet anyone. During these introductory sessions, by phone or web chat, Kent explains course logistics — for example, how she and the student will meet (virtually) at least once a month and how to upload weekly assignments.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Chopra worked at the CFPB and, while there, “sued two for-profit-college companies – ITT Educational Services Inc. – over accusations about abusive lending practices,” as The Chronicle of Higher Education notes. ” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

And this prompted me to update my list of education / technology companies that are ALEC members.). His rather disastrous business history in ed-tech includes SoftKey and The Learning Company. Via Reuters : “A major Chinese education company that was subsidising a project to verify transcripts of Chinese students applying to U.S.

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Convincing students that learning blue-collar job skills will pay off

The Hechinger Report

Matthew Porter, a student at Craig High School, inspects a “collaborative” robot at Prent Corporation, in Janesville, Wisconsin. The high school students clustered around a four-foot-tall red robot with long arms and cartoonish eyes. Photo: Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. JANESVILLE, Wis. — So study hard. Is it worth it?”

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