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COVID-19 Has Widened the Skills Gap. But It Also Presents an Opportunity to Close It.

Edsurge

In 2008, it was global experience. Since 2014, Salesforce has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop curriculum for Trailhead, its free online learning platform. The skills they want have also shifted. Today, organizations are struggling to find tech-savvy workers. Employers have two choices.

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Virtual Technology: A Solution to Rural Isolation

Digital Promise

A 2008 state audit found that parents were pleased with how much they learned with these home visits. Virtual Learning: A Human-Centered Approach. A virtual learning center is different than distance or online learning. Hughes emphasized, “This is not distance learning. Her answer: Do it virtually.

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2U’s ‘Third Chapter’ Begins With a $750M Acquisition of Trilogy Education

Edsurge

This marks the largest purchase to date by 2U, which launched in 2008 to work with colleges and universities to create online graduate degree programs. As part of the arrangement, 2U also paid $13 million to Flatiron School, a coding bootcamp owned by WeWork, to use the school’s online learning platform.

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

Edsurge

Yet, when I graduated from college in 2008, I didn’t know this field existed. As online course platforms proliferate, institutions of all shapes and sizes realize that they’ll need to translate content into digital forms. Don’t try to migrate an in-person experience into an online format. Surely a lot has changed!

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Experiences in Self-Determined Learning: Moving from Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0

User Generated Education

From Obstacle to Opportunity: Using Government-mandated Curriculum Change as a Springboard for Changes in Learning and Teaching: Jon Andrews. Applying Heutagogy in Online Learning: The SIDE Model: Eric Belt. will use this profile to tailor the browsing experience to each individual (Strickland, 2008, para. 2008, March 8).

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What’s the bottom line on online preschool?

The Hechinger Report

Since 2008, Utah has given its families an alternative to preschool called Upstart. Developed and administered through a state contract with the Waterford Institute, the Upstart program provides four-year-olds with in-home online curriculum. But online learning can fill in where parents’ knowledge and skills reach their limits.

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The survival of higher education (1): Changing roles

Learning with 'e's

I pointed out that one of the key technologies for the future would be the World Wide Web (I was of course unaware at the time just how vital it would become) and that managed (virtual) learning environments would become a useful means of organising and supporting online learning for large groups of distributed learners.