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10 Ways Interactive Touch Screen Displays Improve Education

ViewSonic Education

Add collaboration software and students can cast and share content from their seats. By 2030, 30 to 40 percent of jobs will require strong social-emotional skills. Like captions, text highlighters and text-to-speech software. Plus easy-to-use content sharing software. Often no software licensing fees. Easy to Use.

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Some Very Bad News about the UNESCO OER Recommendation

Iterating Toward Openness

This makes it illegal, for example, to write open source software for playing DVDs – even for the purposes of playing DVDs you properly purchased and legally own – because you don’t have a license to use the proprietary encryption technology for DVDs. Section II.8

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

Hack Education

The quotation is from 2012. Indeed, according to the latest statistics from the Department of Education – now granted, this is from the 2012–2013 academic year – there are 4726 degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the United States. A 46% increase since 1980.

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

The Hechinger Report

One reason for that is the support, said Eric Olson, 44, who works in software sales and earned his associate degree in May. In Kentucky, the target is 60 percent by 2030 (“60×30”). (Eighty-three percent of students are over age 24.) Students have an 82 percent course completion rate.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education has hired as its new chancellor a former University of California official who managed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ’s work on postsecondary education from 2012 until early this year.” Economy by 2030.” million total.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“Despite the buzz, competency-based education remains a challenging market for software vendors,” says Inside Higher Ed. “By 2030 students will be learning from robots ,” the World Economic Forum claims. The presentation software startup has raised $5.15 Accreditation and Certification. million total.