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The Pandemic Will Leave More Students Unprepared For College. Developmental Education Must Help.

Edsurge

billion dollars out-of-pocket nationally and $920 million at two-year colleges during the 2013 to 2014 school year to take developmental courses—courses in which just more than one-in-four students prove to be successful. This, understandably, presented a grave concern for business and industry, legislators, educators and ultimately students.

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014, 2026), you will exhibit these attributes: being energetic, full of life, goal oriented, sociable, easy going, and free-spirited. 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018, 2030), you are likely to be a person who is loyal, loves to snuggle, is attentive to details, and loves company.

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

Edsurge

According to Dell Technologies and the Institute for the Future, 85 percent of the jobs in 2030 don’t exist yet. From 2015 to 2019, entrepreneurs created 11 times the number of education unicorns compared to 2005 to 2014. The job market will continue to segregate into low-skill- low-pay and high-skill-high-pay jobs.

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The number of public school students could fall by more than 8% in a decade

The Hechinger Report

But in order to predict high school graduates, WICHE’s statisticians also projected student enrollments for first grade through 2020 to 12th grade through 2030. These grade-by-grade projections start to show a drop in first-grade children beginning in 2014, six years after the 2008 recession, when Americans started making fewer babies.

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The Winners and Filmstrips of An (Almost) Decade in Education Technology

Edsurge

MOOCs appear first in the filmstrip category, because by 2014, higher ed pretty much thought that MOOCs were dead. Here’s my prediction for 2020 through 2030: In the new decade, edtech entrepreneurs will partner more closely with educators from the start to create learning solutions.

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Michelle Weise: ‘We Need to Design the Learning Ecosystem of the Future’

Edsurge

As an example, in 2014, LinkedIn’s top ten jobs were jobs that hadn’t existed five years prior: social media intern, iOS/Android developer, cloud manager, big data architect, or UI/UX designer as examples. We can’t extrapolate from where we are today to meet the challenges of the workforce of 2030 or 2040.

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Learning Revolution Events - AltEdFilmFest - Homeschool+ - Gaming in Ed Call for Proposals - Open Letter from a Highly Creative Child

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update August 5th, 2014 One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. Deadlines Gaming in Ed , September 15th - 19th, 2014 Upcoming deadlines: The Call for Proposals for the inaugural Gaming in Ed conference is now open. RSVP at [link].

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