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?Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning

Edsurge

In 2014, Kings College in New York became the first university in the U.S. Google gave a similar live lesson service a shot—minus the cryptocurrency—where viewers and experts could connect via Google Hangout to learn skills such as photography, cooking or education. Sony says it is working towards a 2018 rollout.

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This Workforce Partnership Trains Tech Talent. Can It Boost Civic Engagement Too?

Edsurge

That effort got a boost in 2014, when the California Department of Education awarded Career Pathways Trust Grants to K-12 and community college districts to support work-based learning and career pathway opportunities for high school students. Today there are three main components to PilotCity’s programming.

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Impatient with universities’ slow pace of change, employers go around them

The Hechinger Report

million new tech jobs will be created between 2014 and 2024, many of them requiring people with data and computer-science credentials. It usually manages to fill just two or three of those positions, Soni said. Soni is more blunt. “The industry would be very satisfied if higher education was taking care of it,” said Eaton. “I

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

Code.org is backed by a long list of technology companies – from AT&T to Amazon to Facebook to Google to Verizon. (I’ll Sony’s in the business. I’ll look in more detail at how robots are coming for your children in the next article in this series.). Malta thinks it’s necessary, I guess.

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Education Technology and the History of the Future of Credentialing

Hack Education

According to its later report from the Lumina Foundation, more than 45% of Americans between age 25 and 64 did in 2014.). It’s an assessment now administered by Pearson, and since the education giant took over the GED in 2014, pass rates have plummeted. But again, what count as a “quality postsecondary credential”?