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

The Hechinger Report

But colleges and universities are turning out only about 28,000 computer-science graduates with bachelor’s and master’s degrees per year, based on the most recent figures from 2015, according to the consulting firm Deloitte. It usually manages to fill just two or three of those positions, Soni said. Soni is more blunt.

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?Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning

Edsurge

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. That service shut down in 2015, and according to the Verge , the company said it had not “grown at the pace we had expected.”

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

Edsurge

Those funds have been crucial in supporting the work of PilotCity, which was officially established in 2015. Roughly 200 local employers, including Kaiser Permanente, OSISoft, Sony and Typeform, have also participated. The company also designed a makerspace for nearby Hayward Unified School District that year.

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Android Apps for the understanding level of Bloom's

Kathy Schrock

This is a re-posting of a blog post of August 5, 2013, which originally appeared on the now-defunct Sony Education Ambassadors site. On July 7, 2015, I provided an overview of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy and include a set of Android apps and Web sites that could be used to support teaching and learning at the remembering level.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” The Google Memo. Via Motherboard : “ Google Employee’s Anti-Diversity Manifesto Goes ‘Internally Viral’ ” Via Wired : “Internal Messages Show Some Googlers Supported Fired Engineer’s Manifesto.” million in revenue in 2015, and its executive compensation was $2.8

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Five Ethical Considerations For Using Virtual Reality with Children and Adolescents

MindShift

Little was left to the imagination when, in 2015, a controversial virtual reality simulator titled 08:46 put users in the perspective of an office worker trapped in the World Trade Center. All the major players, including Microsoft, Sony, Samsung, Google and an HTC and Valve partnership are jostling for the consumer headset market.

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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. You can look to Lynda.com, which was acquired by LinkedIn in 2015 for $1.5 Malta thinks it’s necessary, I guess. Pearson filed a patent for badges.