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CSU and California Community Colleges Partner on a Tool To Find Transferable Online Courses

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Two of the largest higher-education systems in the country are partnering to pilot an online course finder tool to increase students’ access to 10,000 online and transferable courses. The tool just helps students find the high-quality education that we have available.” The year-long initiative, called Finish Faster!, million learners.

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Education Is the New Healthcare, and Other Trends Shaping Edtech Investing

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Since 2017, investment has accelerated with $14 billion allocated, according to research firm HolonIQ. These tools can amplify feelings of loneliness and serve as a platform for cyberbullying. HolonIQ estimates that global spending on digital education tools surpassed $150 billion last year, and will double by 2025.

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Can You Say Unicorn? Duolingo Raises $30 Million at $1.5 Billion Valuation

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billion by 2025. Today Duolingo numbers 200 employees, up from 95 in July 2017, when the company last raised funding. An AI chatbot for conversation practice was removed last year, but the company plans to reintegrate the tool into the regular lessons eventually, von Ahn said in an email to EdSurge. billion in 2020 to $10.5

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University of Chicago projected to be the first U.S. university to cost $100,000 a year

The Hechinger Report

But in less than a decade, by 2025, students like Badalamente could expect to pay more than $100,000 per year, based on projections by The Hechinger Report using annual college cost growth rates from 2008 to 2018. This story was based on data from Tuition Tracker, a tool from The Hechinger Report. college or university.

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Why Teach Digital Citizenship in 2022

Fractus Learning

It will overcome the obstacle where these students don’t have the necessary tools to assist them with their special need. Projection expects that by the end of 2025, 291.2 Digital budgeting apps are great tools to teach children how to manage money in our cashless society. Globally 2.14 billion people shopped online in 2021.

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

ATLANTA — When Keenan Robinson started college in 2017, he knew the career he wanted. Companies like Amazon and Netflix have been using data tools like these for years to track our clicks and steer us to buy or watch more of their products. Schools are buying these tools for a good reason – too many students are dropping out.

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Colleges are adding programs in a once-decimated industry — manufacturing

The Hechinger Report

million manufacturing jobs will need to be filled by 2025. In November 2017, Washington state’s Shoreline Community College announced a new two-year degree in mechatronics — which prepares students to work with manufacturing systems. Its first class — of nine students — graduated in June 2017. Nationwide, about 3.5

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