eSchool News

JULY 20, 2022

Data suggests that between 2000 and 2019, the number of college graduates (ages 25-34) in urban America increased from 26 percent to 39 percent, while in rural America, this number increased only by 6 percent(15 percent to 21 percent). trillion by 2030. In fact, AI’s contribution to the global GDP is expected to soar to $15.7

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Some call it “The Rise of the Machines” for the convergence of multiple technologies: artificial intelligence, big data, data science, robotics plus virtual and augmented reality. We see an explosion of startups.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Despite in 2019 the U.S. For example, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board adopted the Developmental Education Plan in support of its overarching goal to have at least 60 percent of Texans ages 25 to 34 earn certificates or degrees by 2030. poverty rate being 10.5

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2021

These include health care, cybersecurity, information technology, construction, manufacturing, transportation, law enforcement and utilities. It also creates a huge need for people to build and run the technology. Related: The pandemic is speeding up the mass disappearance of men from college.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

This need is urgent due to the demographic, economic and technological changes shaping the workforce. Compare that to companies today, like the e-commerce giant Amazon, which in 2019 reportedly employed 798,000 persons and is currently projected to employ more than 1 million by the end of 2020.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 12, 2023

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. 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007, 2019, 2031), you are a person who "remember past events well and learn quickly from your mistakes.

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 18, 2019

McKinsey just published a new report, “The future of work in America: People and places, today and tomorrow” ( summary ; longer document ), looking ahead to 2030 after new technologies have had some impact. Let me identify what I see as the key bits for the future of higher education and technology.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Hiring Process Has Become More Technology-Driven A key factor I’ve been studying is how employers are thinking about talent and changes in the hiring process, including shifts in their perceptions of college and university and other credentials. are hard at work on standards frameworks.

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Evelyn Learning

JUNE 8, 2023

When a new idea or technology becomes available and shows promising usage, powerful governments run to grasp the technology and take advantage of being early adopters. The more resources and technological advancement a country has, the more influential and rich it becomes. And why not? World economics works that way.

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EdTechTeam

AUGUST 9, 2019

An early adopter of iPads Jennifer remains dedicated to using technology in schools for a social purpose. She has aligned her recent work with the Sustainable Development Goals produced by the United Nations in 2015 (as an agenda for moving forward to 2030). Schools or individual classrooms can sign up to participate.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 15, 2023

President of the American Library Association 2018-2019. Recently at ALA: Chair, Status of Women in Librarianship and Chair, ALA United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Task Force developing a multi-year strategic plan for ALA. Currently at ALA: Chair, IRC United Nations Subcommittee, Chair Public Awareness Committee.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 2, 2023

President of the American Library Association 2018-2019. Recently at ALA: Chair, Status of Women in Librarianship and Chair, ALA United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Task Force developing a multi-year strategic plan for ALA. Currently at ALA: Chair, IRC United Nations Subcommittee, Chair Public Awareness Committee.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 27, 2023

President of the American Library Association 2018-2019. Recently at ALA: Chair, Status of Women in Librarianship and Chair, ALA United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Task Force developing a multi-year strategic plan for ALA. Currently at ALA: Chair, IRC United Nations Subcommittee, Chair Public Awareness Committee.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 22, 2023

President of the American Library Association 2018-2019. Recently at ALA: Chair, Status of Women in Librarianship and Chair, ALA United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Task Force developing a multi-year strategic plan for ALA. Currently at ALA: Chair, IRC United Nations Subcommittee, Chair Public Awareness Committee.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 31, 2023

President of the American Library Association 2018-2019. Recently at ALA: Chair, Status of Women in Librarianship and Chair, ALA United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals Task Force developing a multi-year strategic plan for ALA. Currently at ALA: Chair, IRC United Nations Subcommittee, Chair Public Awareness Committee.

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 18, 2019

McKinsey just published a new report, “The future of work in America: People and places, today and tomorrow” ( summary ; longer document ), looking ahead to 2030 after new technologies have had some impact. Let me identify what I see as the key bits for the future of higher education and technology.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2019

It's a place where researchers are delving into topics around race, the global environment and how to prepare changing societies for new technology and the workforce. We have the technology to move this water. Eighteenth century technology in the 21st century world. The advent of machines and machine technology itself is old.

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EdTechnocation.com

JANUARY 15, 2020

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2022

It’s part of an accelerating movement of noncredit, short-term training programs, not just in technology, but in many fields for which students are impatient for jobs and employers for workers who want to leapfrog their way to careers — and do it without necessarily spending the years and money it takes to earn a university degree.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Shareef’s mother saw a TV commercial for a program that offered 12 weeks of training for technology careers, tuition-free. They are also doubling down on preparing people for career opportunities they’d focused on before the pandemic, such as health care, information technology and advanced manufacturing.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In the summer, Black enrollment overall dropped by more than 6 percent , compared to 2019, more sharply than that of any other racial group. The Detroit region added 173,000 new jobs after the last recession, mostly in industries requiring college credentials, such as information technology, insurance, financial services and health care.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2021

Among its recommendations, New America calls on policymakers to “expand the E-Rate Program so that libraries and schools can get discounts on the technology services that patrons and students need to get online from home.” When I Say ‘Virtual’ Education, I Mean ‘Reality’ So what do we desire in education technology after the pandemic fades?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2022

Further down the road, this means that ever more Black and Latino students will be shut out from the high-paying STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) careers that will make up a growing share of the job market. In 2019, 954 Black students in grades 3-8 scored at the highest achievement level for math across the state.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2021

education technology startups raised over $2.2 billion invested in 2019 , which was spread across 105 deals. Many education entrepreneurs have long mused about how new technologies would usher in a “disruption” of the education market. companies reached a record $130 billion in 2020 , or up 14 percent from 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2022

What that report doesn’t tell us is whether schools will invest those funds to break with the past, through such technologies as electric heat pumps , or simply install new fossil fuel furnaces, boilers and more. Indeed, a recent report shows that HVAC systems are slated to be the single largest category of planned spending.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

Only a quarter of recent grads in another survey, by the educational publishing and technology company Cengage, said that, if they could do it again, they’d take the same educational path. Cases such as that have “really put a sour taste in the mouths of some people,” Hicks said.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 28, 2019

I met Ana Ostrovsky at a big Climate Strike event in March of 2019. But technology allows young people living through this moment to be heard by a much larger audience, Fernandez said. But by some estimates, the world will be feeling dramatic, irreversible changes due to climate change by 2030. Blowouts , for example.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2018

The jobs that once kept the city prosperous are being replaced by skilled jobs in service sectors such as health care, finance and information technology — positions that require more education than just a high-school diploma, thus squeezing out many of those blue-collar, traditionally middle-class workers.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

The conference is being held Monday, November 18 - Wednesday, November 20, 2019 (November 21 in some time zones). We currently have 10 keynotes and 130 regular sessions scheduled over the course of three days. LOTS of information below! The entire virtual conference is held online. Registration (free) is required. Dr. Beate W.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

Now it’s 2019, and after federal and state budget cuts, spiraling tuition, political distraction and increasing public skepticism about the value of a higher education, the nation is far behind schedule in realizing this goal. That is an increase from the current 38 percent, and would require doubling the annual number of graduates by then.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2021

But replacing aging ventilation systems with new versions of the same out-of-date technology won’t be enough, warned Tony Hans, an engineer specializing in green buildings. Completed in 2019, the $36.2 The district has committed to transitioning to clean electricity by 2030 and to becoming carbon neutral by 2040. Credit: CMTA.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

According to the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER)’s 2019 State of Preschool report, only a handful of states serve more than 70 percent of 4-year-olds through state-funded preschool. “We want to make sure we are starting off as responsive as we can be to those telling us they are interested in this.”

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