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Your Syllabus to SXSW EDU 2019 (and Where to Find Us!)

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Between the barbeque and baristas, the dive bars and dueling pianos, thousands of educators, along with entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and policymakers across the education industry, will descend on Austin, Texas, during the first week of March for SXSW EDU. Who Does Online Education Really Serve? Tuesday, March 5, 4 p.m.

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It’s Time to Take College Student Hunger and Homelessness Seriously

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Many of the jobs were in the retail and restaurant industries, which typically afford flexible hours to students but have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic closures. The need to work in order to provide for oneself and to pay school tuition is exacerbated by rising costs of living, stagnant wages —and school debt.

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Guest post: Biggest eLearning content trends of 2020 and beyond

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If we go by Training Magazine’s prediction about the eLearning industry, it will be safe to say that Online learning is not a small industry anymore. In fact, expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 5% between 2019 and 2024 and expected to cross the $200 billion mark by 2024. .

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COLUMN: Changes to come should be ‘music to your ears,’ higher education innovators say

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Covid “was such a boon to our industry,” said Anant Agarwal , founder and CEO of the online course platform EdX, which has more than 160 university partners and more than 2,000 free courses. This move to online learning is here to stay. We’ll never rubber-band back to the old days.”. And that is not going to happen.

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What Workforce Education Is Learning From the Pandemic

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Online learning—often touted as an up-and-coming way of delivering education—took its place on the world stage as the de facto model, regardless of how prepared students, employees and educators were for the experience. Transitional solutions that help people shift from one industry to another. have reached nearly 46 million.

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As Child Care Challenges Threaten the American Workforce, Business Leaders Call for Action

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Synchrony also offers virtual summer activities and online learning for the children of employees, flexibility in hours and the opportunity to work from home. Virtual summer camp was also born out of pandemic, created in response to summer camp and child care center closures, Hu adds.

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Coursera Co-Founder Andrew Ng Wants to Bring ‘AI to Everyone’ in Latest Course

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But the course won’t be offered through a university, like many of the other online classes on Coursera. Instead it will be offered by Deeplearning.ai , an online learning company founded by none other than Ng himself. Ng and Coursera are not the only players trying to make AI more accessible to businesses and consumers.

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