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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

According to UNESCO, global demand for higher education is expected to grow from 100 million students currently to 250+ million by 2025. While students may have an almost subconscious ability with social media, many are quite dysfunctional when it comes to leveraging online tools for hard, in depth research and learning.

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When a Pandemic Upends Labor Markets, Will a New Workforce ISA Fund Work?

Edsurge

A self-taught programmer, he found on-and-off work building websites, managing social media and handling e-commerce for dental offices, toy shops and other clients. Workforce, Interrupted SDWP officials initially hoped that by 2025, repayments from graduates will be enough to cover the cost of offering ISAs to future students.

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Is the hardest job in education convincing parents to send their kids to a San Francisco public school?

The Hechinger Report

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, public school enrollment in the United States had been trending downward , thanks to birth-rate declines and more restrictive immigration policies, but the decreases rarely exceeded half a percentage point. Not this specific conversation, of course, but ones like it. Often, they fail.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

“To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. Of course, teachers have utilized social media sites for years to launch various side-hustles — speaking gigs and “ brand ambassadorships ”, for example — as well as to facilitate their main hustle — you know, teaching.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Verge : “ Juul has 60 days to prove it can keep its e-cigs away from kids, FDA warns.” ” (Also from Hill : “Timeline of e-Literate Coverage of Blackboard Learn Ultra.”). Edsurge on a new report from Common Sense Media : “ Teens Know Social Media Is Manipulative.