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It’s Time to Reboot Our Thinking About Adult Learners in a Digitally Transformed World

Edsurge

In Coursera’s second quarter 2021 results reported last week, the company reported revenue growth of 38 percent on the strength of global demand for reskilling, and “sustained demand for career-oriented professional certificates targeted at entry-level digital jobs.”

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‘Digital skills gap’ threatens innovation

eSchool News

There are just not enough people with the right digital skills to enable the transformation that companies are seeking,” said Salil Gunashekar , a research leader and associate director at RAND Europe who focuses on science and technology policy. trillion in potential growth by 2028 if the digital skills gap isn’t addressed.

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NAEP Scores Show a Long Road to Academic Recovery. Edtech Can Help Shorten It.

Edsurge

Recent headlines suggest it will take until 2028 for students to recover from these pandemic-related achievement declines. We should equip teachers with tools like DreamBox Math and DreamBox Reading (which my company created) to assess how a student is thinking. Others say it will take decades.

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016, 2028), legend has it that you are a person who is family oriented, you enjoy family get-togethers, indulge in family traditions, and you thrive in group work. If you were born in the Goat year (e.g.,1931, Zodiac animal: Monkey Monkeys are associated with long life and longevity.

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Ten jobs that are safe from robots

The Hechinger Report

Over the next decade, at least one-third of the tasks in about 60 percent of jobs could be automated, according to research by consulting firm McKinsey & Company. The notion that we can train someone in 2018 for job requirements in 2028 isn’t realistic.”. If you’re a doctor, you should aim to be an even smarter doctor.

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Will the Rodriguez family’s college dreams survive the end of affirmative action?

The Hechinger Report

Some have cited advice from legal counsel in declining to release the racial and ethnic composition for the class of 2028. He now owns a trucking company. Several said that they would not have such data available even internally until after the admissions cycle wraps up next year.

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The Business Benefits of Video Conferencing

ViewSonic Education

Online meetings have become critical to many companies’ collaboration strategies. Move a company more effectively towards its goals . billion in 2028. . Below are some of the main reasons companies are using video conferencing more than ever before: . Leveraging VC allows companies to be more efficient.?Better

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