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OPINION: How schools can find common ground in an era of education wars

The Hechinger Report

At the same time, McKinsey & Company estimates that automation and artificial intelligence will displace between 400 and 800 million jobs globally by 2030. And traditional public schools are facing increased competition from charter schools and independent schools.

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

Edsurge

In a world where the largest software vendors like Apple and Google don’t write the apps, we are at a tipping point as the worldwide gap widens between skills delivered by the current educational systems and those required by the digital economy. The job market will continue to segregate into low-skill- low-pay and high-skill-high-pay jobs.

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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

Edsurge

The growth of educational platform companies such as Coursera and 2U is being driven in part by a surge in demand for certificate programs and “alternative credential” offerings. And major companies and industry groups are increasingly getting into the credentialing game, exemplified by firms such as IBM and Google.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. ASU Global Freshman Academy, Coursera and edX have taken the StraighterLine model—and pushed it even further.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” IHE blogger Joshua Kim offers “25 Million Reasons Why LinkedIn / Microsoft Will Buy Coursera.” Economy by 2030.” ” From the Google blog : “ Google Science Fair 2018 : Resources for educators to get ideas flowing.” ” “ Cyber Charters in at Least 5 States Face Closure.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ Coursera Removes Biometric Identity Verification Using Keystroke Matching,” Class Central reports. An update on Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng’s employment status in the HR section below. ” Ng is, of course, the co-founder of the MOOC startup Coursera.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” For those keeping track of how ed-tech is intertwined in all this, here’s a list of Yuri Milner ’s education investments : 17zuoye, Remind, Coursera, Clever, Codecademy, ClassDojo, and General Assembly. “ What will universities look like in 2030? Nice timing to promote “picting” in the classroom.).