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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

They expect the same flexibility, mobility and always-on services they get with everything from travel and entertainment, also from educational providers. In Ontario, Canada, for instance, the somewhat shocking facts are: 99% of all Ontario elementary and secondary students have access to computers at school. Skills gap.

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OPINION: Post-pandemic, let’s develop true education-to-workforce pathways to secure a better future

The Hechinger Report

Delivering on the promise of pathways means supporting every student with individualized college and career advising, expanding curricular options to include instruction in the skills needed in fast-growing industries and providing opportunities for earning college credit and industry credentials in high school.

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Beyond Bootcamps: How Employers Can Help Nontraditional Learners Succeed

Edsurge

Although everyone wants magic solutions that can transform high-school dropouts into Google engineers in six months, this rarely happens. When you’re new to an industry, it can be easy to take these experiences personally or feel like you’re alone in making mistakes. Usually, when new hires succeed, so does the company.

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

Instead, he bounced from one unfulfilling job to the next in the hospitality and restaurant industries. Analysts say that this “degree inflation,” as they call it, has shrunk opportunities for upward mobility for Americans without four-year degrees. workforce that does not have a four-year college degree.” to $11 per hour.

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Education's Online Futures

Hack Education

It has shaped the administrative imaginary – and that in turn has shaped how schools have built capacity (or much more likely outsourced capacity ) and defined capacity altogether – notably in response to what’s been consistently framed as the challenge of access and the necessity of choice. ECOT refuses to pay.

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