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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training. The hope is that if what would normally take 10,000 hours could be shortened to 1,000, and be done via methods that are more affordable and accessible, many more people can become experts. If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.”

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Examples Of Innovation In Higher Ed–With A Caution

TeachThought - Learn better.

And just as universities haven’t been “job training facilities,” more immediately, neither has K-12. When we seek to train students, we have to ask ourselves what we’re training them for, and make sure we can live with the consequences.” The rub comes when universities seek to revise themselves. And iTunesU. Which is dumb.

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20 years in e-learning

Mark Smithers

In June of this year it was twenty years since I set up my first web server for delivering e-learning courses. We might just need to provide a bit of training. It’s no wonder there is no widespread adoption of e-learning and edtech across the institution. They’ll produce stuff. They were wrong. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

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20 years in e-learning

Mark Smithers

In June of this year it was twenty years since I set up my first web server for delivering e-learning courses. We might just need to provide a bit of training. It’s no wonder there is no widespread adoption of e-learning and edtech across the institution. They’ll produce stuff. They were wrong. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

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COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Digital Blending of Working and Learning

Edsurge

E-commerce purchases of all types have surged. This is already evident in the latest national job-market data, which shows a 15 percent unemployment rate for high school graduates with no college and 13 percent for those with some college or an associate degree—compared to 7 percent for individuals with a bachelor’s or higher.

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Worldwide, Online, and Free - The Library 2.013 Conference Starts Friday

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Karla Pobke Coordinator Personalised Learning Born Accessible STEM: Making Sure Accessibility is Not Just an Afterthought - Anh Bui Director of Product Strategy for Global Literacy Project-Based Learning: You''re almost doing it already!

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