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Tech Apprenticeships Shift the Costs of Higher Ed From Students to Employers

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For decades, companies have offered more or less the same deal to Americans in search of office jobs: You pay for your own higher education and skills training, and then we’ll consider employing you. The model combines paid on-the-job training with classroom instruction. Members include Walmart, Sony and T-Mobile.

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Can Virtual Reality Improve Education?

EdTech4Beginners

This tactic has been popular among military training applications for quite some time. If virtual reality is reliable enough to train our armed forces, is there any reason not to implement the same technique at educational institutions across the world? Advancements in VR Technology. Advantages of VR Learning.

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Impatient for workers, businesses help students take college shortcuts

The Hechinger Report

Many of his friends took the same shortcut to good jobs at companies including Sony and Lockheed Martin. When her own son left college after a semester, she gave him the option of several workforce training programs. He chose the nonprofit Per Scholas, which offers tuition-free information technology training.

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Profile of Asbury Park (NJ) Superintendent Sancha Gray

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We have staff, we have a computer-based monolingual English program that parents can log in and access. We believe if we provide for our students—give them the tools that are necessary, give them access and opportunity—they will be successful and rise to the occasion. Now they do. We offer bilingual instruction and GED classes.

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Impatient with universities’ slow pace of change, employers go around them

The Hechinger Report

The courses employers have been helping to create don’t just teach skills students need to work for Microsoft, Amazon or Google, like the highly specialized training classes that are longtime industry standards — Linux System Administration, for example, or Office 365 Fundamentals. Soni is more blunt. Choose as many as you like.

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?Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning

Edsurge

Take LiveEdu , for example, a Y Combinator-backed online learning company that touts itself as being the “next-gen Lynda.com,” referring to a platform that offers online courses and skills training. Investors might be less interested in buying and trading tokens for a streaming service that they can access for regular cash.

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Where to Find Money for Your School’s Edtech Purchases

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But sites like DonorsChoose and Digital Wish are only where the money train begins. If you’d rather work with a corporation, consider applying for an award from the likes of the Sony Corporation of America, which gives away funding to various academic institutions throughout the year. There’s money to be found on that site.

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