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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. According to its open-source playbook , Adobe teaches this so that apprentices can “learn quickly from their mistakes and build confidence.”

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The Cause That Unites Chief IT and Academic Officers

Edsurge

DECODING DIGITAL LITERACY: Ask 450 educators to define “digital literacy,” and you’ll likely get dozens of answers. That’s what an Adobe-commission survey , published in partnership with futurist Bryan Alexander and the New Media Consortium, revealed. Solution: offer happier prompts?). Think about it like a car. From the Vendor Hall.

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Adapting to the New Classroom

techlearning

Diagnostic products and software systems that target specific areas of learning for improvement can help students find success, freeing educators to help every learner reach their personal best within one classroom. Here are a few schools that are getting high marks for adapting to this changing educational landscape. PowerSchool SIS

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Federal relief money boosted community colleges, but now it’s going away

The Hechinger Report

So starting in March, Raritan used part of the $25 million it had received from the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF), which Congress passed as part of broader pandemic aid, to hire two financial coaches and set up an eight-person call center to address the fire hose of questions pouring in from current and prospective students.

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November 14 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

ANNOUNCEMENTS The 2011 Global Education Conference has begun! In it''s second year, this amazing five-day, 24-hour-a-day event helps educators and students connect with each other and with global education programs all over the world. Come sign up--it''s free! The session schedule is up in all 36 time zones. The Classroom 2.0

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

(National) Education Politics. ” “Not An Advocate for Students or the Public Interest” – historian Sherman Dorn on “ Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education.” billion from the Department of Education. ” (State and Local) Education Politics. Education in the Courts.