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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training. If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” Navy, and the company’s first mission was to train sailors in information technology (IT) support, so they could fix any computer or network problem that a crew at sea might encounter.

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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.” Reduce the college dropout rate to closer to 10% (than the current 40%+).

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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

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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

Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Playful Learning: Games and the Future of STEM - Danny Fain, Teacher in Residence Redefining STEM Rubrics for the 21’st Century: It’s all about mastery!

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