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As Corporate World Moves Toward Curated ‘Microlearning,’ Higher Ed Must Adapt

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“Businesses today have to be more agile and have to be able to pivot—access to content needs to be very rapid,” says Lori Bradley, executive vice president for global talent management at PVH Corp, a publicly- traded fashion and apparel company with 35,000 employees. Similarly, LinkedIn’s $1.5

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Is Creativity a Skill?

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From personal experience, the most creative moments rarely happen on a conference call, in a meeting, or with sharpies, sticky notes and a whiteboard. Of course, not all creative ideas are good ones.) Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com: Creativity is a soft skill. There is serendipity in the spontaneity. (Of Why—or why not?

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The Top Ed-Tech Trends (Aren't 'Tech')

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It’s a look back at what’s happened over the course of each year, not simply – to counter that totally overused phrase from hockey player Wayne Gretsky’s dad – to “skate to where the puck is going,” but to examine where it has been. .” “Disrupt.” ” “Unbundle.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via WaPo’s Valerie Strauss : “ Trump ’s rather weird meeting with the 2017 Teachers of the Year.” ” The Trump Administration is calling it “ restoring Internet freedom ,” because of f **g course. Jeff Fernandez, the co-founder of the online learning company Grovo , has resigned.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

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” I’ve looked at how for-profit colleges , MOOCs , and learn-to-code companies have tapped into these narratives in order to justify their products and services. Robots are much more ideal as workers, because of course they cannot unionize. These have all been separate articles in each series. Bootcamp or Bust.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Bob Thorpe, is proposing a far-reaching law in Arizona, House Bill 2120, banning virtually every college event, activity or course which discusses social justice , skin privilege, or racial equality. ” They’re suing the company. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ ACICS -Accredited Colleges Meet Federal Deadline.”

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