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How to Become an Online Teacher Abroad

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Online teachers have to perform their job and meet the needs of their students virtually.That being the case, success in online teaching requires a slightly different set of skills besides the mainstream teaching skills. The onus lies in finding out what skills companies are looking for in online teachers and working on having them.

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

Edsurge

“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.

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?Filling the Other Skills Gap

Edsurge

And in the market of companies tackling the infamous employment gap between willing workers and open jobs, this maxim appears correct. The collection of edtech companies aimed at prepping educated, but still underprepared workers represents a virtual stampede of unicorns. This dichotomy is not lost on investors.

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Will this semester forever alter college? No, but some virtual tools will stick around

The Hechinger Report

If anything, what people are mistaking now for online education — long class meetings in videoconference rooms, professors in their bathrobes, do-it-yourself tools made of rubber bands and cardboard — appears to be making them less, not more, open to it. But many will figure out what to do and how to kick and how to stay afloat.”.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Not really ed-tech-related, except for all those companies saying they’re “Uber for education.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” ” Education in the Courts.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 10 Edition)

Doug Levin

" Tagged on: March 10, 2017 Drop it like it's bot: Brands have cooled on chatbots | Digiday → Many companies have begun dropping their bots, saying that they don't do what they were supposed to: “I would call it overpromising." He anticipates needing to purchase around 2,000 to meet that goal.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

Hack Education

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. ” But these wild proclamations – wishful thinking , no doubt – tended to overlook the realities of mobile technology and education. .”

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