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

Edsurge

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. More companies are assuming the costs and risks of preparing people for entry-level technology roles by offering apprenticeships.

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

The Hechinger Report

Microsoft employees in Redmond, Washington. With a huge shortage of college graduates in data and computer science, tech companies are taking matters into their own hands and providing education directly to prospective tech workers. Photo: Stuart Isett for The Washington Post via Getty Images.

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IPEVO VZ-R HDMI/USB Dual Mode 8MP Document Camera

Kathy Schrock

Zoom Microsoft Teams Google Hangouts/Meet GoToMeeting Webex Skype IPEVO VZ-R HDMI/USB plugged directly into a projector The IPEVO VZ-R HDMI/USB document camera can also easily be used to showcase items, live drawings, and book pages to the entire class, even without a computer! 3.07” x 1.57” x 11.42” (7.8 x 18.9” (270 x 480mm) [16:9] 13.5”

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WHAT’S NEW

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BENCHMARK EDUCATION COMPANY ADVANCEALL ( benchmarkeducation.com ) Benchmark Education Company (BEC) released Advance ALL, a new series motivating students to read with literary and informational reading text sets. POWERSCHOOL & MICROSOFT ( www.microsoft.com ) & ( www.powerschool.com ) Microsoft Corp.

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Education Technology and the History of the Future of Credentialing

Hack Education

“Conflicts of interest” persist, needless to say, and there are multiple think-tanks and companies eager to have a role in deciding “who counts” as an accreditor and “what counts” as a “real” post-secondary education. Jobs for Grads. Preferably from Stanford.) emphasis mine).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Marketwatch : “One company will now handle close to half of all student-loan payments.” The 74 interviewed Sal Khan on personalized learning and his goal to create a “ global diploma ,” which he says his company can “uniquely” do. ” The Business of Financial Aid. ” Testing.