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How AI is changing special education

Neo LMS

Some of the outcomes include: ASD children that played with Kaspar as a pair demonstrated improved social interaction with each other once Kaspar had been removed from the game. With a hefty price-tag at $5,000, however, Milo is currently only available to the most well-resourced ADS and special school programs.

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Impatient for workers, businesses help students take college shortcuts

The Hechinger Report

Many of his friends took the same shortcut to good jobs at companies including Sony and Lockheed Martin. The skills academy at which Seck teaches is run by Synchrony, a national financial services company headquartered in Stamford. Synchrony is among a growing number of companies getting involved in job skills training.

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10 Things To Know about the Future of Blockchain in Education

Doug Levin

It is for all these reasons that many of the experts at the Blockchain Summit predicted that companies and institutions new to blockchain would first deploy private (permissioned) blockchains , at least until they are more comfortable with the technology.

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Project Based Learning

The Electric Educator

Several very large companies (Nokia, Sony, Philips, Rolls-Royce) are having their interns and management candidates participate in online business scenario "tournaments" as part of their training. Here''s an interesting article from smartplanet.com demonstrating an innovative use of distance learning technology.

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ClassIn Launches its World-Class Teaching and Learning Platform in the United States

eSchool News

Offering Strategic Hardware Solutions: ClassIn X transforms traditional classrooms into outcome-driven hybrid learning spaces through an IoT hardware package that digitizes the physical classroom. The Series D company has raised more than $500 million and is backed by Hillhouse and Tencent, among others.

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Education Technology and the History of the Future of Credentialing

Hack Education

Throughout the year, the Department of Education also took steps to strengthen the oversight of accreditors, adding requirements regarding data that they had to report to the government and to the public as well as pressuring accreditors to do more to improve “student outcomes” at the schools they monitored. Jobs for Grads.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Inside Higher Ed : “ DeVry Parent Company Makes Pledges to Students.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Chalkbeat investigates the Indiana Virtual School : “As students signed up, online school hired barely any teachers – but founder’s company charged it millions.”