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How colleges are adapting to the future of education

Linways Technologies

If that seems too far fetched, just think about the number of jobs that was created in the last few decades, like social media manager, drone operator, mobile app developer, system admin etc. Most of the jobs that today’s students will do in the future does not even exist yet.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Indeed, young people prefer learning from YouTube than from textbooks — according, ironically, to Pearson. Although YouTube was founded in 2005, it has seen an explosion in growth this decade, in part from the ubiquity of mobile devices: anytime, anywhere television-watching. Coursera has raised over $310 million.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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monthly subsidies toward cellular phone service or mobile broadband. ” Codecademy, Edsurge contends, is now a competitor to Coursera and Udacity. Via Business Insider : “Online learning may be the future of education – we compared 4 platforms that are leading the way.”