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Dear Liberal Arts Major: STEM Companies Need Your Skills to Grow

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Her career journey, which led her to Coursera, a startup that develops online courses and educational programs, highlights a trend that has become more pronounced in the last few years. Liberal Arts Can Be the Key to Scaling In fact, at many STEM companies, employees with liberal arts backgrounds are now also considered keys to growth.

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A Case For Flipping Learning—Without Videos

Edsurge

STEM has always been lecture heavy,” she says, “and that's the big difference.” A group of biology researchers from the University of Washington have tested Barba’s theory that active learning improves outcomes for STEM students in particular. He also points out that despite growing research, more is needed.

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From Mexico to China: Why the World is Interested in the United States Edtech Market

Edsurge

He says the tools from Spain have quality content for Spanish speakers, and for English tools, tech providers such as Pearson and Mcgraw Hill have sufficed in the past, but he is looking for more STEM learning tools now. “I Limin Chen “They want adaptive learning tools, STEM products and learning management systems,” says Chen. “If

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An Index Of Online Courses For Teachers: Summer 2015

TeachThought - Learn better.

University of Houston System via Coursera. Commonwealth Education Trust via Coursera. A Beginner’s Guide to Writing in English for University Study. Commonwealth Education Trust via Coursera. University of Oregon via Coursera. University of California, Irvine via Coursera. Preparing for Uni.

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When universities slap their names on for-profit coding boot camps

The Hechinger Report

In order to complete her homework assignments, she spent hours each night re-teaching herself the material, with help from Coursera and YouTube tutorials. For instance, the company edX, which offers more than 200 boot camps at about 50 colleges, partnered with Gallup to study the outcomes of its boot camp students.

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Millennials: The Straw That Will Stir Higher Education’s Next Disruption

EdNews Daily

Internship and work-study programs have a long history and are common at many institutions. Another is the rise of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) or online instructional platforms like edX, Coursera, or Udacity. In some ways, this is nothing new.

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Campus Closures. What’s Tech Got to Do With It?

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The National Center for Educational Statistics projects that enrollments will increase a bit over the next decade—although there will be underlying changes, primarily part-time, multi-institutional, working-student and other so-called “nontraditional” modes of study. Why are we losing campuses?