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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

Blended and online learning is increasingly in demand by students. They expect the same flexibility, mobility and always-on services they get with everything from travel and entertainment, also from educational providers. Read more: Why blended learning will become an educational norm. Read more: Will AI replace teachers?

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OPINION: As we eye post-pandemic life, it’s time to unclog the pipeline between education and work

The Hechinger Report

Case in point: Mobile, Alabama, where civic organizations, industry associations and churches successfully leaned on public schools and higher education institutions to improve student success rates. Then it asked employers to come up with action plans to coordinate industry needs with talent production. “If They had to.

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OPINION: Post-pandemic, let’s develop true education-to-workforce pathways to secure a better future

The Hechinger Report

Delivering on the promise of pathways means supporting every student with individualized college and career advising, expanding curricular options to include instruction in the skills needed in fast-growing industries and providing opportunities for earning college credit and industry credentials in high school.

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Beyond Bootcamps: How Employers Can Help Nontraditional Learners Succeed

Edsurge

Although everyone wants magic solutions that can transform high-school dropouts into Google engineers in six months, this rarely happens. When you’re new to an industry, it can be easy to take these experiences personally or feel like you’re alone in making mistakes. This doesn’t have to be hard.

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Let Evidence Guide the Solutions to Student Absenteeism

edWeb.net

Chronically absent middle schoolers have lower grades and test scores that increase dropout potential. For example, if people learn that their neighbors are spending less on energy, they are likely to reduce their energy use. Chronic high school absenteeism affects grades, test scores, and graduation and college enrollment rates.

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Instead, he bounced from one unfulfilling job to the next in the hospitality and restaurant industries. He had been at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for four months.

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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

Edsurge

They only back companies led by college dropouts and people who never studied in higher ed. And it turns out 11 of them have gone on to start companies now valued at more than a billion dollars, making them what are called unicorns in the industry. They founded a venture capital firm called the 1517 Fund.

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