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Top e-learning trends to keep an eye on in 2020

Neo LMS

With that in mind, it’s important to keep an eye on the myriad of digital education trends that are currently shaping up the industry. What’s more, the adoption of interactive videos is creating rippling effects in the e-learning industry. This drives learner engagement, boosts retention rates and reduces the course dropout rates.

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

.” When, or if, this doomsday scenario arises for higher education, it will be a combination of the challenges we have examined thus far – costs of “campus-based” education, failing revenue streams, and expensive dropouts. A denial of disruption contributes the slow change at many universities. Skills gap.

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Edtech, Equity, and Innovation: A Critical Look in the Mirror

Digital Promise

When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories. A worksheet on a screen may save trees, but it will not inherently provide research-based strategies to support every unique learner.

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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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A battle at one university is a case study in why higher education is so slow to change

The Hechinger Report

It’s a revealing example of how people inside higher education often bristle at adopting strategies from the private sector, and why colleges and universities continue to be slow to change. Credit: Steven Vargo for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Steven Vargo for The Hechinger Report. Corporations are different. That has changed.

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Facing a white-collar worker shortage, American companies seek a blue-collar solution

The Hechinger Report

The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on?inequality

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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.

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