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Impatient with universities’ slow pace of change, employers go around them

The Hechinger Report

The event was new, too. The courses employers have been helping to create don’t just teach skills students need to work for Microsoft, Amazon or Google, like the highly specialized training classes that are longtime industry standards — Linux System Administration, for example, or Office 365 Fundamentals. Soni is more blunt.

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This Workforce Partnership Trains Tech Talent. Can It Boost Civic Engagement Too?

Edsurge

Just as the former auto plant has been reinvented, today’s event offers a glimpse into Derick Lee’s vision for how cities will evolve, and who will lead that transformation. Roughly 200 local employers, including Kaiser Permanente, OSISoft, Sony and Typeform, have also participated. Altogether sixteen projects are on display.

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Meet Some Heroes at This Week's Connected Educator Cafe Sessions

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The format is informal and the goal is for you to meet and get to know some of your online heroes, as well as to recap learnings from the day’s events and to look ahead to what’s next in CEM. This week we continue our evening Connected Cafe sessions nightly from 7:30 to 8:30 PM US-Eastern Daylight Time. EdD student. Presenter.

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Week of May 1, 2011 - Live, Interactive, and Free Webinars in Elluminate

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The time of the events below will show up automatically in your own time zone when you are registered in LearnCentral and when you have chosen your time zone in your profile, or you can check the new event time converter on the event page. link] TECH TALK TUESDAYS: PHISHING, SCAMS, ONLINE SECURITY AND MORE!

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WHAT’S NEW

techlearning

Stemscopes Science challenges students to innovate, create, and problem solve while connecting them to real-world events and issues that affect their lives. EDTHENA ( www.edthena.com ) Edthena has developed a one-click video recording and uploading solution for Google Chrome. This release will also now include support for Google Drive.

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Five Ethical Considerations For Using Virtual Reality with Children and Adolescents

MindShift

The tragic events of Sept. Supporters of the experience see it as a path towards empathy for the victims and as an immersive recreation of a pivotal historical event. All the major players, including Microsoft, Sony, Samsung, Google and an HTC and Valve partnership are jostling for the consumer headset market.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Ed-Tech Events. ” Inside Higher Ed also looks at how data is being talked about at the higher ed ed-tech event. Edsurge is also holding an event this week. Via Vice : “ Google Docs Is Randomly Flagging Files for Violating Its Terms of Service.” Educause is holding its annual conference this week.