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eLearning Brothers Expands Family with Two Corporate Training Acquisitions

Edsurge

The game explains why certain tools—door badge readers, for example—are government mandated and illustrates cybersecurity best practices to employ at work. Customers include PepsiCo, Bangkok Airways and Sony. He says government-mandated regulatory compliance training provides reliable recurring revenue for his company.

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Tech Apprenticeships Shift the Costs of Higher Ed From Students to Employers

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For decades, companies have offered more or less the same deal to Americans in search of office jobs: You pay for your own higher education and skills training, and then we’ll consider employing you. The model combines paid on-the-job training with classroom instruction. Members include Walmart, Sony and T-Mobile.

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Can Virtual Reality Improve Education?

EdTech4Beginners

This tactic has been popular among military training applications for quite some time. If virtual reality is reliable enough to train our armed forces, is there any reason not to implement the same technique at educational institutions across the world? Advancements in VR Technology.

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Impatient for workers, businesses help students take college shortcuts

The Hechinger Report

Many of his friends took the same shortcut to good jobs at companies including Sony and Lockheed Martin. When her own son left college after a semester, she gave him the option of several workforce training programs. He chose the nonprofit Per Scholas, which offers tuition-free information technology training.

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How AI is changing special education

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Here are a few examples: Kaspar. It replaced Sony’s AIBO robot in the niche, and elite robot sporting event known as The Standard Platform League, it is also being tested by Mitsubishi as a replacement for customer service agents in its banks.

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

The Hechinger Report

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. It’s funny how this pendulum swings,” said Eaton. “We

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?Blockchain, Bitcoin and the Tokenization of Learning

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Take LiveEdu , for example, a Y Combinator-backed online learning company that touts itself as being the “next-gen Lynda.com,” referring to a platform that offers online courses and skills training. Doug Levin For all of the hype around ICOs, there’s still plenty of skepticism—and examples of fraud.

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