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eLearning Brothers Expands Family with Two Corporate Training Acquisitions

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Customers include PepsiCo, Bangkok Airways and Sony. Customers of Edulence’s learning management system, Knowledgelink, include Lincoln Financial Group and AARP Services. He says government-mandated regulatory compliance training provides reliable recurring revenue for his company. billion.

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

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Roughly 200 local employers, including Kaiser Permanente, OSISoft, Sony and Typeform, have also participated. One group devised a way to create an autonomous system of boats to clean up trash in the nearby river delta. One group proposes using them for sidewalk maintenance work; another for traffic intersection safety assessments.

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Can Virtual Reality Improve Education?

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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

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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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Kaspar is a social robot developed by the University of Hertfordshire’s Adaptive Systems Research Group, with the specific intention of developing a learning companion for ASD students. In 2015, the robot was also used to develop “autobiographical” programs used to train ISS crews. Here are a few examples: Kaspar.

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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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Where to Find Money for Your School’s Edtech Purchases

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But for others, the pecuniary need may be more immediate—replacing a group of iPads that got broken, for example. But sites like DonorsChoose and Digital Wish are only where the money train begins. It eventually passed —a total of $95 million. There’s money to be found on that site.

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