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More high school grads are rejecting 4-year pathways

eSchool News

In a time when industry leaders grapple with talent shortages and nearly six million Americans remain unemployed , this survey emphasizes the critical importance of enhancing the education and engagement of our future workforce.

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Challenges in Curation: Successfully Integrating Open Educational Resources in the Classroom

Digital Promise

As the moderator of a SXSWedu panel covering the Challenges of Curation in K-12 Schools, I held several brainstorm calls with the panelists, sent them thought-starter questions, solicited feedback from teacher and librarian contacts in the industry, and thought I was as ready as I could be. Define OERs.

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OPINION: Ask not what can be done with a humanities degree

The Hechinger Report

The workforce data in this new American Academy of Arts & Sciences report is the perfect complement to individual storytelling in helping today’s humanities majors think through “What are you going to do with that?” Ann Ardis is dean of George Mason University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Racism, Consumerism, and a Conversation With My Son About the Future of Diversity

Edsurge

But outside of mentions of slavery being abolished with the adoption of the 13th Amendment in 1865, where, in our widely produced and purchased K-12 curriculums, do we extensively discuss the economic and industrial successes and innovations that African Americans and other races contributed to society?

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SCORM – Why does it matter and why do you need it?

Kitaboo on EdTech

However, online training content cannot exist in silos; rather it has to work in synchrony with the learning management system, desktop storage, and knowledge bases. Therefore, it becomes important to bring all content formats together so that there is smooth communication among all the eLearning products.

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OPINION: With college enrollment tumbling, new strategies are urgently needed

The Hechinger Report

The result: fewer Americans will have the skills needed to strengthen our democracy, advance our knowledge-based economy and solve the challenges of our time — from climate change to life-threatening diseases to racial inequities. Unless they bring in more students, colleges will struggle financially, and some could shut their doors.

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How colleges are adapting to the future of education

Linways Technologies

So here are some of the approaches and adaptations the institutions are currently relying on to address the shifting trends and needs of both the industry and the future. So as a result, we are now seeing more skill based educational practises in colleges. Choice based learning , extra-curricular skill acquisition programs, etc.