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eLearning Brothers Expands Family with Two Corporate Training Acquisitions

Edsurge

The United States may not have had robot invaders from space in mind when drafting federal cybersecurity standards for the utility industry. And yet, a robot invasion is the very premise for a game that aims to teach utilities employees those standards and why they’re important. Founded in 1999 and based in Deerfield Beach, Fla.,

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

Edsurge

The tall ceilings, roof-top windows, exposed steel beams and air ducts hints at its industrial past. Roughly 200 local employers, including Kaiser Permanente, OSISoft, Sony and Typeform, have also participated. . — A red staircase next to a Home Depot in an ordinary strip mall leads to an equally nondescript door.

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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. They also practice skills in the hot fields of 3D printing and robotics. “We Seck instead learned to code in a one-year programming course run by a nonprofit, where he stuck around for an extra year to master more advanced skills.

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WHAT’S NEW

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Spectrum Industries ( www.spectrumfurniture.com ) announced the introduction of the Pivot Workstation. Sony ( pro.sony.com ) is adding five new WUXGA resolution models to its family of laser light source projectors. Omnicharge currently powers 50+ universities across the United States.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

OpenSecrets.org on how the student loan industry and higher ed institutions spend their lobbying dollars : “The politics behind your college and how you pay for it.” ” Via Techcrunch : “ Sony wants to digitize education records using the blockchain.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” The tech industry is still bullish on the business of tech training nonetheless. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via Techcrunch : “Sony reboots Aibo with AI and extra kawaii.” ” The $1700 robot dog also requires a subscription plan. Via Techcrunch : “Sony reboots Aibo with AI and extra kawaii.”

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

I’ve also written a separate article listing some of the various events that happened in the for-profit college industry this year – closures, lawsuits, sales, and the like. ” That’s because the stories told this year to keep us hustling and to keep up imagining a certain kind of future are almost all about robots.