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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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So the program doesn’t allow them to look at their smartphones or personal computers while in the building. Newkirk believes that his model will work for other STEM fields, including chemistry and physics. Erals Delao was one of the students working through the program on the day I visited.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” A MOOC consortium , that is, with member institutions Davidson College , Colgate University , Hamilton College , and Wellesley College. Google announced “$2 million for CS & STEM education for aspiring women and student technologists.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). News/Raytheon STEM Index recorded a slight rise in hiring, education and general interest in technology and engineering over last year, while math education and general interest in science declined. ” Via The Atlantic : “The Complex Data on Girls in STEM.”