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

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But with corporations unable to hire and hold on to enough workers to fill jobs in IT, cyber security and software development, a shift may be underway. Prime Minister—reported in January raising $44 million to bring apprenticeships in data, software engineering, digital marketing and project management to the U.S.

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Profile of Asbury Park (NJ) Superintendent Sancha Gray

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We share these tools with parents so that they can reinforce the strategies at home. School leaders used specific strategies to ensure that these volunteers could support instruction and help improve reading outcomes effectively. MobyMax —Digital personalized learning software ? Autodesk Inventor CAD Software.

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2,589 Classic MS-DOS Video Games You Can Play From Your Browser

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The presciently-named Beneath Apple Manor was published in 1978, but MS-DOS releases within the archive continued until 1999, even as console systems from Sega, Sony, Microsoft, and more found mass appeal. And all available to play right from a web browser through the miracle of software emulation. Wolfenstein. Paperboy 2 , Joust.

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Edtech Bootstrapping 101: A Survival Story

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As a former video game designer for Sony Playstation, I’m pretty sure this is going to be easy. This time, we validate ideas with our end users before developing the software. February 2015 We bootstrap software development and curriculum production by selling camps and weekend coding sessions at our brick-and-mortar academy.

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

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There’s just a giant gap there,” said Sean Gallagher, executive director of the Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy at Northeastern University. It usually manages to fill just two or three of those positions, Soni said. Soni is more blunt.

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Where to Find Money for Your School’s Edtech Purchases

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For example, the Entertainment Software Association Foundation has a program ( application from last year here ) that opens up in 2017 for schools and districts looking to fund technology, including computer and video games, for students between the ages of seven and 18.

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Software & Online ACCELERATE LEARNING STEMSCOPES SCIENCE ( www.stemscopes.com ) Accelerate Learning announced a new platform using the best of CNN’s digital content to create a new science education product. Sony ( pro.sony.com ) is adding five new WUXGA resolution models to its family of laser light source projectors.

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