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eLearning Brothers Expands Family with Two Corporate Training Acquisitions

Edsurge

Customers include PepsiCo, Bangkok Airways and Sony. He says government-mandated regulatory compliance training provides reliable recurring revenue for his company. Scivally predicts there will be more consolidation among companies that offer corporate training services. Founded in 1999 and based in Deerfield Beach, Fla.,

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

Edsurge

For decades, companies have offered more or less the same deal to Americans in search of office jobs: You pay for your own higher education and skills training, and then we’ll consider employing you. The model combines paid on-the-job training with classroom instruction. they have mostly been reserved for the skilled trades.

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Can Virtual Reality Improve Education?

EdTech4Beginners

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

Edsurge

Roughly 200 local employers, including Kaiser Permanente, OSISoft, Sony and Typeform, have also participated. Shuffling along the stations are adult professionals—among them city officials, including the mayor of San Leandro, and representatives from Google, Sony and Wells Fargo—who offer guidance and poke holes in the projects.

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How AI is changing special education

Neo LMS

The robot also has sensors, cameras, and facial recognition software to capture a child’s responses and evaluate progress. In 2015, the robot was also used to develop “autobiographical” programs used to train ISS crews. Arguably the most successful commercial robot so far, there are over 5,000 Naos operating across the world.

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Profile of Asbury Park (NJ) Superintendent Sancha Gray

techlearning

AMERICORPS VOLUNTEERS IMPROVE READING OUTCOMES IN DES MOINES (IA) PUBLIC SCHOOLS To support the district’s mission to improve student literacy proficiency, the district trained AmeriCorps members to deliver the offline instruction provided by Lexia Reading Core5. MobyMax —Digital personalized learning software ?

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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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