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eLearning Brothers Expands Family with Two Corporate Training Acquisitions

Edsurge

To support that pursuit, eLearning Brothers has acquired two companies: course-building tools provider Trivantis and learning management system provider Edulence. Customers include PepsiCo, Bangkok Airways and Sony. Customers of Edulence’s learning management system, Knowledgelink, include Lincoln Financial Group and AARP Services.

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Sony launches high-end visual display technology

eSchool News

New scalable system has 99 percent black surface area for high contrast, high resolution, immersive visuals. At InfoComm 2016, Sony will highlight its display capabilities in a big way, focusing on upgrading the landscape for large-scale visual entertainment.

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

Edsurge

It’s a system that Lee wants to scale across the country, to help other cities tap into the local education and business communities to develop their own talent pipeline. Roughly 200 local employers, including Kaiser Permanente, OSISoft, Sony and Typeform, have also participated. Altogether sixteen projects are on display.

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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. Members include Walmart, Sony and T-Mobile.

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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?

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How AI is changing special education

Neo LMS

Kaspar is a social robot developed by the University of Hertfordshire’s Adaptive Systems Research Group, with the specific intention of developing a learning companion for ASD students. In 2015, the robot was also used to develop “autobiographical” programs used to train ISS crews. Here are a few examples: Kaspar.

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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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