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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says. Students engaged with an Acuitus training program that combines computer-based learning with human mentors to compress 10 years of experience and learning into 5 months.

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The Trends and Challenges Shaping Technology Adoption In Schools

MindShift

As with other education buzzwords, many schools believe they are providing authentic learning, but they don’t offer the apprenticeships , vocational training and relationships with outside experts that often characterize work that carries larger life lessons. Teachers are becoming more comfortable with this idea of “blending learning.”.

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The future includes good (human) teachers

The Hechinger Report

– China’s state-controlled news broadcasters have long been considered somewhat robotic in their daily recitation of pro-government propaganda, and a pair of new presenters will do little to dispel that view. We are now living in a world in which robots do many of the jobs we once thought the preserve of humans.

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

.; Paloma Garcia-Lopez - Executive Director, Maker Education Initiative - "Maker Movement: Making More Makers" Jeanne Century - Director of Research and Evaluation and Science Education, Outlier Research and Evaluation, CEMSE, University of Chicago - "Is it STEM or Just Good Practice?"

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(The Very Last) Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Not so sure how folks plan to do their beloved STEM without the S or the E in this future, but hey. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The Business of Job Training (and Educational Benefits for Employees). ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” asks The Atlantic.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs are back in the headlines again. Via Edsurge : “The Second Wave of MOOC Hype Is Here, and It’s Online Degrees.” The Business of Job Training. Via Education Week : “Is STEM Oversold as a Path to Better Jobs? Economy by 2030.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

This Bootcamp Will Train Sales Chops (and Even Pay For It).” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” In other STEM news, Pornhub awards a “women in tech” scholarship. Because “Pornhub cares.”