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Community Colleges Have Long Powered the Economy. To Sustain That Role, They Must Innovate.

Edsurge

The marriage between industry, community colleges, and career and technical education is real. To envision how community colleges need to evolve in their partnership with industry, let’s first take a look back at how far the pair has come together. However, perhaps now is the time for marital counseling.

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E-learning’s Promise and Failure

Knowledge Avatars K-12

Industrialization brought us mass education, essential to building an educated workforce, but today’s workforce requires specialization and skills that are way beyond group-think. . The current popular model for e-learning essentially takes the classroom model and moves it online. Would you use such a robot tutor?

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” He co-founded the company in 1999 with Maria Machado, who also got her start in the semiconductor industry before turning her attention to education. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says.

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Transforming Compton’s Schools into a STEAM Pipeline for Students

edWeb.net

99% of the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches, but the district’s graduation rate is now over 90%, exceeding the state and national averages. Elementary students participate in groups such as Girls Who Code and a Lego League, while middle school students can join e-sport leagues or do work as “medical detectives.”

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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

Edsurge

In a telephone interview, Phil Hill, edtech guru and co-publisher of the widely followed e-Literate blog , acknowledged that “the LMS is not only part of the university’s core infrastructure, but it also allows faculty and students to use technology creatively in the classroom.” The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)

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AI in the Classroom: A Complete AI Classroom Guide

The CoolCatTeacher

He was recognized with the Tech Champion Award at the 2022 Digital Industry Dynamite Awards and featured in the EdTech50. But I think expect that as a teacher, if all you're asking students to do is work that an AI robot can do. Dan is a respected authority in educational technology and artificial intelligence.

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Deep learning

Learning with 'e's

She showed several images of recent movies such as Ellysium, I, Robot and Avatar to emphasise her point. These technologies are now common place in the Western Industrial World, and we don''t think twice about them. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. Unported License.