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Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce has launched a research repository where 650 different resources are freely available.
05/19/2020
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SkillsCommons provides a massive but navigable repository for the workforce development pipeline — supporting programs with affordable, openly licensed training and education materials.
05/19/2020
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Higher education research firm Eduventures has offered its perspective on the upbeat and disheartening enrollment scenarios possible for fall 2020.
05/18/2020
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The Online Learning Consortium has received a grant to work with minority-serving institutions as they shift to online instruction. The $50,000 award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation will fund delivery of affordable, short-term workshops to reach instructors in institutions that need professional development resources most.
05/18/2020
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Upcoming events include TDWI Virtual Summit, SANSFIRE 2020, and OLC Innovate 2020.
05/18/2020
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To cover all bases, Simmons University, a private women-focused institution in Boston, has announced its intention to develop an online undergraduate experience in time for the start of school in fall 2020. The new program, being built with the help of 2U, will give students the option of enrolling in hundreds of Simmons courses redesigned this summer for online delivery.
05/15/2020
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A survey undertaken by the University Professional and Continuing Education Association and online learning producer MindEdge found that two-thirds of respondents in colleges and universities have seen growing interest in alternative credentials among students in recent years, and nearly half would call it "significant growth" in interest.
05/15/2020
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A fully virtual esports tournament at the State University of New York is in its last week. Awards from the $20,000 pool will go to the student emergency funds for winning teams’ respective schools.
05/14/2020
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Zoom Video Communications has acquired Keybase, a secure messaging and file-sharing service.
05/14/2020
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The OmniSOC security operations center exchanges security data and best practices with institutions throughout the higher education sector.
05/14/2020
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A nonprofit maker organization is working with a company that creates computer kits to encourage people to make respirators for their communities.
05/13/2020
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Google has just made premium functionality in its online video meeting software freely available to anybody with a Google e-mail account.
05/13/2020
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College students are now feeling much more enthusiastic about the prospect of returning to school in the fall.
05/13/2020
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From determining a remote learning strategy to planning for the new normal and enabling standards-based practices, these five phases describe the progress institutions are making toward excellence in teaching and learning online.
05/13/2020
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This fall, California State University will be keeping most of its institutions' courses online, in response to the ongoing health and safety concerns of the COVID-19 pandemic.
05/13/2020
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Western Governors University has teamed up with a bootcamp provider to convert credentials into credits. WGU is working with Kenzie Academy, which runs year-long online and in-person programs in software engineering and user experience engineering.
05/13/2020
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Four university systems have been accepted into a program that will deliver professional development to their faculty as part of improving student achievement.
05/12/2020
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While many students have lost their internships for the summer over COVID-19 closures, a group of companies has come together to put coding students to work. Major League Hacking and GitHub have announced a remote internship program to support young developers by getting them involved with coding projects.
05/11/2020