New Course In Connecticut Targets Dearth Of Job-Ready Software Developers

By HARRIET JONES, WNPR

A Milford-based entrepreneur is launching a training course designed to help with a shortage of web and mobile software developers — an issue that’s only expected to get worse in coming years. It’s estimated that nationwide, employers will need 1.4 million software developers over the next 10 years. The nation’s universities are only projected to produce 400,000 computer science graduates in that time. “So we’re going to have a deficit of about a million people who have the digital skills to work in web, mobile, marketing, and advertising — even TV, as TV becomes increasingly application oriented,” said Mark Lassoff. Those developers are going to have to come from somewhere.

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Students Are Drawn Towards Online Programs

by Bluffton Today

Ten years ago, online degrees weren’t even in conversations. There were a number of universities with distance learning programs, but students generally went to brick-and-mortar universities to pursue a degree they wanted. In 2013, studies revealed that discussions about online programs were more dynamic, but 78% of students still preferred to attend classes to learn. In just four years since that study was published by USA Today, the education landscape has changed completely. Now, more students prefer to take online courses. This shift is also affecting students living in Bluffton and nearby areas.

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YOU CAN TAKE A COLLEGE COURSE TO CREATE ‘GAME OF THRONES’ LANGUAGE

by Erik Fontanez, Crave

As fans of Game Of Thrones know, subtitles can be exceptionally useful when watching the hit HBO show. Understanding what these people are saying — especially when they’re in the middle of sword fights, drunken debauchery and secret sexcipades that may or may not include heavy incest — can be hard to translate. Luckily for you, the inventor of the Dothraki and Valyrian languages is here to help you make your own GoT dialect that you’ll fully understand and will potentially confuse your friends.

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For teachers, transition to leadership carries fair share of challenges

By Erin McIntyre, Education Dive

One way to combat isolation is to become a “connected educator,” using social media to connect with other leaders from across the country. Hashtags specific to school leadership include ‪#principalpln and ‪#principalsinaction. For tech-savvy educators seeking to learn more about administration, a number of websites offer resources and free materials. The the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) website offers a resource page with suggested reading materials, copies of Principal magazine, newsletters, white papers and links to sessions from the NAESP annual conference. Webinars and online learning possibilities can also help. A number of “principal practice” videos are available for free streaming on the PBS Learning website, funded by the Wallace Foundation. Education World also has a collection of resources called the Principal Files, focused largely on occupational challenges.

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Georgia Tech Professor Used Robot as TA

by Inside Higher Ed

Ashok Goel, a professor of computer science at Georgia Institute of Technology, gave his students an unusual lesson in an artificial intelligence course this semester. The Wall Street Journal reported that Goel used IBM’s computer analytics programs to create a robot — with the name of Jill Watson, in honor of the IBM Watson system — to work as a teaching assistant in the course. Jill Watson prompted students about deadlines and provided information and encouragement in the online discussions for the course.

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How single mothers juggle kids, getting college degrees

by Associated Press

Single mothers who attend college face a tough challenge. While new options such as online courses and satellite campuses offer more flexibility, the challenge of dealing with children, classwork, homework and often a job is still a difficult juggling act. Mothers who have done it say it would be nearly impossible without support from friends, family and public programs— and without giving up a lot of sleep. Devonish, a 2004 Atlantic City High School graduate, received her associate’s degree last year from Atlantic Cape. She is continuing her schooling part time, taking courses from Fairleigh Dickinson University at Atlantic Cape. Like other single moms, she knows the difference a college degree can make. A 2002 Census Bureau study estimated that in 1999, the average lifetime earnings of someone with a bachelor’s degree was $2.7 million, 75 percent more than what high school graduates could earn.

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12 ways to adopt Google Apps for Education

By Laura Devaney, eSchool News

A new digital resource offers tips to safely use Google Apps for Education. A new resource from Gaggle and Amplified IT offers technology facilitators 12 tips to help ensure that Google Apps for Education safe for teachers and students to use. In any implementation, it’s important that school and technology leaders identify benefits and value associated with the implementation. “Without the right strategies in place, most software and web-based tools–whether free or paid–are under-used in education,” according to the guide.

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Technology edging out humanities at Ohio colleges

By Collin Binkley, The Columbus Dispatch

Fewer students are enrolling in humanities majors at Ohio colleges amid an upswing in the popularity of science and business programs, according to federal data. Traditionally the bedrock of a college education, humanities disciplines, including English, philosophy and history, have attracted fewer students nationally in recent years. Some scholars have lamented the fall of the humanities, while others say the downturn is overblown.

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What Lies Ahead For Digital Education

By Richard Sousa, Forbes

Last month, the College Board, which administers the widely-used college admission Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), and the Khan Academy, whose mission is to provide a “free world-class education for anyone anywhere,” agreed to a partnership in which the Khan Academy will cooperate with the College Board to provide free, online SAT prep software. There are many SAT prep courses, books, camps, and tutors but none is cooperating directly with the College Board. The Khan Academy, with ten million users visiting its web site every month, is at the leading edge of digital education. The Khan-SAT partnership will allow for self-paced learning and will level the playing field by providing access to those who are unable to afford proprietary preparation courses.

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Learn and Earn money online

by Bubble News

Udemy is a one stop online learning center that offers a wide variety of courses, covering a diverse range of topics from Photoshop training to learning to code, how to play the guitar, to cake decorating, design, yoga, Spanish, marketing and much, much more. Two of the aspects that I appreciate the most about Udemy are the one-time fee per subject, usually $5 to $250 a course (although most subjects are free) and the fact that you can write and teach courses yourself and gets paid for it. At last count, over 3 million students in over 190 countries have taken online courses (more than 16,000) on the Udemy website and in 10 different languages. Each of the courses offered are designed and taught by a qualified instructor and hundreds of new courses are released every month.

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The pros and cons of online learning

by Della Bradshaw, Wai Kwen Chan, Charlotte Clarke, Financial Times

Just how much is online learning on the rise in executive education? asks Wai Kwen Chan. In 2011, 42 per cent of respondents to an FT poll of open-enrolment course participants said that none of the teaching and related assessments was conducted online. That figure stays the same in this year’s poll of more than 470 respondents.

Fifty-one per cent of those whose programmes included online elements said that these accounted for less than 25 per cent of the course. Some 80 per cent of respondents wanted online content in future courses.

The main benefits of online learning cited in the recent survey are flexibility, convenience, cost and time savings. The main drawbacks were a lack of interaction with other participants and teaching staff and fewer networking opportunities. Other concerns were quality of teaching, lack of learning support and the level of self-discipline required.

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