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DECEMBER 9, 2017

Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.) “Google Unveils Job Training Initiative With $1 Billion Pledge,” The New York Times reported in October. More on that in a subsequent article in this series.)

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MARCH 23, 2018

” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. ” The Business of Job Training. Via CNBC : “ Amazon ’s cloud is looking at building a corporate training service.” million total.

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APRIL 13, 2018

Via Chalkbeat’s Colorado news desk : “$35 million for school safety will go toward training, but not hiring, of school resource officers.” ” The Business of Job Training. “ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? ” asks Edsurge.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

The Business of Job Training. How Humans Train Its Search AI Is Partly Why.” ” “ OER , Capability, and Opportunity” by David Wiley. Via Edsurge : “ OER Had Its Breakthrough in 2017. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. LaVar Ball Wants to Shake Up the System.”

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The Business of Job Training. You just need the right training apparently. Fails at Worker Training ” – according to The Atlantic at least. Stephen Downes and David Wiley debate OER : “The Cost Trap, Part 3” by David Wiley. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” “Why the U.S.

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JUNE 23, 2017

” Via The New York Times : “ Trump Move on Job Training Brings ‘ Skills Gap ’ Debate to the Fore.” ” More on the business of job training in its own section below. ” The Business of Job Training. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The U.S.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

See also: “ George Mason U Signs with Outsourcer to Train Students in Coding” via Campus Technology. I count Zenefits as “ed-tech” of sorts because, among its offerings: training and testing for health insurance workers – with a bonus: cheating on licensing exams.). The Business of Job Training.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

The Business of Job Training and Job Placement. “Can robotics teach problem solving to students?” ” “Of OER and Platforms: Five Years Later” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” “ Robots and drones take over classrooms,” according to the BBC.

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JULY 21, 2017

” Via Education Week : “For Principals, Student Sexting a Speeding ‘Freight Train,’ Full of Peril.” ” The Business of Job Training. Via NPR : “Students Compete In First-Ever International High School Robotics Competition.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Go, School Sports Team!

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. IBM wants us to believe that Watson is incredibly powerful – powerful enough, even, to search 1000 OER. ” Via TeacherCast : “Why Teachers Will Never Be Replaced By Robots.” ” Via Education Dive : “Researcher: AI won’t replace teachers.”

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MAY 25, 2018

The Business of Job Training. ” Via Chalkbeat : “A growing Jeffco program trains future early childhood workers while they’re still in high school.” ” Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “ Top Hat ’s OER Announcement: Doubling down on faculty engagement.”

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Via Chalkbeat : “Trump’s proposed education budget: more for school choice, less for teacher training.” Via E-Literate : “ Hawai’i Senate Bill: Would mandate OER material for all U Hawai’i system courses.” The Business of Job Training. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

” Via The New York Times : “ Navy Orders New Training After Deadly Ship Collisions.” ” Apparently watching CD-ROMs isn’t sufficient training for driving Navy destroyers. The Business of Job Training. ” The tech industry is still bullish on the business of tech training nonetheless.

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JULY 1, 2016

The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. ” She promises that every kid will learn to code (of course) by having the private sector train CS teachers. “ Robots won’t replace teachers because they can’t inspire us.”

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MARCH 16, 2018

” There’s some Udacity-related MOOC news in the job training section below. The Business of Job Training. Perhaps it should go in the “robots” section. Lisa Petrides, Douglas Levin, and Eddie Watson introduce The CARE Framework for OER. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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APRIL 28, 2017

The NAACP endorses OER. ” The Business of Job Training. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Via CNBC : “Google exec, Mark Cuban agree that these college majors are the most robot-resistant.” ” Learn-to-code toy Ozobots is launching Spiderman and Guardians of the Galaxy branded robots. .”

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

The Business of Job Training. Via The New York Times : “ Google Unveils Job Training Initiative With $1 Billion Pledge.” ” Via Spectrum News : “Despite dearth of data, firms sell brain training as autism antidote.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Contests and Awards.

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MARCH 9, 2018

” The Business of Job Training. Edsurge on the business of OER. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” Tarena International has acquired the K–12 robotics company Wuhan Haoxiaozi Robot Technology (a.k.a. Watch how the narratives about “the future of education” are crafted.

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

This Edsurge article – “ OER is Growing at Religious Colleges , But Raises Unique Challenges” – strikes me as a little weird, considering the long relationship between open education (the conference, at the very least) and former BYU professor David Wiley. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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MAY 5, 2017

” Nope, robots will not be doing this job of content moderation , as Facebook recently boasted at its developer conference. The Business of Job Training. ” The Pew Research Center asked “experts” about “The Future of Jobs and Jobs Training.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. There are a variety of reasons for this: language barriers, lack of Internet access, incompatible devices, lack of training. Brain Training.

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JUNE 8, 2018

The Business of Job Training. “Some Thoughts on OER ” by Mindwires Consulting’s Michael Feldstein. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Southern Illinois U. May Be About to Fire Its President.” ” Upgrades and Downgrades. .”

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JULY 27, 2018

There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. The Business of Job Training. Why is this in the job training section of the Hack Education Weekly News, you ask? ” asks The Atlantic. “ Are Universities Training Socially Minded Programmers? ” asks The Atlantic.

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MAY 26, 2017

” The Business of Job Training. What’s going to happen to all those clown colleges and clown training programs? Via Edsurge : “OER Pioneer David Wiley Predicts All Community Colleges Will Dump Traditional Textbooks By 2024.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Can the game’s creators do it again? .”

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