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Refocusing on Jobs and Education in 2015

YourMembership

That question was answered in November when LinkedIn launched a new feature that will allow professional education companies and eventually colleges to provide certifications for LinkedIn users who have completed their courses. As a result the unemployment rate dropped to 5.6% (the lowest rate since 2008) and job openings rose to 4.97

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The Lifelong Learner’s Guide to Success: Future Proofing Your Career, Part One

Blue Sky eLearn

We pay tuition for higher education because we look at it as an investment in ourselves, assuming it will provide us with higher wages and thought-provoking work. First, let’s talk about higher education and how more Americans have college degrees than ever before. The percentage rose from 13.4% in 1974 to 35% in 2018 !

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The Lifelong Learner’s Guide to Success: Future-Proofing Your Career; Part One

Blue Sky eLearn

We pay tuition for higher education because we look at it as an investment in ourselves, assuming it will provide us with higher wages and thought-provoking work. First, let’s talk about higher education and how more Americans have college degrees than ever before. The percentage rose from 13.4% in 1974 to 35% in 2018 !

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Seen Elsewhere: Building Creative.

Idea Architects

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Seen Elsewhere: Building Creative Capacity, Emerging Education Models, and Group Decision Making. The Flipped Learning phenomenon is gaining major traction in elementary and secondary education. Brain Pickings.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. Innovation Trigger. We use our knowledge of practical use cases to put the media and marketing hype in perspective.

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Thanks For Playing: Friday Top 5

Thanks For Playing

Seeking community in associations since 2008. Top 5 Things to Know about Well of Dreams: Young women in Africa are often denied education once they reach puberty because they cannot afford sanitary supplies. ► 2008. The Grassroots Innovation Leader. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Thanks For Playing. 11 May 2012.

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Preparing for an Entirely New Economy

Jamie Notter

You’d think after all my education you’d get a more nuanced understanding. It is an economy in which the driving force is innovation. Innovation, nimble, continually offering new value, trust…sound familiar? They are not organized for continuous innovation. Moneyball and Management Innovation.