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Vacancy Search and the South Yorkshire Apprenticeship Hub
EdTech News - Education technology is a global opportunity
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Here’s how Hawaii’s emergency alert design led to a false alarm. Forget hackers, it could be poor user experience design that starts WW3.
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Education technology is a global opportunity. Particularly online language learning platforms in the far East.
5 great online course booking systems for training providers
Here are 5 pay as you go online systems for training providers that want to publish a course catalog, manage enquiries and take bookings online. Some of them do a bit more - you can manage the delegate after the booking, share course materials, track attendance and collect course feedback. All 5 systems take the pain out of trying to manage enquiries from large numbers of delegates.
Software development projects - why do some projects fail?
It’s always interesting to hear about a software project that’s gone wrong. Not because of schadenfreude but because it’s interesting to see how the reasons are often very similar; there’s a small set of things that cause big problems on a project. The good news is they are easy to avoid if you do a bit of careful planning.
What are the reasons?
EdTech News - Google launches IT Professional Support Certificate - is this the future?
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Google launches IT Professional Support Certificate - Self Study. Is this the future? Free to study on Coursera and Google subsidise the end of course certificate so you only pay $49. Needs 8-10 hours per week for 8-12 months.
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Government search site is flooded with hundreds of ‘locations’ for the same providers. Find Apprenticeship Training website - sounds like more time needed on user experience design.
EdTech News - How can the OU survive in a world of MOOCs?
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Facebook job ads targeting younger applicants. Over 40? You won't even see the advert. More on the power of the big social tech companies.
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What happens to the OU in a world MOOCs? Is higher education now a commodity and how can the OU survive?
EDTech News - Learning analytics cuts university drop out rates
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UK's Nudge Unit tests machine learning to rate schools and GPs. Machine learning might spot failing schools and mean fewer Ofsted inspections.
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Google and Gallup’s computer science education research: six things to know. Boys and girls equally interested in computer science at age 12 but not two years later.
Can’t Receive Calls From a New Skype Number on Mac OS - Problem Solved
I signed up for a new Skype number today and then spent two frustrating hours trying to get it to receive calls before finally stumbling upon the solution.
I use Skype on a Macbook with the latest version of Mac OS. And I was using the latest version of Skype - the new redesigned app. All the searches I did on the web pointed me to this Skype support page:
EdTech News - Do we need an assembly line of new coding students?
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An Assembly Line of Coding Students? Tough questions for the computer science movement - is software development the new blue collar work?
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Education technology meets its limits. MOOCs and why employers struggle to buy into them.
Why data analytics with Microsoft Power BI might just be great for your school
You can use Microsoft Power BI to turn your in-house data into interactive data dashboards and reports. It’s now one of the top two or three business intelligence tools on the market and it’s a great solution for schools that want to get more value from the data they collect about students and learning.
Power BI is very accessible - it’s easy for the non expert to get started - and it is not expensive. With Microsoft Power BI you can:
EdTech News - Laptops in lectures are a bad thing for students
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Why you should not encourage students to use laptops in lectures. Tell them to use a notebook and pen instead.
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Just 18% of US computer science graduates are women.