From DSC:
Alexa is up to 100,000 skills. How might these types of techs be integrated into education, training, learning spaces, collaboration, other?
Celebrating 100,000 Alexa Skills -100,000 Thank Yous to You — from developer.amazon.com
On 09/18/2019,
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by Daniel Christian
Per Jane Hart on LinkedIn:
Top 200 Tools for Learning 2019 is now published, together with:
- Top 100 Tools for Personal & Professional Learning 2019
- Top 100 Tools for Workplace Learning 2019
- Top 100 Tools for Higher Education 2019
PLUS analysis of how these tools are being used in different context, new graphics, and updated comments on the tools’ pages that show how people are using the tools.
On 09/17/2019,
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by Daniel Christian
DIY Mindset Reshaping Education — from campustechnology.com by Dian Schaffhauser
Excerpt:
A do-it-yourself mindset is changing the face of education worldwide, according to new survey results. Learners are “patching together” their education from a “menu of options,” including self-teaching, short courses and bootcamps, and they believe that self-service instruction will become even more prevalent for lifelong learning. In the United Sates specifically, 84 percent of people said learning would become even more self-service the older they get.
Among those who have needed to reskill in the last two years to continue doing their jobs, 42 percent found information online and taught themselves and 41 percent took a course or training offered by their employers, a professional association or bootcamp, compared to just 28 percent who pursued a professional certification program, 25 percent who enrolled in a university-level degree program or 12 percent who did nothing.
If people had to learn something new for their career quickly, they said they would be more likely turn to a short training program (47 percent), followed by access to a free resource such as YouTube, Lynda.com or Khan Academy (33 percent). A smaller share (20 percent) would head to an accredited university or college.
From DSC:
This is why the prediction from Thomas Frey carries weight and why I’ve been tracking a new learning platform for the 21st century. Given:
- The exponential pace of technological change occurring in many societies throughout the globe
- That emerging technologies are game-changers in many industries
- That people will need to learn about those emerging technologies and how to leverage/use them <– if they want to remain marketable/employed
- That people need to reinvent themselves quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively
- That many people can’t afford the time nor the funding necessary these days to acquire a four-year higher ed degree
- That running new courses, programs, etc. through committees, faculty senates, etc. takes a great deal of time…and time is something we no longer have (given this new pace of change)
…there needs to be a new, up-to-date, highly responsive, inexpensive learning-related platform for the 21st century. I call this learning platform of the future, “Learning from the Living [Class] Room.” And while it requires subject matter experts / humans in significant ways, AI and other technologies will be embedded throughout such a platform.
“I’ve been predicting that by 2030 the largest company on the internet is going to be an education-based company that we haven’t heard of yet,” Frey, the senior futurist at the DaVinci Institute think tank, tells Business Insider.
— source
Addendum on 9/18/19:
- Education Startup Launches Online Courses for College Credit — from campustechnology.com by Sara Friedman
For $400 per course, students will be able to gain access to course videos that are cinematically filmed and taught by “some of the brightest minds in academia.” Outlier.org students will also have access to problem sets, one-on-one tutoring and assessments proctored through artificial intelligence.
On 09/05/2019,
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by Daniel Christian
A Financial Crisis — Student Loan Debt — from freedomdebtrelief.com by Micahel Micheletti; with thanks to Aimée Bennett (APR, Principal, Fagan Business Communications, Inc.) for this resource
Key findings
1) Impact of student loan debt on stress, day-to-day life (college attendees/grads)
- 67% of respondents said the cost of their college education has caused them to feel overwhelmed.
- 47% said their college education cost has contributed to mental or emotional health issues (e.g., anxiety, depression).
- 38% said the cost has caused them to lose sleep at night.
- 49% said the cost of their college education has impacted their choice of where to live.
- 42% said it impacted their choice of careers or jobs.
2) Impact of student loan debt on finances (college attendees/grads)
- 59% respondents said they can’t save any money because of the cost of their college education.
- 45% said they can’t go on vacation because of college costs.
- 32% said they are carrying credit card debt because of college costs.
- 48% said they have been unable to pay off (or down), or have delayed paying off (or down), other types of debt because of the cost of college.
- 47% have been unable to, or have delayed contributing to, saving for emergencies.
- 43% believe their college education cost has impacted their retirement age.
3) Willing to make sacrifices to eliminate student loan debt (college attendees/grads)
- 52% of respondents said they would take a job with a salary less than what they expected if the company paid off their student debt.
- 27% said they would be willing to commit a maximum of five years to a company if they paid off their student loans; 28% said they would be willing to commit more than five years.
4) Impact of child’s student loan debt on parents
- 20% of parents said their child’s college education cost has contributed to mental or emotional health issues (e.g., anxiety, depression) of their own.
- 20% of parents said their child’s college education cost has caused them to lose sleep at night.
- 40% of parents believe their child’s college education cost has impacted their retirement age; 41% said the cost has impacted their overall retirement plan.
- 42% said they had given up saving for retirement; 42% gave up going on vacation.
Additional survey findings
1) Student loan debt reforms
- 54% of students said they feel that student loan debt should be forgiven by the federal government.
- 63% of students, and 52% of parents, said they would support expanding student loan forgiveness for those in public service (e.g., teachers, government employees, first responders, military service).
- 54% of students, and 42% of parents, said they would support free or subsidized tuition for low-income households.
- 53% of students, and 50% of parents, said they would support tax breaks for companies that offer student-loan repayment programs.
2) Expected length of time to pay off student loan debt
3) Lack of knowledge of loan terms, types – among both college attendees/grads and parents
On 08/05/2019,
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by Daniel Christian
From retrievalpractice.org regarding the “Make it Stick” book, this link includes:
- Discussion questions for each chapter
- Sketchnotes for each chapter
- Additional readings and research articles
On 07/30/2019,
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by Daniel Christian
DC: Holy smokes!!! How might this be applied to education/learning/training in the 21st century!?!
“What if neither distance nor language mattered? What if technology could help you be anywhere you need to be and speak any language? Using AI technology and holographic experiences this is possible, and it is revolutionary.”
Also see:
Microsoft has a wild hologram that translates HoloLens keynotes into Japanese — from theverge.com by
Azure and HoloLens combine for a hint at the future
Excerpt:
Microsoft has created a hologram that will transform someone into a digital speaker of another language. The software giant unveiled the technology during a keynote at the Microsoft Inspire partner conference [on 7/17/19] in Las Vegas. Microsoft recently scanned Julia White, a company executive for Azure, at a Mixed Reality capture studio to transform her into an exact hologram replica.
The digital version appeared onstage to translate the keynote into Japanese. Microsoft has used its Azure AI technologies and neural text-to-speech to make this possible. It works by taking recordings of White’s voice, in order to create a personalized voice signature, to make it sound like she’s speaking Japanese.
On 07/26/2019,
in adult learning, collaboration, colleges, community colleges, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, cost of getting a degree, digital learning, distance education, experimentation, higher education, ideas, innovation, internet, IT in HE, learning, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, liberal arts, lifelong learning, new business models, online learning, organizational change, platforms, psychology, reinvent, society, staying relevant, student-related, surviving, training / L&D, United States, universities, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
5 Years Since Starbucks Offered to Help Baristas Attend College, How Many Have Graduated? — from edsurge.com by Rebecca Koenig
Excerpts:
…nearly 3,000 Starbucks employees who have earned bachelor’s degrees online through the company-university partnership program.
The arrangement was possible logistically because Humberstone took her courses in business and environmental sustainability entirely online. And it was feasible financially because Starbucks and Arizona State University covered most of her tuition bill.
On 07/18/2019,
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by Daniel Christian
The future of work in America — from mckinsey.com by Jacques Bughin, James Manyika. and Jonathan Woetzel | July 2019
Excerpts (emphasis DSC):
Local economies across the country have been on diverging trajectories for years, and ***they are entering the automation age from different starting points.*** Our view incorporates the current state of local labor markets as well as the jobs that could be lost and gained in the decade ahead.
The US labor market looks markedly different today than it did two decades ago. It has been reshaped by dramatic events like the Great Recession but also by a quieter ongoing evolution in the mix and location of jobs. In the decade ahead, the next wave of technology may accelerate the pace of change. Millions of jobs could be phased out even as new ones are created. More broadly, the day-to-day nature of work could change for nearly everyone as intelligent machines become fixtures in the American workplace.
…
The labor market could become even more polarized. Workers with a high school degree or less are four times as likely as those with a bachelor’s degree to be displaced by automation. Reflecting more limited access to education, Hispanic workers are most at risk of displacement, followed by African Americans. Jobs held by nearly 15 million workers ages 18–34 may be automated, so young people will need new career paths to gain an initial foothold in the working world. Roughly 11.5 million workers over age 50 could also be displaced and face the challenge of making late-career moves. The hollowing out of middle wage work could continue.
…
The future of work is not just about how many jobs could be lost and gained. Technology is altering the day-to-day mix of activities associated with more and more jobs over time. The occupational mix of the economy is changing, and the demand for skills is changing along with it. Employers will need to manage large-scale workforce transformations that could involve redefining business processes and workforce needs, retraining and moving some people into new roles, and creating programs for continuous learning. This could be an opportunity to upgrade jobs and make them more rewarding. The choices that employers make will ripple through the communities in which they operate.
The need for a next gen learning platform is quickly approaching us!
Either that, or colleges and universities better get FAR more
responsive/nimble, and focus FAR more on lifelong learning.
This is not a joke.
This is not just text on a web page.
This is a future that’s barreling at us at amazingly fast speeds.
A new chapter is coming at us quickly.