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Lining Up Students with Careers That Actually Fit Their Education

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Gossip about Gossip: How Platforms Provide Content Creators with Cryptocurrency Payment
March 28, 2023

In the rapidly growing world of cryptocurrency, getting paid for certain types of content via the digital medium is a lot more layered than meets the eye. According to Cointelegraph, the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened crypto payments as there was an increase of these payments. As content creators use various web platforms to promote and […]

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Gossip About Gossip: How Aberdeen Plans to Tokenize Investment Funds on Hedera
March 28, 2023

Private equity investments are often regarded as higher risk profiles than any other asset classes. Because of liquidity concerns and higher barriers of entry, everyday individual investors are steered away from alternative asset classes like private equity. That’s where fractionalization of large-scale investments through blockchain and DLT technology provides accessibility and privacy among individual investors. […]

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Using HIP to Improve Hedera Hashgraph
March 28, 2023

The Hedera Improvement Proposal (HIP) is a process established to help developers formulate new ideas and improvements within Hedera Hashgraph. According to InfoQ, workplace feedback helps boost efficiency. The method allows the development team’s members to submit their suggestions and receive constructive criticism and opinions from fellow developers. HIP allows Hedera to have an orderly […]

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Lining Up Students with Careers That Actually Fit Their Education
October 6, 2021

3 Key Points: The YouScience South Carolina’s Denmark Technical College partnership will give students opportunity to learn about other career opportunities It will all students to make more informed decisions about their majors and potential future career YouScience uses psychometrically valid exercises to help uncover students natural aptitudes to use towards creating a personalized […]

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As Higher Education Attendance Declines, Will Skills Overtake Degrees?
October 1, 2021

Key Points: The NSCRC’s final 2021 spring report found college enrollment fell 3.5%, losing 600,000 students compared to the year before, the largest drop in enrollment numbers since 2011. Universities and community colleges are evolving to highlight the competencies that students develop in addition to the credits they earn. To find the best applicants, companies […]

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Why Upskilling is More Than Just Job Training
July 30, 2021

The current economic zeitgeist suggests that workers need to start re-educating themselves if they want to not only survive but thrive. David Blake, CEO of Learn In, thinks differently. On this of EdTech Today, David breaks down why the employers are the ones that should shoulder the burden of educating the workers in order […]

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How to Optimize Your Business’ Internal Mobility
April 25, 2021

Hiring external candidates can be expensive.  Recruiters, ads on major job sites, and time getting the new hire up to speed all play a part in the cost. So why aren’t companies making the most of internal candidates yet? Infamously known as the job-hopping generation, Millennials have a reputation for fast turnover, jumping from one […]

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Why Credentialing Platforms Have to Fill the Void in Job Skills that Universities Are Creating
April 9, 2021

Numbers are up across the board for employer-based credential programs as companies develop a robust parallel higher education infrastructure. Research out of credentialing platform Credly found that the number of organizations building their own curriculum and issuing credentials is up 83% since the start of COVID in 2020. Big players like Google, IBM, and HubSpot […]

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Bridging the Educational Divide with Tech Skilling
February 17, 2021

Closing the educational divide and the digital skills gap has always been important to technologically-minded educators, but the disruptions of COVID-19 have brought a new urgency. Ensuring all students can participate equitably and fulfill their dreams in society hinges on having the right access to technology, especially in the education system. Students from underserved schools […]

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FirePoint Brings First Hacking for Defense Program to Kansas
February 1, 2021

This semester, students at Wichita State University have become the first in Kansas to put their innovation skills to work in solving real-world national defense challenges as part of the Hacking for Defense (H4D) program, thanks to the FirePoint Innovations Center and WSU’s Masters of Innovation Design program. H4D, a program of the National Security Innovation Network (NSIN), is a semester-long course […]

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Upskilling Strategies That Work
January 29, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating effect on the nation’s economy, with 13.6 million Americans out of work in August 2020. According to McKinsey, even before the current crisis, evolving technologies and new ways of working were disrupting jobs and the skills employees needed to do them. This shift, coupled with a dramatic split in college attendance between higher and […]

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New Study Reveals Virtual Reality Skills Training Is Poised for Explosive Growth
January 26, 2021

Mursion, the industry leader in immersive virtual reality training for emotional intelligence in the workplace, and Future Workplace, an advisory and membership organization that prepares HR leaders for the future of work, today announced their partner study: VR Changes the Game for Soft Skills Training. The report examines the rapidly growing trend of VR simulation training being adopted as a means to […]

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