The Next Web

MARCH 24, 2018

Today, the number of online courses, online certificate, and degree programs, and the scores of eager students, has grown exponentially in all disciplines — design included. Suddenly, instead of moving to a costly design capital like New York or London, students can learn the basics from the comfort of their own homes.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In the class, at Paul Smith’s College in upstate New Yorka school that mixes traditional academics with more practical coursesa small group of students spent three months last fall going through each step of the construction process, from planning and purchasing materials to building basic furniture for the finished 8-by-10-foot space.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Technology Support as Teaching April 24, 2007 I’ve been thinking a lot about technology support lately. Really a lot. All technology providers have to deal at some level with support. Second, Empowerment.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Glean For arming employees with the tools to get their jobs done Companies contain a lot of information thats crucial for employees to know, but its spread out across an array of workplace apps: Slack, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, and more. But the company took a big step forward during 2024 with a little help from OpenAI.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

Disclaimer Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? Associate Professor, ASU School of Community Resources & Development This post is about a bad dog and the role that a class of ASU students is playing in its quest for redemption. report on whether a nonprofit is doing a good job at what it does.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The problem, as he and Koller saw it, was that the format didn’t do a good enough job of connecting with individual students, checking in with them to make sure they were paying attention, understanding, and actually interested in what was being taught. gallery ids="2060568,2060569,2060570"].

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

because it teaches you how to think.” - Steve Jobs. There is a 3-to-1 job gap between the number of coding jobs and the number of computer science graduates. Only 10% of students (starting in elementary school) learn the basics of code. Video courtesy of Code.org on YouTube. Hour of Code. December 9-15, 2013.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

Language is first and foremost a social, relational phenomenon,” said Sébastien Dubreil, a teaching professor at Carnegie Mellon University. “It While Dubreil doesn’t think Duolingo can teach someone to speak a language, he does think it has taught consistency — a hard nut to crack in edtech. Image Credits: Duolingo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

As a parent of wired kids, I think teaching digital literacy is very important for parents to do. It’s all about teaching digital literacy and citizenship: the knowledge and skills necessary to think critically, behave safely, and interact responsibly in a digital world. Is it about keeping students safe?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Some students at the MyTechBestFriend academy have always been a little suspicious of the program and its founder, Mary Awodele. For a minimum of $3,000, it offers to teach people skills, such as technical writing, and help prime them find high-paying tech jobs. The students attending her academy, MyTechBestFriend, were upset.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

She was teaching an engineering course, and her students were using simulation software to model turbines for jet engines. She’d laid out the assignment clearly, but student after student was calling her over for help. She asked each student where they’d saved their project. multiple students inquired.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The company claims that there’s an estimated 1 million software engineering job openings in Latin America, but fewer than 100,000 professionals that have training suitable for those roles. Beyond technical training, Henry gives participants job coaching, resume workshops and up-skilling opportunities post-graduation. The Henry team.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Patiño said that 80% of their revenue comes from Argentina, and the capital resources will help them grow their 21,000 student base to other countries. Sosnik thinks that graduation rates are a good proxy for impact and student satisfaction. A challenge for the startup will be scaling its teacher assistant [TA] to student ratio.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 22, 2007

In 2005 the principal of Hadley-China, Rongqiang Xia, contacted Hadley students and staff who spoke native English to see if they would like to teach Chinese Hadley students English over the internet. Hadley-China students, support staff from Hadley-China, and native English speakers log onto a website at the same time.

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Tableau

AUGUST 9, 2021

The pandemic has accelerated digital transformation and further shifted what students need to succeed in today’s digital economy. Educators must develop programs to address the digital skills gap and teach digital literacy. A Brookings Institution study found a steep rise in jobs requiring digital skills.

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Tableau

JANUARY 8, 2021

Bridge the data literacy gap for students in academia. Working with data is a necessity for most jobs, and analytical skills can be a huge differentiator for success across all kinds of work—whether corporate, nonprofit, or academic. Students will learn how to critically analyze data through theoretical and practical exercises.

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Tableau

JULY 29, 2021

Since 2011, Tableau Academic Programs have been supporting the growing need for data skills by offering free resources for learning and teaching Tableau in the classroom - 1.6 million students - and counting - have acquired data skills through our program. To mention a few: . After 10 years, she was eager to reenter the workforce.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 17, 2014

When I showed up, 16 eager students quietly listened to my story of starting and running businesses, and helping other entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground. Deeb’s Ice Cream Store,” one student had the winning name that got everyone excited: “The Best Ice Cream Store in the World.”. Staying competitive.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

When he came home to Tunis, he met many students who wanted to build products like him each summer. His new job was to open a subsidiary for a French open source tech startup and that required hiring developers on the ground. Students on the platform go through two types of programs. We are targeting a wide range of students.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 18, 2021

For Students , adapted from Brian Tracy ’s time-management bestseller, Eat That Frog , which has sold more than 2.4 This new edition addresses the specific needs of high school and college students , teaching them readily actionable time-management methods, techniques and strategies. A student’s life is completely different.

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Tableau

AUGUST 9, 2021

The pandemic has accelerated digital transformation and further shifted what students need to succeed in today’s digital economy. Educators must develop programs to address the digital skills gap and teach digital literacy. A Brookings Institution study found a steep rise in jobs requiring digital skills.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Tableau Ambassadors teach and share while fostering a positive and supportive space within the data community. Tableau Ambassadors serve one-year terms in one of seven branches: Forums, User Groups, Student, DataDev, Public, Social, and CRM Analytics. What do Tableau Student Ambassadors do? Britt Staniar. Alyssa Jenson.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Instead, Huang left teaching after seven years because of how New York City handled the coronavirus pandemic in schools. Companies don’t have the same pressures as entire school districts, and thus are able to give teachers a way to teach on more flexible hours. The reality of next job. Or the low pay.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The edtech boom has focused primarily on students, but teachers are learners, too. Doyobi , a Singapore-based professional development platform, wants to give educators new, more engaging ways of teaching STEM subjects. Doyobi wants to solve that problem by reaching students through their teachers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2014

I’ve just finished teaching a class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. The grad students in my class will be doing an internship as part of their field work, being placed in international organizations in the US and around the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

To my delight, the Akshay Pratishthan school had a focus on teaching students with disabilities: roughly half the students had disabilities and were mainstreamed with students without disabilities. The school has almost a dozen different social enterprises that provide access to these job skills.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 24, 2021

For Students , adapted from Brian Tracy ’s time-management bestseller, Eat That Frog , which has sold more than 2.4 This new edition addresses the specific needs of high school and college students , teaching them readily actionable time-management methods, techniques and strategies. A student’s life is completely different.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

CoderSchool will use the funding to accelerate its online teaching platform growth and technology infrastructure expansion for the company’s technical education programs that guarantee employment upon graduation. “After having taught over 2,000 students, we’ve been able to refine our [coding education] content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

One of the many inspiring things he shared in his talk was the phrase: “ You can have a job, career, or calling.&# It resonated. In my interview, I shared that I didn’t know a modem from microwave, but that I had the passion and curiosity to learn and teach others. Is your work a job or career or is it a calling?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

Being more introverted versus extroverted, the author's advice and teachings would have helped me during new jobs and after promotions, when relocating to new cities, when joining new clubs and organizations, and whenever I became a member of a new team. I found the teachings about asking questions as a newcomer particularly useful.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

It operates over 90 schools where it teaches a range of subjects from robotics to philosophy for an individual’s “360-degree development.” ” Orchids has served over 75,000 students, according to its website. It’s also an investor in Eruditus, which offers higher education to students in dozens of markets.

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sgEngage

JUNE 17, 2024

Many cite burnout as the primary reason they are leaving the teaching profession, and in response, schools are trying to pivot and focus on the well-being of their faculty and students. were considering leaving their jobs. Students—and in the case of K–12 schools, their families—do not need 24/7 access to teachers.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Your job is to convince donors what you already know that the work your organization does is urgently needed to change the community and the world for the better. When he wanted people to understand his teachings, he told stories. How many students will get to participate in an afterschool program? How you ask is important.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Since it first launched its classes in March 2016, the company has seen a 118% CAGR in revenues and a 145% CAGR in students. In 2020, 28,000 students across Latin America used its platform. Digital House also links its graduates to company jobs, claiming an employability rate of over 95%. Image Credits: Digital House.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Manara: A marketplace to connect Middle East talent to tech jobs. Avion School: The education startup teaches Filipino students to be remote software engineers around the world. Kidato: Targeting the middle class of Africa, Kidato is an online school for K-12 students. Poliglota: A language school for Latin America.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

Sophie was also struck by the diversity of the people she witnessed going through coding bootcamps, but she realized that those graduates weren’t getting access to the same opportunities that students from traditional universities do. Its ability to dynamically change based on a student’s performance in particular was compelling.

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