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Tag: education
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Upskilling Workers to Future-proof Your Business
How do enterprises upskill workers to keep their business moving forward? 3 organizations share tips on the impact of training and upskilling their workforce.
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Higher Education's Unique Digital Workplace Challenges
Higher education has specific needs when it comes to digital collaboration and communication, but the big challenge comes with timely application.
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SVAcademy Counters Tech's Diversity Problem with Education and Mentorship
The tech industry suffers from a longstanding misconception that it is a meritocracy, where only hard work and the best ideas are rewarded regardless of gender, race or socioeconomic status.
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How to Keep Your Skills Sharp and Your Career Vibrant
In the digital economy, every company is looking to adopt the latest and greatest innovations to make their products smarter, easier to use and more connected to their customers. This means companies need tech-savvy employees in their workforce to implement the innovations. Unfortunately the demand outpaces the supply.
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News You Can Use: Investors Get Personal with BloomReach
Investors are taking things personally. Venture capitalists invested $56 million in a Series D funding round into BloomReach, a Mountain, View, Calif.-based cloud personalization platform company. Bain Capital Ventures, Battery Ventures, Lightspeed Ventures, New Enterprise Associates and Salesforce Ventures participated in the funding round.
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Was That $128K Education Really a Good Investment?
Only 60 percent of young adults worldwide agree their formal education is useful in their current jobs.
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Are You as Relevant as a Robot?
The robots are coming for tech jobs too. Here's what to do. By now we know the drill about robots. They are getting smarter and more agile. Cute even. And did I say smarter ? They are, in short, able to take over almost any type of job and perform
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From Star Wars to Marketing: Challenges for Technology
Technology enriches our lives, empowers consumers and makes it possible to share knowledge on an unprecedented scale. It also raises important questions on how much more we can do and what we should do next.
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Microsoft: Get 'Em While They're Young
What's the best way to make a lifelong customer? Microsoft apparently believes in getting them while they are young. In its latest assault on the productivity suite market, it is offering Office 365 to students for free. Yes, yes.
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Google Classroom Fishes For Microsoft Users In Schools
Cheeky Google is stomping all over what has until recently been an exclusive Microsoft stomping ground. Well, nearly exclusive. Google has just announced the release of Google Classroom for anyone that is currently using Google Apps for Education.
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This Does Not Compute!
Ninety percent of K through 12 public schools do not offer computer science classes.
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School's Out: How Digital is Changing the Student Experience
Remember when the end of the formal school year signaled the excitement of summer vacation? Whether you relate to the Glee performance or Alice Cooper's rendition of “School’s Out,” there was always a certain element of freedom imagined in leaving the walls of the schoolhouse behind.
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Microsoft Takes Productivity Suite Contest to Thailand
Thailand seems an unlikely place for competition in the productivity suite market to erupt. However, the announcement last night by Microsoft that it has signed a deal with the Thai government to provide 8 million students with Office 365 should stir things up in Asia.
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Malcolm Gladwell: Want My Data? Give Me Value
What does the man who coined the term "tipping point" think about the impact of technology on our society? Have we passed the point of no return in privacy? Are schools to blame for the lack of qualified engineers? Do companies have the right approach to serving customers? So many
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