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Tag: education
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Are Marketing Degrees Worth the Paper They Are Printed On?
A salacious title, perhaps, but with the time investment required and rising costs of universities, it seems like a question many are asking.
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A Foundation in Customer Experience Should Start in College
Most colleges could be doing a better job training students in one of the most important areas of business today: digital customer experience.
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How Are Universities Responding to the Tech Skills Gap?
Keep tabs on the changing face of technology, but don't try to keep up with ephemeral trends — how two universities are responding to the "skills gap."
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How Schools Can Harness Automation to Drive Digital Transformation
Automation tech has the potential to absorb the time-consuming tasks that slow school administrative staff down.
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The Google Ate My Homework: What’s New in EdTech
Education technology can help students become self-directed learners through engaging material, appropriate and immediate feedback and personalized instruction.
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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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