Trends analysis and news with a focus on tech, entrepreneurship, edtech, modern learning and industry 4.0 as well as Europe in general.
The job market is changing rapidly. But too many politicians still are promoting and sometimes make decisions on subsidies to professions from the 20th Century that is about to disappear. At the same time as they defend labour-market regulations that today only is holding people back. In a Harvard Business …
The fifth generation of mobile communications now is rolling out in some parts of the world like the US and eastern Asia. It brings with it smarter cities, autonomous vehicles, extended virtual reality applications and much more. At the same time as it will transform almost every industry available today. …
To make artificial intelligence think more like humans it has to have the ability to make better sense of the world, which means becoming more imaginative. Sam Gershman from the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Harvard says: “In contrast, humans can answer an infinite variety of queries about a scene.” …
The Training Institute of National Education (IFEN) of Luxembourg is developing a Digital Library for teacher training. This new service is designed in collaboration with the National Library of Luxembourg. Where the users will use their Identity and Access Management (IAM) credentials to be able to view and download a …
The Adult Education Survey (AES) 2018 shows that participation in further training increased in Germany last year with four percent. This means that more than half of all adults in Germany (54 percent) participated in at least one further training event. The focus of the Adult Education Survey (AES) assesses …
Within HighTech Strategy 2025 the German Federal Education and Research Ministry now launch Future Cluster. Where one of the key objectives is to bring outstanding research faster into people’s everyday lives. This new generation of regional innovation clusters will form a basis for ideal conditions for the cooperation of universities, …
Three points are vital for the change of learning from systemic thinking of the industrial age to design thinking of our age: 1. The user/learner is the centre of the experience 2. Think outside the box to produce engagement 3. Design is not for the sake of design. The design …
3D-printing is seen as one of the most vital technologies in building Industry 4.0. But still, the usefulness can be questioned since cost-effective 3D-printers only print one material at the time. This limits its scope of production dramatically. Even a more advanced 3D-printer that can manage three materials (cost around …
A new Gallup/Northeastern University study shows that 73 percent of U.S. workers say artificial intelligence will eliminate more jobs than it creates. This should be seen in the light of that 47% of jobs in the U.S. today are at risk of being replaced within the next 20 years. At …
A research study on people of the age of 60+ that are learning to code has been published by the cognitive scientist, Philip Guo at the University of California, San Diego. It is based on a survey that included 504 users of pythontutor.com between the ages of 60 and 85 …
