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IT professionals will need to rethink their careers as corporate IT departments undergo a radical restructuring over the next five years, a study predicts.

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This resource is where teachers create online tests quick and easy. There is a different range of tests that teachers can choose from such as cloze tests, multiple choice and matching exercises. Great resource as the teacher can blend student's work into a simple test or quiz for them to complete. 

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A very useful and user-friendly tool to create cloze tests, multiple choice quizzes and matching exercises. You can download them as pdf or embed into your sites. It requires registration and a yearly membership fee. 

From the paper:

"In the 1970s and 1980s, MIT Professor Donald Schön asked a fundamental
question about higher education: is the current curriculum, he wondered, the right way to train young professionals? Schön’s answer was that professional education in the late 20thCentury was outdated. It was based on ideas about thinking, learning, and professional expertise that were not appropriate for preparing students to work in complex and uncertain domains that demand autonomy, judgment, and the ability to solve problems in action and on the spot. [2, 3]

"Now, at the beginning of the 21st Century, we need to ask a similar question about all education: is the current system the right way to prepare young people for life in a world where new technologies of information and communication place a premium on creative and innovative thinking? My answer is in two parts. The bad news is that the technologies of the digital age bring the same problems and issues that Schön identified in professional education to all of education. However, the good news is that the same technologies that make innovative and creative thinking critical skills for the future also make it possible for students to prepare for that future through well-designed and sophisticated computer games for learning

"Computer games, in other words, may be a critical part of the future of education in the digital age, and while in this analysis, because of my own particular expertise I draw examples primarily (though not exclusively) from the United States, the issues and analysis holds for any nation that wishes to prepare itself and its citizens for our changing world."

The concept of "epistemic" seems close to "authentic" in a "walk in someone else's shoes" sort of way; but there is more to it so take a look as soon as you can.

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