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4 Digital learning trends for Higher Education

Neo LMS

So let’s explore a few online learning trends that I think are currently shaping how colleges and universities will prepare students for the future. Competency-based learning. Students have unique learning needs, and they also have different background knowledge. Digital credentials. Change is inevitable.

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Four Signs It’s Time for Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

Enter micro-credentials : competency-based recognition for educator learning that is supported by digital badges. Four recent developments have set the stage for micro-credentials: #1 – Competency-based learning for students. 2 – The rise of digital badging.

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Micro-credentials: A Promising Way to Put Educators’ Skills Front and Center

Digital Promise

In contrast, imagine a world where educators may be immediately and widely recognized for specific knowledge, skills, and mindsets that they demonstrate in transparent, competency-based ways. Micro-credentials, which provide recognition for these concrete competencies in the form of digital badges, could help facilitate this shift.

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Teaching in the Era of Bots: Students Need Humans Now More Than Ever

Edsurge

Laura Gibbs, of University of Oklahoma, engages with her students through creative writing assignments , actively blogging along with her students in the public web. Tracy Schaelen, of Southwestern College, uses micro-videos to greet students and help them navigate an online course.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. In 2015, former Star-Ledger education reporter Bob Braun posted a screenshot to his blog of an email by a New Jersey superintendent.

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