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Higher Ed Should Pay Attention to the Corporate World’s Growing Use of Skills Data

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First, it is important for higher ed to recognize that digital credentialing — which can provide richer, more granular and machine-readable data on learning outcomes and skills — should not be limited to the discussion about non-degree “alternative credentials” and digital badges.

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It’s Time to Digitally Transform Community College

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Given the sizeable and crucial population of students served by community colleges, all of this means that policymakers, edtech companies, four-year institutional partners and others must consider how we can build a technology infrastructure and a set of strategies to transition community colleges into the increasingly digital future.

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New Ways to Gamify Learning

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Awarding badges for the accomplishment of steps or completion of skills has become popular in many schools. Student digital badges show knowledge they’ve acquired that can then be posted to their personal webpage, blogs, LMSs, or anywhere else that takes digital input.

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Issuing Micro-Credentials to Your Teachers Can Reward Competency

Edthena

They offer districts an innovative way to document teachers’ skills while allowing the teachers to share their progress with others via a digital badge. The teachers receive their digital badges via email and can transfer them to a badge backpack or post them to their professional profiles like LinkedIn.

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In 2019, What’s REALLY the Definition of a Teacher?

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The teachers already have to do all that work for the academic standards in that week’s pile to narrow-cast what chapter or software module, discussion questions, what to write a paper on, etc. Debugging software and hardware issues on-the-fly. Giving students gold stars or digital badges.

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How Do You Patent an Edtech Idea, Anyway?

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Russell: In 2008, while I was a graduate student at Georgia State University, I had the idea to make PowerPoint presentations that chunk material into smaller bits as a way to help keep students’ eyes on the page. But we were spending hours making each presentation and teachers just don’t have time to do that. Who Owns Digital Badges?

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The Key Role of Tech in Accessibility for All

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During ClassLink and CoSN’s edWebinar, “ Accessibility for All: Creating an Equitable Learning Ecosystem, ” the presenters discussed the lessons they’ve learned, especially regarding technology as an instrument for accessibility. All software—and hardware—should be vetted by a team of faculty and IT staff. Highlights.