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Educator Micro-credentials Policy Map Provides an Update of State and District Use of Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

State-Level Policy and/or Guidelines : Policies supporting micro-credentials are in place at a state-wide level through legislation or the state’s Department of Education. States are continuing to develop policies and guidelines to support districts looking to leverage micro-credentials for professional learning.

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The Winners and Filmstrips of An (Almost) Decade in Education Technology

Edsurge

So with these guidelines in mind, I’ve chosen six areas where edtech has made an impact this decade: Learning Management Systems. Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges. But today, edtech is commonly understood to mean digital technology.

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Massive Study of Online Teaching Ends With Surprising — and ‘Deflating’ — Result

Edsurge

New study in @PNASNews on MOOC persistence- 2.5 His message is that learning scientists need to pay more attention to context when they test various teaching methods. Encouraging that kind of research would mean a change in how major funders of learning science operate, though.

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Stanford Calls for Responsible Use of Student Data in Higher Ed

Edsurge

The guidelines center on four core ideas. moment about the need for a big data code of ethics came soon after “MOOC mania” struck higher education in 2012. The sudden rise of MOOCs, or massive open online courses, and the deluge of data that followed were both thrilling and unsettling. For Stevens, his “aha!”

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Udemy, an Online Course Platform Where Anyone Can Teach, Keeps Raising Money. What's Next?

Edsurge

There are some guidelines for the courses allowed on the site. The company says it employs a “trust and safety” team that monitors course content, and that it uses algorithms to detect content that violate its guidelines, just as sites like YouTube and Airbnb do. In fact, the company says 80 percent of its courses on the site are free.

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Assessment strategies in higher education- What are formative and summative approaches in student assessment?

Linways Technologies

It is recommended by AICET in its assessment guidelines that “at institution/ University level, upper limit need to arrive for lower order skills (for example, no more than 40% weightage for knowledge-oriented questions)”. To categorize different types of assessment tools, the UGC assessment guidelines use four categories.

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New Teachers Won’t Save Us

The Thinking Stick

How to update your “class website” in a manner that is appropriate, within school guidelines and gets your message across to your community. Are they studying new and emerging learning theories like Connectivism that was written and has been around since 2005 and is the foundation to what MOOC s are based on.