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Taking You Higher: Don’t Miss These 40+ Higher-Ed Events Happening in 2019-2020

Edsurge

You’ll often find EdSurge reporters, researchers and other staff members at these events, scribbling and typing away to chronicle the latest chatter, insights and news on emerging trends in the future of learning. Orange events are tightly focused around a topic or specific audience, such as libraries or community colleges.

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As Grad Degrees And Credentials Boom, Prestigious Schools Are Winning

Edsurge

It increasingly includes numerous types of microcredentials, certificates and certifications, coding bootcamps and informal courses. News & World Report national rankings had any significant online degree presence. These offerings respond to the increasing need for lifelong learning and career development.

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How colleges can help their students out-compete robots 

The Hechinger Report

In addition to offering traditional degrees that integrate coursework across disciplines, colleges need to offer “smaller modules of learning” — like microcredentials, bootcamps, and programs that blend online and on-campus education — and deliver them in ways that accommodate the schedules of working people, says Sarma.

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?HigherEd Year in Review: What We’ve Learned (and Loved) in Our First 365 Days

Edsurge

Nearly half of you told us that we’re your top source for higher education news (thank you!) It’s a topic that consistently drives lively debate, and the conversation between Michigan’s president Mark Schlissel and EdSurge reporter Jeff Young does not disappoint! More than 900 institutions (one out of five in the U.S.) Pass it on!

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How Can Virtual Tutoring Help Students During Distance Learning?

MindShift

was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Beyond tutoring, the district also created math and phonics “bootcamps” this fall, where elementary school teachers gave a series of lessons reviewing essential skills in those subjects. Newark schools are ramping up virtual tutoring.

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Impatient for workers, businesses help students take college shortcuts

The Hechinger Report

High school students come here after school and in the summer to learn about web development, user experience and other in-demand topics under the mentorship and guidance of Synchrony employees and engineering majors from the University of Connecticut. They also “often aren’t taught in our for-profit bootcamps.

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This Week: "Unplugged Ed" Tonight; Empowering Teachers; Alan Blankstein; Free Conference Events Coming Up; Hacking Education with Audrey Watters

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

On FRIDAY I''ll be appearing live on the Blended Librarians Online Learning Community Webcast, speaking on the topic of "Building a Successful Online Learning Community for Librarians." Bootcamp 2.0 HACK EDUCATION PODCAST: The cutting and ironic humor of Audrey Watters drill-down on educational technology news each week: [link].