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Unlocking Skills: What Learners and Employers Need to Know About Microcredentials

Edsurge

Digital badges, microcredentials and digital credentials… What sets them apart, or are they synonymous? The credentialing world has grown significantly in the last few years , resulting in an evolving and sometimes undefined digital education model. 1EdTech inherited Open Badges from Mozilla in 2017.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

And well beyond the industry’s backing of Code.org , venture capital has continued to flow into “learn-to-code” businesses in 2017, alongside a number of corporate grants (and corporate PR efforts that have sought to encourage the adoption of coding curriculum. MIT will issue digital diplomas on the blockchain.