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4 Digital learning trends for Higher Education

Neo LMS

However, the events of 2020 have put HE on a fast track to digital adoption. The alternative to four-year degrees comes in the form of digital credentials. Students who have mastered a competency can earn a digital badge to showcase that. Some even offered tuition discounts for students taking online classes.

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OPINION: Our workforce must be ready to help growing numbers of students who come to school learning English

The Hechinger Report

public school enrollment in 2020, up from 8.1 Spanish was the most-reported home language among English learners in 2020, followed by Arabic. Through a series of 12 microcredentials, educators can submit evidence of their work in and outside of their classrooms. These students made up 10.3 percent of U.S. percent in 2000.

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How Libraries Stretch Their Capabilities to Serve Kids During a Pandemic

MindShift

includes reading challenges, craft projects, and games where students can earn digital badges online. . The librarians at Leander Independent School District in suburban Austin, Texas, say their “front line” relationships helping teachers connect to printers and setting up laptops in classrooms just shifted when learning moved online.

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The Key Role of Tech in Accessibility for All

edWeb.net

However, the goal is always the same: making sure that every student, at every level (classroom, building, district), has access to the resources they need to meet their learning goals. The district was one of three schools recognized nationally by ISTE for its digital badge program. About the Host.

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Planning for the Total Cost of Edtech Initiatives

edWeb.net

Her previous experiences include being a classroom business teacher at the high school and post-secondary levels, assistant director of a vocational cooperative, principal at East Noble High School, and assistant superintendent at East Noble School Corporation. Randy was a Tech & Learning Magazine runner-up for 2017 digital leaders.

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The Microlearning Moment in Workplace Learning

Edsurge

Just as formal education systems made a dramatic shift to digital since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, on-the-job training is changing as well. The same forces that transformed classrooms have accelerated the adoption of more digital learning in workplace training—advancing a trend that was already underway.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. They’re distracted.

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