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It’s 2020: Have Digital Learning Innovations Trends Changed?

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The Online Learning Consortium (OLC), one of the 12 partner organizations of Every Learner Everywhere, was charged with identifying and understanding innovations in the digital education landscape. a mixed methodological approach so that we're gathering qualitative data that tells the story about the quantitative findings.

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3 Opportunities for education during the pandemic

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Online learning bloomed, students helped each other, the community contributed with knowledge, moral and financial support, and social interaction was kept alive. Students could resume their learning and some parents could use the newly acquired skills in getting a job to support their families.

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Elite Colleges Started EdX as a Nonprofit Alternative to Coursera. How Is It Doing?

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It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Courses at Stanford and at MIT were opened for free online to the masses, and the masses signed up—with some courses attracting more than 160,000 each. Dhawal Shaw, founder of MOOC-discovery platform Class Central. Downsides of Openness?

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

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So with these guidelines in mind, I’ve chosen six areas where edtech has made an impact this decade: Learning Management Systems. Learning analytics. Adaptive learning systems. Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges.

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It’s the Dawning of a New Day in the Job Market. Here’s What That Means for Higher Ed

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As 2020 kicked off, the U.S. It’s important to recognize that this crisis will likely only accelerate the march of automation and the adoption of various labor-replacing technologies, including machine learning and AI. job market was the strongest in 50 years , and the economy had seen a record 113-month streak of job creation.

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COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Digital Blending of Working and Learning

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This is already evident in the latest national job-market data, which shows a 15 percent unemployment rate for high school graduates with no college and 13 percent for those with some college or an associate degree—compared to 7 percent for individuals with a bachelor’s or higher.

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The Microlearning Moment in Workplace Learning

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One motivation is a need to give workers new skills so they can grow their businesses at a time when there is a faster rate of skills obsolescence , driving the need for lifelong learning. And the number of active students in short-form offerings brokered by the company has grown ten-fold from the end of 2019 to the end of 2020.

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