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More Employers Are Awarding Credentials. Is A Parallel Higher Education System Emerging?

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It’s not hard to find prominent examples: • Google recently announced an expansion of the company’s popular Google Career Certificates portfolio. IBM runs a digital badging program , now in its seventh year, that has awarded 3.7 million credentials to date, growing at a 61 percent pace from 2019 to 2020.

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The Key Role of Tech in Accessibility for All

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Coxsackie-Athens Central Schools is currently ranked first in the nation by the National School Boards Association for its digital conversion that includes providing a mobile device for every student in K-12 as well as shifting most back-office storage functions to the cloud.

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Planning for the Total Cost of Edtech Initiatives

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Coxsackie-Athens Central Schools is currently ranked first in the nation by the National School Boards Association for its digital conversion that includes providing a mobile device for every student in K-12 as well as shifting most back-office storage functions to the cloud.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. Google Reader. Google shut down Reader in 2013 , citing declining use of RSS. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon. The TED Talk.

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