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

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. • 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. And at Northeastern University, we’ve articulated IBM’s digital badges and Google’s IT certificate for degree program credit.

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New Effort Adds College Credit to Apprenticeship Programs

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In fall 2020, the American Council on Education started its own effort with $1 million from the Koch Foundation. The council will keep track of the credits that apprentices earn through Credly, a digital badge platform. Congress is considering a bill called the Apprenticeships to College Act that would strengthen the network.

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

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And because of social distancing, we find ourselves living in world that is even more digital–and the evidence of that shift is all around us. Restaurants have rapidly shifted to online and mobile ordering, and are speeding up the deployment of digital kiosks that replace human workers.

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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 Microlearning Moment in Workplace Learning

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Put simply, the short-lived recession of 2020 has given way to a massive shortage of workers and skills in 2021–and placed talent strategy and human capital back at the top of corporations’ strategic agendas. And employers are competing to attract and retain employees in what is being called a “ war for talent. ”

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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. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon. The Teacher Influencer Hustle. " Other teachers said that bathroom accidents were common.

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