Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2021

One path points toward on-the-job training. Apprenticeships have long been a mainstay for hiring people into skilled trades, but they’ve lately gained some momentum as a way to train people for office work , too, including for information technology positions that are in high demand. The other takes a detour through college.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2021

A growing number of companies have moved beyond training their own employees or providing tuition assistance programs to send staff members to higher education. 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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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

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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edWeb.net

APRIL 23, 2020

Online training is useful to get staff up to speed on current legislation and trends, but face-to-face meetings, like working with a technology coach, are imperative to ensuring each student’s needs are met. The district was one of three schools recognized nationally by ISTE for its digital badge program.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

So, I think going back we would have had parallel, interlocking coaching and work and training on moving from that teacher-centered to student-centered model…and using the tech to really accelerate that.”. The district was one of three schools recognized nationally by ISTE for its digital badge program.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

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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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are a variety of reasons for this: language barriers, lack of Internet access, incompatible devices, lack of training. 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.

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