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Higher Ed Should Pay Attention to the Corporate World’s Growing Use of Skills Data

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However, the educational alternatives to degrees, including various types of microcredentials , continue to grow — in part because they are more affordable, are often better connected to the needs of employers, and also because they are highly accessible and digitally delivered.

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Pearson’s Connections Academy Launches New College and Career Prep Initiative

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via the Coursera/Acadeum college and university partner network The industry credentials available can help qualify high school students for careers in fields like data analytics, UX design, software development, and cybersecurity, while also allowing them to earn eligible credit and cost savings toward a college degree.

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Issuing Micro-Credentials to Your Teachers Can Reward Competency

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They offer districts an innovative way to document teachers’ skills while allowing the teachers to share their progress with others via a digital badge. The teachers receive their digital badges via email and can transfer them to a badge backpack or post them to their professional profiles like LinkedIn.

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What Problems Has Edtech Solved, and What New Ones Did It Create?

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These devices accelerated the unbundling of content so that students can directly access leveled news articles on Newsela, or their favorite book on Epic. That doesn’t mean every student has access to a device all the time. Open digital badges. Now schools can generally afford and support the devices they need.

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To Retain College Students, Look to Academic Support and Campus Activities, New Report Finds

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To encourage students to take advantage of extracurricular activities that may improve their chances of staying enrolled and complement their classroom learning, the University of Central Oklahoma devised a system that awards digital badges for participation in events and clubs and also compiles evidence for interested future employers.

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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

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But in the field of education, we don’t even have a complete set of static competency frameworks for digital data that are openly accessible and interoperable—to say nothing of dynamic data that support real-time pathway optimization. To bridge the gulf, it will take a similar open-data ecosystem to support learner navigation.

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Marketplace trend update: 6 ed-tech developments

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Collaborative software provider ClassFlow announced a way for teachers to earn extra cash during the upcoming school year. The new ClassFlow Marketplace is an open community where teachers may buy and sell original teaching resources such as digital lessons, unit plans, assessments, teaching guides, worksheets, and more.

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