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

Edsurge

So with these guidelines in mind, I’ve chosen six areas where edtech has made an impact this decade: Learning Management Systems. Learning analytics. Digital badges. Adaptive learning systems. The real power of digital technology to increase learning remains untapped. OER and open books.

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Can Competency-Based Education Demonstrate Mastery Across a Lifetime? #DLNchat

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Crisp and other #DLNchat -ters see the growth of CBE and its relevance to employers supported by the expansion of online learning. Not everyone in the #DLNchat community was as enthusiastic about the potential of adaptive learning for CBE. The work completed in a CBE program could become part of a digital CV.”

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

Edsurge

It is still early in the adoption of these digital hiring practices—and how employers deploy them is still very much a “black box.” As those hiring methods go digital, they could speed adoption of new kinds of microcredentials and digital badges designed to show employers the fine-grained skills achieved during educational programs.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.”

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