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Using Micro-credentials for Personalized Professional Development

Digital Promise

The ACT Network brings together shared school leadership teams—teachers, principals, central office staff who serve the schools, and community advocates—to analyze a school’s data sources, including demographic data, perception and survey data, learning data, and program data.

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To Better Serve Adult Learners, Eliminate the Barriers Between Work and Learning

Edsurge

Integrating Learning and Work in Service of Adult Learners Adult learners are typically driven by career-related motivations: according to one analysis, 70 percent of adult learners say that gaining skills and knowledge directly related to the workplace is essential when choosing where to enroll.

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The Microlearning Moment in Workplace Learning

Edsurge

Our analysis highlights a world in which learning is increasingly more digital, delivered when it is needed, and done in shorter and less structured ways than in the past. The boom in short-form digital learning in the workplace doesn’t mean that classroom-based corporate training or more structured on-the-job learning is going away.

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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

Edsurge

Today, Google Maps is an open ecosystem for accurate, real-time geospatial and navigation data. To bridge the gulf, it will take a similar open-data ecosystem to support learner navigation. This data must be in a machine-readable format and interoperable to work in all apps and systems.

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

Edsurge

Technology can collect and harness more data than ever before. I’m confident that the coming decade will finally show the wave of breakthroughs in teaching and learning that can happen when technology, data and networks reach everyone in a system. Open digital badges. If so, what new challenges have emerged?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Getting Smart and the XQ Institute have released a “landscape analysis of competency-based education.” SNHU and LRNG are merging “to Create ‘ WeWork for Education ’ Via Digital Badges and Mini-Campuses.” ” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. ” Testing. ” JFC.

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The Power of Positive Climate and Culture

EdTechTeam

Track data all year with celebrations and share-outs. Digital Badging. Teachers can videotape events in their room to share with support leaders or the Culture and Climate Team for analysis and debriefing. Recognition and healthy competition are true motivators. Incentives at each grade or building level.