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

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The career readiness initiatives for high school students will offer an innovative new tri-credit approach where courses can deliver: High school credit from Connections Academy Industry-recognized micro-credentials on Coursera, and Eligibility for college credit toward over 150 bachelor’s degree programs in the U.S. That’s why our c.20,000

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The school that connects STEM, badging, and life beyond the classroom

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To address this challenge, we began brainstorming ideas about how to advance assessment to better promote success in these internships and students’ future college and career experiences. To make Competency X a success, it was vital that we know which foundational science-based skills industry partners seek in employees and interns.

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

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Cali Morrison added: “I define CBE as personalized pace, mastery-based learning where students demonstrate mastery through authentic assessment and progress as they learn rather than after a set amount of time.”. An assessment that shows knowledge, skill and abilities in context will be a valuable asset,” she tweeted.

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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

Edsurge

Dozens of credentialing institutions and quality assurance bodies are already posting information on the registry, which includes different kinds of credentials, from degrees, certificates and certifications to licenses, badges, and micro-credentials.

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In 2019, What’s REALLY the Definition of a Teacher?

EdNews Daily

Causing others to know something is, in fact, at the core of every single industry. It’s librarians that are supposed to curate and guide further studies and deeper dives or sideways jumps to secondary topics. Publishing and pushing content digitally and answering all messages. Formative and summative assessments.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.”

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