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How to Assess Digital Literacy

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Of late, the most common question is, “How to I assess student digital literacy?” How do I assess faculty digital literacy so I can teach them what they don’t know?” In the past, I discussed the eight skills required for students to be considered digitally literate. Why assess it?

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4 Digital learning trends for Higher Education

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Students then receive personalised recommendations based on their progress and can choose how to be assessed. The alternative to four-year degrees comes in the form of digital credentials. Students who have mastered a competency can earn a digital badge to showcase that.

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New Ways to Gamify Learning

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Awarding badges for the accomplishment of steps or completion of skills has become popular in many schools. Student digital badges show knowledge they’ve acquired that can then be posted to their personal webpage, blogs, LMSs, or anywhere else that takes digital input. Breakout EDU.

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Teaching in the Era of Bots: Students Need Humans Now More Than Ever

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Faculty record voice and video feedback for students and share it securely through an LMS gradebook. When students learn online, technology is the medium used to create content, assess learning, and foster interpersonal communications.

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Marketplace trend update: 6 ed-tech developments

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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. In addition to portfolios, MyMantl will offer digital badging tools, competency-based education program designers and job tools.

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Using Transactional Distance Theory to inform instructional design

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This approach to online learning has served to help new-to-online learners navigate the online course, learn to use the most common learning management system (LMS) tools, and interact with their classmates in ways that have modeled the traditional classroom. with required reading assignments, discussion forums, quizzes, etc.

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Support English Learners with Micro-credentials from Digital Promise

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It has become increasingly possible to personalize learning–adapt resources and assessments to student skills and needs and differentiate lessons that are pushed out to individual students or small groups ( read: Shifting my Teacher Mindset with Micro-credentials ). One of the leaders in this field is Digital Promise.