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Why blended learning will become an educational norm

Neo LMS

And if we take into account ed-tech and the increasingly important role it plays in learning and instruction, blended learning seems like a feasible — maybe perfect? What’s in a blend? 1) A blended learning strategy is based on blended learning materials. Two things, actually. (1)

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The Power of Microcredentials and America’s Higher Education Dilemma

Edsurge

However, as industry and technology have evolved rapidly, inadequate higher education funding and rising costs due to inflation have affected higher education’s responsiveness. With such industrial, technological, infrastructural, societal and economic growth occurring in the country, higher education became seen as a key pathway to success.

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The Learning Accelerator on blended learning: `In the future, we’ll just call it learning’

The Hechinger Report

If you’ve attended a major education conference this year or follow education trends, you’ve likely heard a phrase that is creating great excitement: blended learning. Blended learning classrooms look different: instead of a teacher lecturing in front, you might see students wearing headsets and looking intently at computer screens.

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Despite Poor Performance, Virtual School Enrollment Continues to Grow

Edsurge

The number of K-12 students enrolling in full-time virtual and blended learning schools continues to grow, despite research suggesting that students in these programs do not perform as well as their peers in traditional settings. Each report also offers suggestions for improving the state of the industry.

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Helping Students Take the Next Step in their Career and Education Journey

Digital Promise

Using a RIASEC (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional) framework, students learn that they all have unique gifts and practice self-reporting their interests early on to identify possible careers that might augment those interests, as well as their strengths and values.

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7 Edtech Trends to Watch in 2022: a Startup Guide for Entrepreneurs

Edsurge

Workforce upskilling is being supplemented by edtech solutions “Half of all employees around the world will need reskilling by 2025—and that number does not include all the people who are currently not in employment,” according to the World Economic Forum and PwC Upskilling for Joint Prosperity report.

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

Read more: Why blended learning will become an educational norm. Almost half of all Ontario secondary school teachers report using YouTube or video elements in their classrooms. Yet a 2015 report by Universities Canada found that less than half of Canadian universities have a strategy to adopt digital technologies.

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