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It’s Time to Digitally Transform Community College

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According to the latest tracking data from the Chronicle of Higher Education, two-year colleges are significantly more likely than other institution types to be planning for a primarily or fully online fall semester. But are community colleges ready for this digital transformation? Department of Education data.

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The Beginning of a New Era in the Online Degree Market

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Department of Education data, out of the thousands of institutions operating online programs, the 100 colleges and universities with the greatest online enrollment accounted for 47 percent of all online students in 2016, up from a 43 percent share in 2012. According to U.S.

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Higher Education Joins the Blockchain Party

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He pointed out that anyone may put false information—like a degree or digital badge—on their LinkedIn profile. She added that “clever cryptography” can hide certain data on the blockchain—so the data isn’t necessarily forgotten, but hidden from the world together. Krishnan said she thinks students are keen on the idea.

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Millennials: The Straw That Will Stir Higher Education’s Next Disruption

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Beyond coursework, students swim in a flux of data, buffeted by phone calls, text messages, Facebook updates, Twitter tweets, news crawls, and other sources. To match the changing, unpredictable nature of today’s economy and digital landscape, these programs should aim for flexibility and innovative paradigms.

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

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Non-Degree Microcredentials as Pathways to Lifelong Learning and Degrees From digital badges and nanodegrees, to MicroMasters and new types of certificates, there’s an explosion of professionally-oriented microcredential offerings , and employers are increasingly aware of and accepting of these educational options.

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3 Big Issues We Heard About at SXSWedu

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Big data is coming to education, if it’s not here already. But the rules and norms for handling digital information generated by students are far from clear. My colleagues in the learning sciences are just thrilled that these new waterfalls of data” will allow them new windows into pedagogy, he said.

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The Microlearning Moment in Workplace Learning

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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. But it does mean that the expectations of employers and workers are shifting, and that data and algorithms are driving and measuring what workers have learned.

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