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More Employers Are Awarding Credentials. Is A Parallel Higher Education System Emerging?

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A growing number of companies have moved beyond training their own employees or providing tuition assistance programs to send staff members to higher education. It’s not hard to find prominent examples: • Google recently announced an expansion of the company’s popular Google Career Certificates portfolio.

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It’s Time to Digitally Transform Community College

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As a group, we called for a reimagining of community college, including moving toward more alignment with industry and more digital options. But are community colleges ready for this digital transformation? Broward College in Florida has been a leader in integrating industry certifications into its degree programs.

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As the Microcredential Market Booms, Don’t Forget the Learner

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In fact, the boom in microcredentials is being fed in large part by major companies—IBM, Google, and Amazon, to name a few—looking to grow their talent pipeline and increase the skill level of current employees. Frontline workers with high potential but low digital confidence: We’ve seen more employers invest in upskilling for this group.

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Online PD Courses Help Educators Understand Ed-Tech, Classroom Management, Study Finds

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Nearly 60 percent of 589 preK-12 educators surveyed enrolled in professional courses online, according to a study by the Educational Technology Industry Network, a division of the Software & Information Industry Network. Company/vendor: 29 percent. To receive a digital badge: 10 percent.

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

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In a national survey , we found that providing academic credit for experience and on-the-job learning was among employers’ top priorities for colleges and universities, alongside other work-integrated learning themes such industry validation and including real-world projects in the curriculum.

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3 Big Issues We Heard About at SXSWedu

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The document was created primarily with secondary education in mind, but among its supporters are some higher-education groups, including the Institute for Higher Education Policy. So the organization administering the credential is creating more-specific versions focused on certain industries. Mitchell L. New Forms of Credentials.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” The company – funded by Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Pearson, Learn Capital, and others – says it will remain open. The US Department of Education announced it was launching “a pilot to test rigorously the effectiveness of more flexible loan counseling policies on federal student loan borrowers.”