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It’s Time to Digitally Transform Community College

Edsurge

Community college has even risen to a key policy point in national and state politics, with politicians touting plans and creating models for “free college ,” which often mean tuition-free options for community college as a pathway to four-year degrees or other credentials. But are community colleges ready for this digital transformation?

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

EdNews Daily

To match the changing, unpredictable nature of today’s economy and digital landscape, these programs should aim for flexibility and innovative paradigms. One example of this is the newest trend of “ digital badges.” Or must they take a leave of absence? This is a vital issue. research project at Stanford.

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Join Us in Chicago for the Fourth Annual Global Leadership Summit - March 15, 2019

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Discover effective resources, best practices, and new ideas that can help students develop empathy, perspective recognition, critical thinking, problem-solving, communication and collaboration skills, and other competencies that students need to succeed in an interconnected world. Lunch is included.

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3 Big Issues We Heard About at SXSWedu

Wired Campus

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. Few were predicting, however, that new certifications or badges would eliminate the value of a college degree. Mitchell L. New Forms of Credentials.

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Can Micro-credentials Create More Meaningful Professional Development For Teachers?

MindShift

As soon as the district instituted the policy, educators were developing ideas for micro-credentials. She was already planning to teach an integrated project, but the micro-credential gave her some resources and research backing to begin that process with some support. WHAT’S HAPPENING ELSEWHERE?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” 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.”

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What I Learned On My ‘Secret Sabbatical’ As a Scholar-in-Residence at a Private Company

Edsurge

While I was an embedded academic with the company, I played amateur anthropologist to learn all I could about corporate practices. What practices of really effective companies, in which creativity and innovation are important, seem to have the biggest impact? In a great company, everybody assumes responsibility for everything.