eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2021

MobileMind customers can now create and share quality-assured micro-courses across all topics, methodologies, and technology with other MobileMind districts. . To learn more about MobileMind Community and how MobileMind can maximize the impact of ESSER funding, visit the company’s website and schedule a call. . About MobileMind.

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Professional Learning Digital Badges LMS Learning 52

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

This is especially true when it comes to the growing share of jobs that are technology related and hinge on rapidly-evolving skillsets—which today make up more than a quarter of all job openings, according to data from Burning Glass Technologies.

Digital Badges 87

Digital Badges Industry Coursera Social Media 87

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Some of those teachers spend upwards of 150 hours every year on training sessions, workshops and conferences that sometimes resemble what many students experience in the classroom: listening to a lecture and taking notes. These digital badges aim to signal that teachers can perform or demonstrate the skill for which they were awarded.

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Digital Badges Student Data Privacy Blackboard Company 67

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2019

By some estimates, within a decade, only 30 to 40 percent of “college students” will physically attend a college to earn a degree, while many of the rest will shop for chunks of education and training that allow them to take the next step in their careers while also stacking toward an eventual degree. OpenTaxonomy.org is one example.

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Digital Badges Coursera Training Company 79

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

But to train this workforce effectively, we’ll need to change the way we approach education. In the past, we’ve often thought about formal education as the acquisition of broad skills at a fixed point in time, with training ending at about age 18, 22 or later for those who need advanced degrees. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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MOOC Digital Badges Coursera Education 55

Marketplace K-12

JUNE 27, 2016

The three biggest reasons pre-K-12 educators took online professional development courses in the past year were to learn how to use digital devices, how to use the educational software that goes on them, or to find out more about classroom behavior or management, according to a new study. Training for electronic/digital devices: 33 percent.

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Course Study Survey Digital Badges 53

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Yet a sometimes overlooked part of that community are local companies and businesses that hope—and need—to find skilled workers. As students enroll and complete courses, they earn digital badges in a “Skills Passport” that school counselors and recruiters can see. Some companies specifically aim to hire veterans).

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Digital Badges Company Data Report 60

eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2016

Remaining a tech-savvy educator means keeping on top of the myriad changes and trends in education, how technology can support those trends, and how teaching and learning can best benefit from near-constant change. In addition to portfolios, MyMantl will offer digital badging tools, competency-based education program designers and job tools.

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Trends Digital Badges Blended Learning Learning Analytics 40

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Having a central hub for all our PD needs has made my job as an Instructional Technology Director easier,” explained Adriane Ellis, Director of Instructional Technology and Media Services for Murray County Schools in Georgia. PLC, Data, or Team meetings).

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Digital Badges Professional Learning Training Outcomes 103

edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

In the edWebinar, “ Strategic Technology Planning and Investment,” which is part of CoSN’s Empowered Superintendent series for edWeb, three superintendents who’ve been in the trenches for all aspects of district edtech plans discussed effective financial planning for technology. Are they prepared to adapt to other systems?

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EdTech Digital Badges Software Outcomes 51

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

ALMA START ( www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies launched an enrollment and admissions management tool called Alma Start. BENCHMARK EDUCATION COMPANY ADVANCEALL ( benchmarkeducation.com ) Benchmark Education Company (BEC) released Advance ALL, a new series motivating students to read with literary and informational reading text sets.

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Epson Blackboard Pearson STEM 51

MindShift

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

School districts spend a lot of money on trainings for educators, but the returns on that investment are not always clear. Last year Sayas tried to focus on tying together science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) concepts through design. But these elements are rarely applied to professional development.

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Blended Learning Course Digital Badges Professional Learning 68

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Just as formal education systems made a dramatic shift to digital since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, on-the-job training is changing as well. The same forces that transformed classrooms have accelerated the adoption of more digital learning in workplace training—advancing a trend that was already underway.

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Learning Training Digital Badges Coursera 172

The Innovative Educator

DECEMBER 23, 2018

She is developing a digital badge micro-certification program that provides new collar job training. The exact activity that happens in these digital shop classes. Digital Badges were developed by a collaboration between IBM and Mozilla.

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Digital Badges Common Core Industry Robotics 95

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

In this public sabbatical, I have learned a ton of new things, mostly about education research methods and what we know from those methods about how learning spaces interact with pedagogy and technology to affect student learning. The most important characteristic of great companies, that higher education lacks the most, is agility.

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Steelcase Company Learning Digital Badges 88

Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

Via Edsurge : “As LinkedIn ’s Video Library Grows, Company Says It Has No Plans to Compete With Colleges.” ” “The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced Wednesday that it will receive a $140 million gift from an alumnus who seeks to remain anonymous,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ”). .”

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Education Coursera MOOC Udemy 46

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2017

In January, he was hired to develop apps at the National Center for Telehealth and Technology near Tacoma, Washington. The credentials come from many sources: traditional universities, online platforms like edX, trade organizations like the American Hotel and Lodging Institute and companies like Jiffy Lube and IBM. Cost: $900. “I

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Training Company Policies Industry 99

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” (Related: “Theranos investor Tim Draper blames the company’s downfall on an investigative journalist,” Business Insider reports.). More “MOOC” news under the job training section below.

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Education MOOC Coursera Company 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. And “free” doesn’t last.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

” She promises that every kid will learn to code (of course) by having the private sector train CS teachers. Elsewhere in MOOC research… From Campus Technology : “Grouping MOOC Students by Communication Mode Doesn’t Help Completion.” Hillary Clinton unveiled her tech platform this week. ” “U.S.

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MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

This is part eight of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In previous years, I’ve looked at how education technology is intertwined with narratives about “ skills ,” “ competencies ,” and “ credentialing.” Bootcamp or Bust.

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Robotics MOOC Training Industry 59

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Salesforce has filed a patent for “ Digital badging for facilitating virtual recognition of an achievement.” The Business of Job Training. ” Google announces it is “Funding 75,000 Udacity scholarships to bridge the digital skills gap.” Accreditation and Certification. No, actually.

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Education Broadband Company Data 45

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

” More on the new for-profit higher ed – coding bootcamps – in the job training section below. Via The Pacific Standard : “For the First Time, a Female Officer Completed the Marines’ Grueling Infantry Officer Training Course.” ” ( No disclosure that Edsurge shares investors with the company.).

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Education Company Data Report 47

Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

*Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Doesn’t look like the company has anyone to take his place yet. ” The Business of Job Training (and Educational Benefits for Employees). It’s a rot at the very core of the company’s leadership team.

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Education Khan Academy Company MOOC 60