Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2023

First, it is important for higher ed to recognize that digital credentialing — which can provide richer, more granular and machine-readable data on learning outcomes and skills — should not be limited to the discussion about non-degree “alternative credentials” and digital badges.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2021

MobileMind Community allows districts to save valuable time creating district-scaled PD for common training topics like learning acceleration, project-based learning, interactive whiteboards, LMS, and even subject-focused PD. Founded in 2015, MobileMind is a privately held, Atlanta-based educational technology company.

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Professional Learning Digital Badges LMS Learning 52

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

While high-resolution data for community colleges isn’t available, we can see evidence for this in proxies such as Google search trends , consumers’ growing openness and intention to study online , booming MOOC enrollment , and publicly-traded online learning company enrollment results. That presents both an opportunity and a challenge.

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Digital Badges MOOC Trends Industry 209

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

I’ve tried to train myself in the lingo and include terms like “design sprint,” “customer,” “ROI” and so on in my vocabulary. While I was an embedded academic with the company, I played amateur anthropologist to learn all I could about corporate practices. In a great company, everybody assumes responsibility for everything.

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Steelcase Company Learning Digital Badges 88

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 66

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 81

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

These tech jobs cut across industry sectors and many of them can be characterized as “ middle-skill ”—those that require more education and training than a high school diploma, but less than a four-year college degree.

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Digital Badges Industry Coursera Social Media 87

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The university offers digital badges rather than degrees or certificates for the completion of some courses. Companies need to be more active in designing these skills courses from the outset, deLaski said. “We That companies need trained employees is uncontested: More than three-quarters of U.S.

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Industry Digital Badges Training Course 95

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.

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MOOC Digital Badges Coursera Education 55

Marketplace K-12

JUNE 27, 2016

Training for education software, digital applications, digital program, other digital product: 34 percent. Training for electronic/digital devices: 33 percent. Training for student assessments: 27 percent. Company/vendor: 29 percent. To receive a digital badge: 10 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

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

” I’ve looked at how for-profit colleges , MOOCs , and learn-to-code companies have tapped into these narratives in order to justify their products and services. Code.org is backed by a long list of technology companies – from AT&T to Amazon to Facebook to Google to Verizon. (I’ll Bootcamp or Bust.

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Robotics MOOC Training Industry 59

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2018

” (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. ” ECOT is the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, an online charter school company. ” Testing.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2016

Learners, beginning in high school, will be able to track their academic and professional achievements and own their portfolio collections of learning, training, mentorship and digital credentialing. In addition to portfolios, MyMantl will offer digital badging tools, competency-based education program designers and job tools.

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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

Doesn’t look like the company has anyone to take his place yet. ” The Business of Job Training (and Educational Benefits for Employees). Instead, the company handed him a $90 million exit package, paid in installments of about $2 million a month for four years, said two people with knowledge of the terms.”

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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. “This Machine Learning-Powered Software Teaches Kids To Be Better Writers,” Fast Company claims. This year: “come to class,” the instructor says.

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Education Broadband Company Data 45

Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

Via Edsurge : “As LinkedIn ’s Video Library Grows, Company Says It Has No Plans to Compete With Colleges.” “ Digital Badges Are Gaining Traction,” according to MIndwire Consulting’s Michael Feldstein. Related, via Doug Belshaw : “Some thoughts on the future of the Open Badges backpack.”

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edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

It’s also looking at the potential changes, said Dr. Gabe Soumakian, CEO and Founder, Sup Du Jour Consulting Group, like what happens when a software or hardware company goes out of business. The district was one of three schools recognized nationally by ISTE for its digital badge program.

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EdTech Digital Badges Software Outcomes 53

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

” She promises that every kid will learn to code (of course) by having the private sector train CS teachers. ” “The University of Tennessee ’s Health Science Center will no longer use live animals to train medical students,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. Her “ innovation agenda.”

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MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

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. Each package delivers full curriculum support, training and resources from an ever-growing online community of educators.

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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. Digital Promise has been trying to ensure that the micro-credentials that do exist are high quality by emphasizing that they should be research-based, evidence-based and assessment-based.

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Blended Learning Course Digital Badges Professional Learning 68

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

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2017

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. Adam Braun started the company as “an alternative for those looking for more career focus.” Content and costs vary.

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