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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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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.

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Higher Ed Should Pay Attention to the Corporate World’s Growing Use of Skills Data

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And government leaders are also pushing the trend: many state governors , for instance, have adopted skills-based hiring for state positions, and the U.S. A number of learning management system platforms and student information systems already support these trends, while others do not. Department of Labor reported a near-record 9.5

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Predictions for 2021: An Acceleration of 2020?

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Lest 2020 be forgot and never brought to mind—a hope more than a few of us hold—existing trends that accelerated during the pandemic will continue in 2021. That’s what lies ahead, at least in the realms of education and employment, according to three college presidents and executives at large companies. Here’s how it breaks down: 1.

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Marketplace trend update: 6 ed-tech developments

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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. Collaborative software provider ClassFlow announced a way for teachers to earn extra cash during the upcoming school year.

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What Problems Has Edtech Solved, and What New Ones Did It Create?

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Open digital badges. As video technology continues to improve and virtual learning environments begin to rival in-person options, a growing number of companies will provide new pathways for learners to acquire a variety of skills, from machine learning and management to piano and parenting. Certain interoperability efforts.

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Higher Education Joins the Blockchain Party

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In addition, there has been a growing trend in higher ed around microcredentials, or short-term graduate and certificate programs. He pointed out that anyone may put false information—like a degree or digital badge—on their LinkedIn profile. Stored certification data could become unusable in the future, she warned.