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Educator Micro-credentials Policy Map Provides an Update of State and District Use of Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

State-Level Policy and/or Guidelines : Policies supporting micro-credentials are in place at a state-wide level through legislation or the state’s Department of Education. States are continuing to develop policies and guidelines to support districts looking to leverage micro-credentials for professional learning.

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Udemy, an Online Course Platform Where Anyone Can Teach, Keeps Raising Money. What's Next?

Edsurge

So, what are its plans, and how does it see the market for online courses changing after the pandemic? The company lets anyone create and offer an online course on its platform, which has become the largest of its kind. But the platform also features courses on topics that focus more on hobbies or personal development.

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Massive Study of Online Teaching Ends With Surprising — and ‘Deflating’ — Result

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The study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, was meant to show that small behavioral interventions, like asking students in a pre-course survey to describe when and how they planned to fit the required course work into their lives, would significantly improve completion rates in large online classes.

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The Winners and Filmstrips of An (Almost) Decade in Education Technology

Edsurge

So with these guidelines in mind, I’ve chosen six areas where edtech has made an impact this decade: Learning Management Systems. Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges. But today, edtech is commonly understood to mean digital technology.

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Assessment strategies in higher education- What are formative and summative approaches in student assessment?

Linways Technologies

It is recommended by AICET in its assessment guidelines that “at institution/ University level, upper limit need to arrive for lower order skills (for example, no more than 40% weightage for knowledge-oriented questions)”. Additionally, Bloom’s taxonomy can be used to create learning objectives aligned with the course’s outcomes.

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Stanford Calls for Responsible Use of Student Data in Higher Ed

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Consider, for example, what might happen if data show that students who fit a certain profile struggle in a core course. The guidelines center on four core ideas. moment about the need for a big data code of ethics came soon after “MOOC mania” struck higher education in 2012. Responsible uses. For Stevens, his “aha!”

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New Teachers Won’t Save Us

The Thinking Stick

One of the main issues I see is that technology, in many programs, is a separate course and is not integrated into each of the subject/classes that a pre-service educator takes. How to update your “class website” in a manner that is appropriate, within school guidelines and gets your message across to your community.