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Guest post: Caston Binger Explains How the Digital Revolution Has Transformed Education

EdTech4Beginners

For school, educators can now customize instruction to meet the needs of individual students, and they can communicate with parents and guardians more easily. They can now send messages and files electronically and connect with students through social media. One great example of this is the website Coursera.

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Employer Credentials and Community Colleges: A Look Behind Google’s IT Support Certificate Program

Edsurge

Despite their often limited budgets, the innovative nature and adaptability of community colleges makes them well-positioned to meet the training needs for aspiring tech professionals. For community colleges, continuing to partner with industry is a natural extension of their mission to provide training and pathways to employment.

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How to push past limiting beliefs to uncover what’s truly possible in your teaching

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Parents never show up to meetings and events. As educators, holding limiting beliefs is doubly damaging because not only do they hinder us from setting and achieving our own goals, they hold students back from meeting their goals and reaching their potential. Students’ care more about social media and games than their school work.

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How to push past limiting beliefs to uncover what’s truly possible in your teaching

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Parents never show up to meetings and events. As educators, holding limiting beliefs is doubly damaging because not only do they hinder us from setting and achieving our own goals, they hold students back from meeting their goals and reaching their potential. Students’ care more about social media and games than their school work.

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Notes from Leadership for the Digital Age with Alan November - Day 2

EdTechSandyK

Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. Teachers will write their own questions and goals that they want to meet each fall and spring. November advises superintendents to have a student advisory panel that they meet with them once a month. Use every bit of social media that you can.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The district failed to meet its burden of proof and interpreted a state law in a way that is ‘offensive to fundamental rights of free speech,’ the judge said.” More on Coursera and certification in the certification section below.). ” More via Techcrunch. ” Accreditation and Certification.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Headline changed from “ Coursera ’s Update Will Eliminate Hundreds of Courses” to “Coursera’s Update Will Migrate Hundreds of Courses to a New Platform.” ” Coursera, initially only emailing former students about their old course work, decided finally to blog about its platform change.