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Credential Blockchains Could Help Student Mobility. These 4 Efforts Explore How.

Edsurge

The initiative aims to study whether and how decentralized digital ledgers can give students and workers more control over their academic and job records and improve the flow of data among schools, colleges and employers, leaders told EdSurge in February. questions about data ownership and the downsides of permanent records.

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Do We Really Want Academic Permanent Records to Live Forever on Blockchain?

Edsurge

The system of recording information secures digital data in a way that makes it traceable and difficult to alter. The technology can be used to authenticate the identities of people, to determine ownership or to verify data. Blockchain technology can also be used to store more than formal certification data.

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Mobile learning and personal metrics

Learning with 'e's

There are formal contexts for mobile learning, but it is in the leisure time/travelling/down time that mobile learning still comes to the fore. Mobile devices also afford users the ability to annotate, organise and share content once they have found it, within their community of interest.

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EdTech Acronyms Explained

EdTech4Beginners

MLD – Mobile Learning Devices. MLearning – Mobile Learning. MOOC – Massively Open Online Course (an online course which has video lectures, problem solving activities, texts and an online community of fellow learners). IOT – Internet of Things (Connecting devices to a network i.e. lights, phones, TVs). UX – User Experience.

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How to choose the right solution platform for virtual campus management.

Linways Technologies

Any solution that you choose to trust your whole institution’s data should be dependable. Data-Driven Results As an institution, the way you treat education and manage it is different from MOOCs or short-term online courses. There are intricate levels of hierarchy, complex workflows, and data-driven decision making involved.

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How AI Can Compliment Educators, Not Replace Them

EdNews Daily

One of these advantages is the company’s investment in big data research and expertise. One of online education’s earliest attempts to solve this issue on a global scale came in the form of MOOCs (massive open online courses).

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It’s 2020: Have Digital Learning Innovations Trends Changed?

Edsurge

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. a mixed methodological approach so that we're gathering qualitative data that tells the story about the quantitative findings.

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