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The Beginning of a New Era in the Online Degree Market

Edsurge

The online degree market has been one of the fastest-growing and most resilient segments of American higher education over the last two decades. Today, more than three million students pursue higher education fully online, representing a $20-billion market. According to U.S.

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20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

The Shake Up Learning Blog

Discuss with the decision-makers at your school and/or your Google for Education administrator. Think of ways this could be used in programs both in and outside of your own schools like the YMCA, tutoring programs, community sports, and libraries. Related: Google Classroom Student Selector (Digital Popsicle Sticks!).

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Educators Make, Play, and Connect This Summer

Educator Innovator

But we also know that for many educators summer is a time to collaborate, try new tools, and come up with ideas. Studies have shown that the gap between what high- and low-income families spend on education enrichment has tripled in the last 40 years. Connecting all these activities are digital badges.

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20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

Shake Up Learning

Google has opened up Google Classroom to users outside of G Suite for Education. It’s not a perfect system, but keep in mind that it was designed to protect students and your G Suite for Education accounts. Discuss with the decision-makers at your school and/or your G Suite for Education administrator. Badging Systems.

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COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Digital Blending of Working and Learning

Edsurge

These trends present great risks in a job market that is already polarized and biased toward knowledge work and technology skills, with growing gaps based on educational attainment. There is growing acknowledgement and new evidence that this situation is worsening equity gaps in the job market and within higher education.

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The Microlearning Moment in Workplace Learning

Edsurge

Just as formal education systems made a dramatic shift to digital since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, on-the-job training is changing as well. The same forces that transformed classrooms have accelerated the adoption of more digital learning in workplace training—advancing a trend that was already underway.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Education Politics. US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos appeared in front of a Senate subcommittee this week to talk about Trump’s budget proposal. said Thursday that he is still part of a higher education initiative for President Donald Trump,” Politico reports. ” More via The Chronicle of Higher Education.