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

Edsurge

Digital badges. Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges. They are a perfect example of what you get when you simply transfer analog practice to digital form and don’t make use of the advantages of the new medium.

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The Beginning of a New Era in the Online Degree Market

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Additionally, in another example of blending of online and in-person education, Coursera has begun a pilot offering its online MOOC courses to students at its campus partners. What started as a trickle of pilots has now become a growing tidal wave— with approximately 40 MOOC-based degrees now available worldwide.

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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. Better state-level coordination could also help.

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20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

The Shake Up Learning Blog

Related: Google Classroom Student Selector (Digital Popsicle Sticks!). Badging Systems. Digital Badging as become a fun way for teachers and students to show off their accomplishments. Organizing and tracking badges could easily be managed through Google Classroom. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC).

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Higher Education Joins the Blockchain Party

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A person’s records are at hand whenever he or she is, for example, looking for a new job. He pointed out that anyone may put false information—like a degree or digital badge—on their LinkedIn profile. Komarny answered that fraud is serious problem in countries such as China, but that it frequently is a challenge in the U.S.

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Millennials: The Straw That Will Stir Higher Education’s Next Disruption

EdNews Daily

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. To match the changing, unpredictable nature of today’s economy and digital landscape, these programs should aim for flexibility and innovative paradigms.

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Educators Make, Play, and Connect This Summer

Educator Innovator

Connecting all these activities are digital badges. Designed by the Mozilla Foundation, open digital badges are a new form of credentialing for the digital age. Participating organizations design the badges, outlining the skills kids will learn and the pathways they’ll take to acquire those skills.

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