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It’s Time to Digitally Transform Community College

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As a group, we called for a reimagining of community college, including moving toward more alignment with industry and more digital options. But are community colleges ready for this digital transformation? Broward College in Florida has been a leader in integrating industry certifications into its degree programs.

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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

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In his latest EdSurge column , Michael Horn laid out how Google Maps offers an aspirational metaphor for what the future of educational tools could look like. Today, Google Maps is an open ecosystem for accurate, real-time geospatial and navigation data.

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What Problems Has Edtech Solved, and What New Ones Did It Create?

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As we bid farewell to the teenage years of the 21st century, we posed these questions and others to longtime industry entrepreneurs, analysts and stakeholders about the highs and lows, wins and woes of the past decade. Open digital badges. In education, does technology create just as many problems as it solves?

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To Better Serve Adult Learners, Eliminate the Barriers Between Work and Learning

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In a national survey , we found that providing academic credit for experience and on-the-job learning was among employers’ top priorities for colleges and universities, alongside other work-integrated learning themes such industry validation and including real-world projects in the curriculum.

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In 2019, What’s REALLY the Definition of a Teacher?

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Causing others to know something is, in fact, at the core of every single industry. The teachers already have to do all that work for the academic standards in that week’s pile to narrow-cast what chapter or software module, discussion questions, what to write a paper on, etc. Debugging software and hardware issues on-the-fly.

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WHAT’S NEW

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Software & Online ACCELERATE LEARNING STEMSCOPES SCIENCE ( www.stemscopes.com ) Accelerate Learning announced a new platform using the best of CNN’s digital content to create a new science education product. EDTHENA ( www.edthena.com ) Edthena has developed a one-click video recording and uploading solution for Google Chrome.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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More on student loans (namely, people in powerful political office with connections to the student loans industry) in the politics of education section above. “ Digital Badges Are Gaining Traction,” according to MIndwire Consulting’s Michael Feldstein. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.