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Game On: Teachers Should Continue to Gamify Classrooms

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Several years ago, gamification was an emerging trend and even named one of the Horizon Report’s Top 10 things driving educational change. Teachers can create digital breakouts using several Google functions , including Sites, Forms, Drawing and Slides. It validates their skills by giving them a badge to display.

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More Employers Are Awarding Credentials. Is A Parallel Higher Education System Emerging?

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It’s not hard to find prominent examples: • Google recently announced an expansion of the company’s popular Google Career Certificates portfolio. IBM runs a digital badging program , now in its seventh year, that has awarded 3.7 For example, partnerships with scores of community colleges are central to Google’s approach.

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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.

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

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After a decade and a half of failing to arrive as early as we’d imagined, the pervasive 1:1 classroom snuck up on us in the last couple of years—when Google Chromebooks dropped below $150 and the cloud greatly reduced the need for maintenance expense and expertise. Open digital badges. But the consultant was right.

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

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To match the changing, unpredictable nature of today’s economy and digital landscape, these programs should aim for flexibility and innovative paradigms. One example of this is the newest trend of “ digital badges.” Or must they take a leave of absence? This is a vital issue. research project at Stanford.

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

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Signature examples of this trend include Walmart’s Live Better U program , Starbucks’ College Achievement Plan and Amazon’s Career Choice program. In a tight economy, many major employers are launching or expanding “ education as benefit ” strategies to retain and develop their workforces.

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The Key Role of Tech in Accessibility for All

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Online training is useful to get staff up to speed on current legislation and trends, but face-to-face meetings, like working with a technology coach, are imperative to ensuring each student’s needs are met. The district was one of three schools recognized nationally by ISTE for its digital badge program. About the Host.