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MIT Starts University Group to Build New Digital Credential System

Edsurge

When a college goes out of business , all of its alumni can suddenly find themselves in an unexpected dilemma: How can graduates prove they actually earned their degrees when no one is left at the institution to send academic transcripts to prospective employers or graduate schools? Why create yet another body of digital credentials?

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9 Reasons You Should Join the Free Goal Minded Teacher Online Course!

Teacher Reboot Camp

Any teacher is invited to join and walk through the steps of learning how to regularly set instructional goals and transform the teaching and learning in their classes. Learning how to set achievable, short-term goals is so powerful! Learn how to collaborate with teachers worldwide! Participate and learn in various ways!

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20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

Shake Up Learning

How to Manage Multiple Google Accounts. SAT/ACT Study Groups. When it comes time to prepare for the SAT and ACT, often times students will form study groups across the area or region. How fun would it be to teach and collaborate with another teacher on another continent?!!! Badging Systems. After School Programs.

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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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Give Your Traditional Syllabus a Needed Makeover!

Teacher Reboot Camp

Check out their article, How to Create an Infographic Syllabus. I actually did this for one of my Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Find out more about mission minded learning in my new book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom. Piktochart is a free infographic tool.

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3 Big Issues We Heard About at SXSWedu

Wired Campus

The document was created primarily with secondary education in mind, but among its supporters are some higher-education groups, including the Institute for Higher Education Policy. Mitchell L. My colleagues in the learning sciences are just thrilled that these new waterfalls of data” will allow them new windows into pedagogy, he said.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“But he said the initiative is different from the group he had been tapped to lead in late January.” DeVos' Chief of Staff Josh Venable was director of special projects for Windquest Group, DeVos' family investment office, until January [link] — Caitlin Emma (@caitlinzemma) June 7, 2017.