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4 Digital learning trends for Higher Education

Neo LMS

Instructors can use personalized learning platforms to create online courses and assign competencies to each learning activity. Students then receive personalised recommendations based on their progress and can choose how to be assessed. The alternative to four-year degrees comes in the form of digital credentials.

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Student Reflection with Digital Portfolios

Teacher Reboot Camp

The teachers are very new to web tools, developing Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) and are currently teaching full time. After the course, they have contributed to our collaborative Pinterest boards, created and shared on Twitter, attempted missions and received digital badges, and kept digital portfolios.

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Student Reflection with Digital Portfolios

Teacher Reboot Camp

The teachers are very new to web tools, developing Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) and are currently teaching full time. After the course, they have contributed to our collaborative Pinterest boards, created and shared on Twitter, attempted missions and received digital badges, and kept digital portfolios.

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Agency: Important for Students and Educators

A Principal's Reflections

Various pathways to personalize learning and make it more personal are also emphasized. Educators should have more choice over how they learn themselves. Accountability for learning is ensured through a vetting process and the badge represents the successful achievement of a learning goal.

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Micro-credentials for teacher PD: Why? What? How?

Neo LMS

But I digress… technology, specifically in the form of micro-credentials (sometimes called digital badging) has emerged not only as a powerful, accessible and appropriate way to learn online, but is also allows teachers to manage their time and resources better (keep in mind many teachers pay for PD out their own pocket).

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There Are 700K+ Credentials — and Counting. Which Ones Are ‘Quality’?

Edsurge

Credential Engine hopes its database will eventually help people discern which credentials offer the most value for personal learning and employment opportunities. We haven’t had the ability to look across all credentials to allow us to have some sense of how to make the best determination of quality,” Cheney says.

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

Edsurge

Jessie Woolley-Wilson, CEO of DreamBox Learning Jessie Woolley-Wilson (CEO, DreamBox Learning): In the past, educators were focused on how to get more devices in the classroom. Open digital badges. What problems have we solved—and what new ones have we created? Certain interoperability efforts.

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