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It’s Time to Digitally Transform Community College

Edsurge

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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3 Big Issues We Heard About at SXSWedu

Wired Campus

Speaking at a separate session, he cited the increasing flows of data to which colleges have access, including from learning-management systems, student-success systems, and MOOCs. “My So the organization administering the credential is creating more-specific versions focused on certain industries. New Forms of Credentials.

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The Microlearning Moment in Workplace Learning

Edsurge

Another key dynamic is the emergence of large-scale online learning platforms such as publicly traded companies Coursera and 2U ( now combined with EdX), which are developing a rich ecosystem of courses, microcredentials and full degrees that employers are adopting as a resource for their employees.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Education Dive makes claims about “ MOOCs as tools for equity in under-resourced high schools.” ” Elsewhere, more claims about “the global poor” and MOOCs (and other ed-tech companies) in Edsurge. .”

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What I Learned On My ‘Secret Sabbatical’ As a Scholar-in-Residence at a Private Company

Edsurge

We need all the help we can get, and this means getting over whatever squeamishness we may have about the private sector and industry and beginning to look at what companies do, to learn their language and adapt and adopt anything that looks like it could be useful. One such practice I saw at Steelcase was remote work.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

As Stephen Downes comments , “I find it interesting that they refer throughout to ‘ openly licensed educational materials ’ rather than ‘open educational resources’ – I wonder what the reasoning was behind that.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Rebrand.

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