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Pearson’s Connections Academy Launches New College and Career Prep Initiative

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The career readiness initiatives for high school students will offer an innovative new tri-credit approach where courses can deliver: High school credit from Connections Academy Industry-recognized micro-credentials on Coursera, and Eligibility for college credit toward over 150 bachelor’s degree programs in the U.S.

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The school that connects STEM, badging, and life beyond the classroom

eSchool News

To make Competency X a success, it was vital that we know which foundational science-based skills industry partners seek in employees and interns. To make Competency X a success, it was vital that we know which foundational science-based skills industry partners seek in employees and interns. So, how do we do it?

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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

Edsurge

Dozens of credentialing institutions and quality assurance bodies are already posting information on the registry, which includes different kinds of credentials, from degrees, certificates and certifications to licenses, badges, and micro-credentials.

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Can Competency-Based Education Demonstrate Mastery Across a Lifetime? #DLNchat

Edsurge

Within higher ed and between higher ed & industry. Many #DLNchat -ters agreed that digital portfolios were one way to show skill mastery, but needed to go further. Keith Bevacqua shared this idea: “Perhaps by archiving full work sets after a course, not just providing a digital badge.

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

EdNews Daily

Causing others to know something is, in fact, at the core of every single industry. It’s librarians that are supposed to curate and guide further studies and deeper dives or sideways jumps to secondary topics. Giving students gold stars or digital badges. Debugging software and hardware issues on-the-fly.

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3 Big Issues We Heard About at SXSWedu

Wired Campus

. — Student privacy, easier-to-use digital tools for instructors, and efforts to offer alternative credentials were some of the most-talked-about topics this week at the South by Southwest Edu conference, an offshoot of the popular South by Southwest music festival. Mitchell L. New Forms of Credentials. It can make it trite,” he added.

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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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