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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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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

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In other words, statements within PDF documents cannot be reliably referenced in information systems and digital content. Something is usually lost in translation when content publishers and software developers try to put state standards into their own databases.

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

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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. Debugging software and hardware issues on-the-fly. Giving students gold stars or digital badges.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Or the company will have to start charging for the software. 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. And “free” doesn’t last. 3D Printing. I know, I know.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

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I’ve also written a separate article listing some of the various events that happened in the for-profit college industry this year – closures, lawsuits, sales, and the like. MIT will issue digital diplomas on the blockchain. And Northeastern has teamed up with IBM to put digital badges on the blockchain.