Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

As a group, we called for a reimagining of community college, including moving toward more alignment with industry and more digital options. An additional growing trend is the alignment of community college credentials and curriculum with non-degree, industry-based credentials.

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Digital Badges MOOC Trends Industry 209

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2021

Their predictions revolve around the continued acceleration of the use of technology in education and work, an increased reliance on educational offerings that are lower cost and more convenient, and a further crumbling of the false dichotomy between short-term credentials and full degrees. Here’s how it breaks down: 1.

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Digital Badges Industry Trends Company 155

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Digital badges, microcredentials and digital credentials… What sets them apart, or are they synonymous? Essentially, these credentials share a few attributes: They are skill-specific and emphasize industry-relevant competencies. That badge gives learners more opportunities in different internships and careers.

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Digital Badges Course Industry EdTech 120

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 4, 2018

The current speed of technological and innovative breakthroughs has led to the coming age of workplace automation, dramatically altering the world of work that our students will enter. In addition to the digital badge awarded at the end of the course, once all requirements have been met we can also send a signed certificate of completion.

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Course Digital Badges Learning Professional Learning 182

edWeb.net

JUNE 8, 2021

As educators and industry partners look ahead to the 2020-21 school year, they’re examining the impact of the pandemic and the potential transformation of all aspects of K-12 education. Finally, educators are not looking for programs on how to use technology but on how the tech can support effective teaching and learning.

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Professional Learning Industry Digital Badges Learning 89

Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Technology can collect and harness more data than ever before. In education, does technology create just as many problems as it solves? But we’ve learned technology alone does not drive higher achievement. Technology must support and empower better teaching and learning. If so, what new challenges have emerged?

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EdTech iPad Chromebook Industry 154

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

Middle school students have used a mix of laser cutters, three-dimensional printers and wood-cutting tools to develop turbochargers and crash test protection devices that solve real-world issues in the automotive industry. How does that look?

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Digital Badges STEM Assessment Industry 162

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

This is especially true when it comes to the growing share of jobs that are technology related and hinge on rapidly-evolving skillsets—which today make up more than a quarter of all job openings, according to data from Burning Glass Technologies.

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Digital Badges Industry Coursera Social Media 81

Educational Technology Guy

APRIL 29, 2013

As the largest digital library of peer-sourced study materials, StudyBlue is inviting students, parents and industry leaders nationwide to join in building a virtual Wall of Thanks to give back to the educators who have made a difference in their lives. With one click, a digital thank-you card is created and displayed as a keepsake.

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Digital Badges Social Media Industry Mobility 124

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Blockchain, the technology that underpins cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, is now a buzzword in nearly every industry ranging from financing to healthcare. And lately, the topic has made its way into discussions around digital credentials in higher education. What’s the hype? What are the risks?

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Education Digital Badges MOOC Industry 82

techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

To develop in-demand skills and streamline employers’ hiring process, Education Design Lab launches the 21st Century Skills Badges after three years of research, design and pilots. The rigor that goes into earning a digital badge provides a helpful indicator of what we can expect to see from that person on the job.”

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Digital Badges Education Social Media Industry 40

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2018

The IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) plans to update its existing standards based on this work. These standards have been traditionally published only as human-readable documents, such as PDFs, that can’t be used directly by education technology tools. K-12 learners.

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Google Academic Standards Education Data 91

Marketplace K-12

JUNE 27, 2016

The three biggest reasons pre-K-12 educators took online professional development courses in the past year were to learn how to use digital devices, how to use the educational software that goes on them, or to find out more about classroom behavior or management, according to a new study. To receive a digital badge: 10 percent.

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Course Study Survey Digital Badges 53

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Within higher ed and between higher ed & industry. Before this technology existed, faculty & staff were making modifications manually so automation helps students, and the faculty and staff who serve them,” Long shared. The work completed in a CBE program could become part of a digital CV.”

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Digital Badges Education Secondary Assessment 66

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

That’s why employers and prospective employees will need to get more comfortable with alternative credentialing like specialized certifications, micro degrees and digital badges. Traditional higher-education institutions and technology companies have a significant role to play as well. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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MOOC Digital Badges Coursera Education 53

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2019

These learners know that digital badges and certificates will make them discoverable in the growing number of search tools that employers use to target very specific skills. IBM and Salesforce are two companies who first used badges to promote skill-building for employee advancement, and that are now using them to find outside talent.

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Digital Badges Coursera Training Company 74

MindShift

JUNE 29, 2015

In a fast-moving field like education technology, it’s worth taking a moment to take stock of new developments, persistent trends and the challenges to effective tech implementation in real classrooms. This macro trend to shake up typical ways of schooling is opening new opportunities for technology to play an even bigger role in education.

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Technology Maker Movement Trends Khan Academy 28

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

says it has developed a system to bring “blockchain” technology–meant to serve as a decentralized-yet-secure system for transmitting data–to education, as the concept slowly begins to attract attention in the K-12 space. Sony Global Education Inc. Goodbye, Middleman?

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Sony Digital Badges Khan Academy Education 40

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

In a national survey , we found that providing academic credit for experience and on-the-job learning was among employers’ top priorities for colleges and universities, alongside other work-integrated learning themes such industry validation and including real-world projects in the curriculum. And that has immense societal benefits.

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Digital Badges Coursera Learning Industry 176

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 9, 2015

Prior Learning Assessment for Educators and Industry. INQ101x: Teaching With Technology and Inquiry: An Open Course For Teachers. Emerging Trends & Technologies in the Virtual K-12 Classroom. Instructional Ideas and Technology Tools for Online Success. Digital Badge: Rockets to the Rescue!

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Coursera Course MOOC OER 40

Educator Innovator

JULY 8, 2014

Khan Academy has been the darling of the tech industry because of its potential to disrupt existing models of educational content delivery. The class is being hosted by Pursuitery , where students can earn digital badges and take part in weekly contests for the next eight weeks.

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Khan Academy Digital Badges Learning Libraries 40

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Maybe, we need to look at educators in a new context of what teaching really is in most schools, and whether it should be given cultural, economic and technological change. Plus, Teachers are supposed to be maestros of all technologies and personalizing separate paths for every single one of their students. Union meetings.

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Khan Academy Academic Standards Software Exercises 145

edWeb.net

APRIL 5, 2022

Partners – Project collaborators are integral to industry-appropriate and academically sound micro-credentials. TECTA’s partners included the Tennessee Board of Regents, Tennessee CAREs Early Head Start Program, Digital Promise, NACE, and IMS Global. Develop stackable micro-credentials that are current with industry trends.

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LMS Training Digital Badges Industry 74

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

ALMA START ( www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies launched an enrollment and admissions management tool called Alma Start. As part of this collaboration, ReadSpeaker’s text-to-speech technology will also be integrated within Blackboard Ally as an offline audio alternative for course content.

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Epson Blackboard Pearson STEM 52

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The changing market also sets the stage for the emergence of new types of technology solutions and partnerships. Smaller, Faster, Cheaper Prior to the pandemic, learning in the workplace was already growing to include more technology-enabled “ microlearning ” that was less formal and less structured than traditional training programs.

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Learning Training Digital Badges Coursera 169

The Innovative Educator

DECEMBER 23, 2018

She is developing a digital badge micro-certification program that provides new collar job training. To do this she and her team spoke with 200 large, medium, and small employers in the industry. The exact activity that happens in these digital shop classes.

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Digital Badges Common Core Industry Robotics 95

Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

“Digital badges aren’t replacing the bachelor’s degree any time soon,” Inside Higher Ed helpfully points out. “But a growing number of colleges are working with vendors to use badges as an add-on to degrees, to help students display skills and accomplishments that transcripts fail to capture.”

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Education MOOC Facebook Company 40

Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

More on student loans (namely, people in powerful political office with connections to the student loans industry) in the politics of education section above. “ Digital Badges Are Gaining Traction,” according to MIndwire Consulting’s Michael Feldstein. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. ”). .”

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Education Coursera MOOC Udemy 46

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

In this public sabbatical, I have learned a ton of new things, mostly about education research methods and what we know from those methods about how learning spaces interact with pedagogy and technology to affect student learning. But I’m not going to report back on those things for now. Instead, I want to write about my secret sabbatical.

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Steelcase Company Learning Digital Badges 82

Fractus Learning

APRIL 6, 2016

While there are many initiatives that can be implemented in our schools to begin to offer opportunities for our students to grow and learn in different ways, these just scratch the surface of the more important theme of the book – shifting the culture of our schools to utilize technology as a tool to enhance learning and achievement.

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Digital Badges BYOD Learning Maker Movement 40

Fractus Learning

APRIL 6, 2016

While there are many initiatives that can be implemented in our schools to begin to offer opportunities for our students to grow and learn in different ways, these just scratch the surface of the more important theme of the book – shifting the culture of our schools to utilize technology as a tool to enhance learning and achievement.

Digital Badges 40

Digital Badges BYOD Learning Maker Movement 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2017

In January, he was hired to develop apps at the National Center for Telehealth and Technology near Tacoma, Washington. Next fall, students will be able to earn similar certificates for course sequences within the Hospitality Management and Sustainable Building Science Technology degrees. Cost: $900. “I

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Training Company Policies Industry 97

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Elsewhere in MOOC research… From Campus Technology : “Grouping MOOC Students by Communication Mode Doesn’t Help Completion.” Conference of Mayors Resolves to Support Digital Badging ,” says Edsurge. There’s some more research on badges and alternative credentials in the research section below.

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MOOC Education Blackboard OER 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

This is part eight of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In previous years, I’ve looked at how education technology is intertwined with narratives about “ skills ,” “ competencies ,” and “ credentialing.”

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Robotics MOOC Training Industry 59

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

” The New York Times looks at “A Legal Industry Built on Private School Sex Abuse.” Via the Northeastern press office : “ Northeastern University and IBM partnership first to turn digital badges into academic credentials for learners worldwide.” ” The Business of Student Loans. Rural ones.”

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Education Company Data Report 47

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2018

In the decade since HEOA passed, the world of technology and learning has been in a state of constant change. Supporters of innovation have championed approaches like digital badges, alternative credentials, competency-based education (CBE), and work-based learning for the convenience, flexibility, and efficiency they have to offer.

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Outcomes Policies Student Data Privacy Digital Badges 91