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It’s Time to Digitally Transform Community College

Edsurge

Community college has even risen to a key policy point in national and state politics, with politicians touting plans and creating models for “free college ,” which often mean tuition-free options for community college as a pathway to four-year degrees or other credentials. But are community colleges ready for this digital transformation?

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20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

The Shake Up Learning Blog

This powerful tool can provide a space for teacher-to-teacher collaboration, professional learning and support, parent communication, and even special projects and enrichment classes for students. Related: Google Classroom Student Selector (Digital Popsicle Sticks!). Badging Systems. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC).

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Online PD Courses Help Educators Understand Ed-Tech, Classroom Management, Study Finds

Marketplace K-12

’ and if so, who’s taking them, what are they taking, and why,” according to Nycole Stawinoga, the education policy and program manager for ETIN. Most often selected tools used to teach the professional learning courses were: Videos: 76 percent. To receive a digital badge: 10 percent. Audio: 72 percent.

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20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

Shake Up Learning

Badging Systems. Digital Badging as become a fun way for teachers and students to show off their accomplishments. Organizing and tracking badges could easily be managed through Google Classroom. Of course, Google Classroom would also make a great tool for the lit circles within our classes and on our campus.

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To Better Serve Adult Learners, Eliminate the Barriers Between Work and Learning

Edsurge

Non-Degree Microcredentials as Pathways to Lifelong Learning and Degrees From digital badges and nanodegrees, to MicroMasters and new types of certificates, there’s an explosion of professionally-oriented microcredential offerings , and employers are increasingly aware of and accepting of these educational options.

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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. Austin, Tex. Mitchell L. New Forms of Credentials.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The US Department of Education announced it was launching “a pilot to test rigorously the effectiveness of more flexible loan counseling policies on federal student loan borrowers.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Remember when the World Economic Forum was super-into MOOCs?