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More Employers Are Awarding Credentials. Is A Parallel Higher Education System Emerging?

Edsurge

IBM runs a digital badging program , now in its seventh year, that has awarded 3.7 The idea of major companies becoming educational providers—both competing with and partnering with colleges and universities—understandably captivates many in the public, as well as those in media and policy circles.

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It’s Time to Digitally Transform Community College

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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.

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OPINION: Our workforce must be ready to help growing numbers of students who come to school learning English

The Hechinger Report

Yet despite some efforts to document the experiences and outcomes of multilingual learners in the district, a legal monitor noted last year that Boston’s school leaders had defied requests for records showing how it spent its funds. At the close of 2023, 75 Rhode Island educators were enrolled in the new and cutting-edge program.

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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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As the Higher Ed Opportunity Act Turns 10, Here’s How the Landscape Has Changed

Edsurge

But higher education’s more recent, concerted push toward a focus on student outcomes and completion was really just beginning. States have moved to strengthen performance-based funding models and reward institutions for the student outcomes they produce, instead of simply enrollment. Free College: Showing ‘Promise’?

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The FREE Lesson Plans and Resources You Aren’t Using! (but should be) – SULS0148

Shake Up Learning

They are growing a collection of high-quality resources with clear learning outcomes, teacher lesson plans, and student resources. When our students can see themselves in the content it leads to greater student engagement and better learning outcomes. See: Copyright Policy. How do I get started with OER? About Rich Dixon.

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

Edsurge

Wouldn’t a generous remote work policy help out faculty such as parents with young kids who are struggling to find and pay for child care? The sales leaders had the results of dozens of local bond issue elections memorized, because the outcomes of those elections determine where to focus on furniture sales to schools.