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How Well Do Soft-skill Badges Work for Job Seekers? New Study Aims to Find Out.

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To help colleges teach the character traits and interpersonal skills that companies crave, nonprofit Education Design Lab has worked since 2013 to create curriculum and assessments that culminate in students earning digital badges intended to attract hiring managers.

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

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As it turns out, the share of American higher ed enrollment that is made up of adults or those who study part-time peaked in the early 1990s at 44 percent of all higher ed enrollment. As more colleges face the reality of a declining traditional student population, there’s a common belief that adult students are where the growth is.

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

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IBM runs a digital badging program , now in its seventh year, that has awarded 3.7 Strada Education Network’s recent national consumer surveys have found that the most popular option for American adults considering additional education or training is pursuing a “certificate, certification, or license.”

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

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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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COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Digital Blending of Working and Learning

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In a 2018 survey of hiring leaders , we found that online pre-hire assessment was the single most likely “disruptor” of the reliance on degrees in hiring, followed by simulation-based hiring. It is still early in the adoption of these digital hiring practices—and how employers deploy them is still very much a “black box.”

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There Are 700K+ Credentials — and Counting. Which Ones Are ‘Quality’?

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But the studies differ in their approaches to analyzing the myriad options. Credential Engine is surveying the landscape first, trying to develop a comprehensive dataset before coming to any particular conclusions. “We

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How micro-credentials could have a chance

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New survey delves into how teachers would use micro-credentials and examines how widely-known the concept is. Micro-credentials could have a hugely beneficial impact on teacher professional development, according to a new study — provided some big ifs swing in their favor.