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4 Digital learning trends for Higher Education

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4 Digital learning trends for Higher Education. So let’s explore a few online learning trends that I think are currently shaping how colleges and universities will prepare students for the future. The alternative to four-year degrees comes in the form of digital credentials. Change is inevitable. Artificial Intelligence.

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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 Perhaps most significant, this trend represents employers stepping in to fill the skills gap and build learning options to create the digital workforce of the future. These motivations and business model questions are important.

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Higher Ed Should Pay Attention to the Corporate World’s Growing Use of Skills Data

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And government leaders are also pushing the trend: many state governors , for instance, have adopted skills-based hiring for state positions, and the U.S. This new horizon of microcredentials and digitized skills data will require an evolved edtech infrastructure — some of which is incremental, and some of which is more substantial.

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It’s Time to Digitally Transform Community College

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While high-resolution data for community colleges isn’t available, we can see evidence for this in proxies such as Google search trends , consumers’ growing openness and intention to study online , booming MOOC enrollment , and publicly-traded online learning company enrollment results.

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The Winners and Filmstrips of An (Almost) Decade in Education Technology

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So with these guidelines in mind, I’ve chosen six areas where edtech has made an impact this decade: Learning Management Systems. Digital badges. Adaptive learning systems. In fact, I think some of the biggest edtech trends have been rather. Employers don’t know what to do with digital badges.

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

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Many are first-generation and lower-income learners who have historically lacked the support systems to succeed in a traditional higher ed setting. Signature examples of this trend include Walmart’s Live Better U program , Starbucks’ College Achievement Plan and Amazon’s Career Choice program.

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The Microlearning Moment in Workplace Learning

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Just as formal education systems made a dramatic shift to digital since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, on-the-job training is changing as well. The same forces that transformed classrooms have accelerated the adoption of more digital learning in workplace training—advancing a trend that was already underway.

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