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4 Digital learning trends for Higher Education

Neo LMS

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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Game On: Teachers Should Continue to Gamify Classrooms

EdTech Magazine

Several years ago, gamification was an emerging trend and even named one of the Horizon Report’s Top 10 things driving educational change. Finally, microcredentials or digital badging are another terrific way to make learning more fun. Digital badging is a tool used in professional development to give teachers tangible goals.

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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 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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The Professional Learning Sweet Spot

A Principal's Reflections

It is crucial always to align any professional learning with current trends and needs. On-going and job-embedded experiences lead to sustained changes to practice and improve student outcomes when it comes to results. A dynamic mash-up of workshops and coaching definitely falls into the sweet spot.

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It’s Time to Digitally Transform Community College

Edsurge

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

Edsurge

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

Edsurge

Digital badges. In fact, I think some of the biggest edtech trends have been rather. Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges. Employers don’t know what to do with digital badges. OER and open books. underwhelming.