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A Nonprofit Spent Five Years Counting a Million Credentials. What Does It All Add Up To?

Edsurge

Still, advocates leading different but related efforts to make higher education and workforce training programs better for participants and employers have different ideas about what transparency really looks like when it comes to credentials. Colleges could play a role in sharing information with the learning-and-training ecosystem, too.

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It’s 2020: Have Digital Learning Innovations Trends Changed?

Edsurge

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design.

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

Edsurge

Both reports note that most jobs available today require some education or training beyond a high school diploma, and that on average, workers who have post-secondary credentials earn more than those who don’t. Crunching Credentials Data Why expend all this effort researching credentials?

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VHS Learning Partners with Continental Han Feng Network Technology to Develop Chinese Language Program

eSchool News

CHF and VHS Learning are working collaboratively to develop Chinese 1 and Chinese 2 courses during the first year of this multi-year partnership and VHS Learning is training qualified teachers in preparation for releasing both courses in September 2021. “We Courses are approved for initial eligibility by NCAA.

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US Edtech Investments Peak Again With $1.45 Billion Raised in 2018

Edsurge

Source: EdSurge Higher Education & Post-Secondary Post-secondary tools altogether saw a notable bump in funding. Trilogy Education raised $50 million to partner with college and universities to offer short-term workforce-training bootcamp programs focused on digital skills.

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Why the Lumina Foundation Is Betting Big on New Kinds of Credentials

Edsurge

that is focused specifically on post-secondary education—anything beyond high school. We estimate about 65 percent of jobs in 2025 will require some form of post-secondary education. They are not always accessible to those people that have no training, and no education, and have low resources to even pay for them.

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Another glimpse of European higher education and technology

Bryan Alexander

A Maltese education leader dove into their secondary school laptop initiative. MOOCs… ah, this is fascinating. Once more I saw how the MOOC hype crash is limited to the United States. Presenter after presenter showed MOOC projects under way. They are partnering with numerous organizations and NGOs, like this one.

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