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

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Digital badges. Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges. They are a perfect example of what you get when you simply transfer analog practice to digital form and don’t make use of the advantages of the new medium.

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It’s Time to Digitally Transform Community College

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According to the latest tracking data from the Chronicle of Higher Education, two-year colleges are significantly more likely than other institution types to be planning for a primarily or fully online fall semester. But are community colleges ready for this digital transformation? Department of Education data.

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The Beginning of a New Era in the Online Degree Market

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Department of Education data, out of the thousands of institutions operating online programs, the 100 colleges and universities with the greatest online enrollment accounted for 47 percent of all online students in 2016, up from a 43 percent share in 2012. According to U.S.

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

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

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Crunching Credentials Data Why expend all this effort researching credentials? Yet the data available on non-degree programs is scant. Department of Labor Registered Apprenticeship Partners Information Data System or State Wage Interchange System, according to NSC.

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

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This is already evident in the latest national job-market data, which shows a 15 percent unemployment rate for high school graduates with no college and 13 percent for those with some college or an associate degree—compared to 7 percent for individuals with a bachelor’s or higher.

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The Microlearning Moment in Workplace Learning

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The boom in short-form digital learning in the workplace doesn’t mean that classroom-based corporate training or more structured on-the-job learning is going away. But it does mean that the expectations of employers and workers are shifting, and that data and algorithms are driving and measuring what workers have learned.

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