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New Social Media Micro-credentials Support Social Mobility for Adult Learners

Digital Promise

In the quickly shifting workforce, digital skills have become fundamental for social mobility. Each module has an aligned micro-credential that learners can earn to verify their skills and signal to employers that they possess these important digital skills.

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Designing Pathways for Rural Learners Using Micro-credentials: Four Case Studies

Digital Promise

In our latest publication, Micro-credentials for Social Mobility in Rural Postsecondary Communities: A Landscape Report , Digital Promise conducted four in-depth case studies to explore how postsecondary institutions are using micro-credentials to create real-time career pathways for rural learners.

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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 Digital credentialing platform Credly reports that the number of organizations issuing industry and workforce credentials is up 83 percent since the pandemic. million credentials to date, growing at a 61 percent pace from 2019 to 2020.

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Unlocking Skills: What Learners and Employers Need to Know About Microcredentials

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Digital badges, microcredentials and digital credentials… What sets them apart, or are they synonymous? Essentially, these credentials share a few attributes: They are skill-specific and emphasize industry-relevant competencies.

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StudyBlue announces annual teacher appreciation program “Thank a Teacher a Latte.”

Educational Technology Guy

Mobile and social study platform, StudyBlue today announced the launch of its annual teacher appreciation program “Thank a Teacher a Latte.” With one click, a digital thank-you card is created and displayed as a keepsake. In addition, any teacher or school staff member may be recognized.

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Can Competency-Based Education Demonstrate Mastery Across a Lifetime? #DLNchat

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Within higher ed and between higher ed & industry. Many #DLNchat -ters agreed that digital portfolios were one way to show skill mastery, but needed to go further. Keith Bevacqua shared this idea: “Perhaps by archiving full work sets after a course, not just providing a digital badge. Grann didn’t think so.

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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

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The LTSC is also working on related standards for mobile learning platforms, adaptive instructional systems and augmented reality learning environments. That could allow for better alignment between a university’s digital competency frameworks, and what is used by the profession or industry that a student will enter.

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