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

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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. As the conversation continued, Joosten discussed the importance of design in online course development, a primary finding in the scan.

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What’s the Right Price for an Online Degree?

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I was among those who argued that if students receive the same education from the same faculty, leading—more or less—to the same outcomes, tuition should be the same for both. As prices rose at most post-secondary institutions over the last decades, tuition at these colleges fell.

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

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For example, a leader from the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development explained during the webinar how her state is creating a digital search tool that lets people select among all the credential options available to them, sorting by occupation, program location and graduate outcomes. provide credentials: 59,692.

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

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Its answer: one that offers evidence of competencies and corresponds clearly with positive employment outcomes in fields that have substantial job opportunities. The report breaks this down into more detail, calling for credentials associated with evidence of “substantial job opportunities” and employment and earnings outcomes.

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Asynchronous Learning or Live Lessons? Which One Works Better for Me?

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Research studies don’t provide strong evidence that synchronous learning universally leads to better student engagement and learning outcomes than asynchronous learning or vice versa. For example, most of the enrolled students in fully asynchronous MOOCs are adults, and even in this context, completion can be challenging.

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Remote Work May Transform Higher Education. But Will Printers and Alexa Undermine Its Privacy?

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SHEEO says these records are tied to how states analyze student progress, completions and outcomes. Postsecondary and Secondary Credentials ” report. The nonprofit tallies 967,734 unique secondary and post-secondary credentials in the United States. Postsecondary and Secondary Credentials.”

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9 Great Nonprofits to Support School Leaders

Tom Murray

The Alliance focuses on America’s six million most at-risk secondary school students—those in the lowest achievement quartile—who are most likely to leave school without a diploma or to graduate unprepared for a productive future. National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP). Connect: www.nassp.org , @NASSP.