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Credential Blockchains Could Help Student Mobility. These 4 Efforts Explore How.

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Although research for the new report was largely conducted before the spread of COVID-19, its authors note that the pandemic will likely make learners even “more mobile, moving in and out of formal education as their job, health, and family situations change.” San Jose State Puts Blockchain on the Books How can libraries use ledgers?

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Integrating Technology Meaningfully with Mission Minded Learning

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They grew up with the Internet, social media, and mobile devices. In my book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies with EdTech Missions , I introduce mission minded learning to help students reflect on the power they have to make a positive difference with their use of technology. Don’t forget to get your copy of my book.

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5 Ideas for Teaching Students the Most Important Skill They’ll Need

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Nowadays, mobile technologies are shaping up to be just as ground-breaking. Massive Open Online Courses (Sometimes referred to as MOOCs) – MOOCs are readily available courses that are presented online. MOOCs are not an ideal way for most students to learn.

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The Professor Who Quit His Tenured Job to Make Podcasts and Lecture Videos

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He made the move to his new phase of scholarly life during a rush of enthusiasm for so-called MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses, that big-name colleges were starting to offer low-cost higher education to a wider audience. The vision was partly to be mobile. It looked like there was going to be a big realignment.

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Should Gen-Ed Come Later? New Book Argues For Cheaper And Faster Alternatives to College

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But new book due out this fall argues for the creation of colleges of many shapes and sizes, including a new set of low-cost options that are focused on helping students who just can’t afford a four-year campus experience get a first job. In the book I actually have a matrix where I say [the most important trait is selectivity].

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

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Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models. As online course platforms proliferate, institutions of all shapes and sizes realize that they’ll need to translate content into digital forms.

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In Evolving World of Microcredentials, Students, Colleges and Employers Want Different Things

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There's always been a tension: The employer has always wanted to fund the thing that's most directly relevant to their business—the profit-oriented, the thing that's least expensive and is going to generate a return, versus the employee who needs a mobile credential so they can take it with them throughout their career to the next employer.

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