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4 Digital learning trends for Higher Education

Neo LMS

4 Digital learning trends for Higher Education. So let’s explore a few online learning trends that I think are currently shaping how colleges and universities will prepare students for the future. The alternative to four-year degrees comes in the form of digital credentials. Change is inevitable. Artificial Intelligence.

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Game On: Teachers Should Continue to Gamify Classrooms

EdTech Magazine

Several years ago, gamification was an emerging trend and even named one of the Horizon Report’s Top 10 things driving educational change. Finally, microcredentials or digital badging are another terrific way to make learning more fun. Digital badging is a tool used in professional development to give teachers tangible goals.

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The Professional Learning Sweet Spot

A Principal's Reflections

It is crucial always to align any professional learning with current trends and needs. On-going and job-embedded experiences lead to sustained changes to practice and improve student outcomes when it comes to results. A dynamic mash-up of workshops and coaching definitely falls into the sweet spot.

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More Employers Are Awarding Credentials. Is A Parallel Higher Education System Emerging?

Edsurge

IBM runs a digital badging program , now in its seventh year, that has awarded 3.7 Perhaps most significant, this trend represents employers stepping in to fill the skills gap and build learning options to create the digital workforce of the future. These motivations and business model questions are important.

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It’s Time to Digitally Transform Community College

Edsurge

While high-resolution data for community colleges isn’t available, we can see evidence for this in proxies such as Google search trends , consumers’ growing openness and intention to study online , booming MOOC enrollment , and publicly-traded online learning company enrollment results.

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

Edsurge

Signature examples of this trend include Walmart’s Live Better U program , Starbucks’ College Achievement Plan and Amazon’s Career Choice program. In a tight economy, many major employers are launching or expanding “ education as benefit ” strategies to retain and develop their workforces.

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Predictions for 2021: An Acceleration of 2020?

Edsurge

Lest 2020 be forgot and never brought to mind—a hope more than a few of us hold—existing trends that accelerated during the pandemic will continue in 2021. If these three positive trends do indeed grow in 2021, then perhaps we will take a cup of kindness yet with us from 2020.