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Earning a Degree Online: What You Need to Know
By: Dr. Robert Mendenhall. The typical college student of the 21st century is older and self-supporting and must balance work, family, and school. If you’re planning to become part of this nontraditional student majority, going to college online can be a great option for you. There are many choices and providers, but they are not all the same. Here are some things to know before you choose a school.
Building Micro-credential Momentum
Now that a growing number of organizations are creating and offering micro-credentials, the new challenge is to make them more valuable to educators by increasing the number of states, districts, and networks that recognize them as signals of professional growth.
Moving PD from Seat-Time to Demonstrated Competency Using Micro-credentials
Micro-credentials are a digital form of certification that indicate when a person has demonstrated competency in a specific skill set. This resource produced by Getting Smart in partnership with BloomBoard, is the essential educators’ guide to implementing powerful professional learning with micro-credentials.
What You Need to Know When Developing Micro-Credentials
With over 300 submissions from teachers during the implementation this fall, the Friday Institute has learned many lessons that provide insight for those considering or developing micro-credentials.
Innovative High School Breaks New Ground with Career Education
By: Seth Livingston. Available statewide and tuition-free, Idaho College and Career Readiness Academy provides students exposure to technical and specialty trade skills. They are blazing the path to better career education for virtual high schools, here is the story of one student's’ experience.
Getting Smart Podcast | Rethinking Educator Professional Development with Micro-credentials
Tom Vander Ark sits down with Jennifer Kabaker, Director of Educator Micro-Credentials at Digital Promise and Jason Lange, Bloomboard CEO, to talk specifics about what micro-credentials look like, how research can be used to support personalization of teacher development, and why this will impact the future of educator development.
Nine Ways States Can Create Competency-Based Education Systems
By: Dale Frost. Our public education system needs to enable competency-based learning through an alignment of both policy and practice. Moving from a time-based system to a learner-centered system requires systemic transformation.
Beyond Badges: Why Personalized Learning Advocates Need to Care about Blockchain
By: Doug Levin. While digital badging and its underlying technical approach points a way forward to solving some of the issues associated with a ‘distributed proof of learning’ system, there has emerged another approach that might hold even more promise: blockchain technology.
Multiple Pathways to Competency-Based Education?
Competency education is a paradigm shift – it is a change in the underlying assumptions. This means there has to be a way to shake off the old assumptions, which is tricky to do when all of us have grown up in the traditional education system.
8 Online Learning Trends that are Changing the Learning Landscape
Seeking access to more and better learning opportunities, a state official called and asked about next generation of K-12 online learning. We see eight trends--some emerging from k-12 providers, some from HigherEd--improving online learning.