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EdTech
IMS Global to Build K-20 Badges with Mozilla
IMS Global Learning Consortium announced the launch of the IMS Digital Credentialing Initiative. The new initiative is aiming to further the adoption, integration and transferability of digital credentials, including badges, within institutions, schools, and corporations.
EdTech
Path To Personalization: Better Models & Better Tests
New developments will mean a gradual reduction in the size of and reliance in heavyweight summative assessment to smaller, less frequent tests that check the validity of local assessments.
EdTech
Post Merger Boundless Will Continue to Offer Open Content
After acquisition by Valore, Boundless will continue to provide open education resources to higher education students
Ed Policy
DLN Report Card Preview: Accelerating Students in Florida
By: Erin Lockett. The Digital Learning Report Card examines each state’s progress in implementing policies that give students access to quality digital learning. These advances promise to revolutionize the current K-12 education model by giving students access to far more courses, and allowing them to learn in their own way and at their own pace. Today we're highlighting progress and sharing success stories from Florida.
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The Future of Personalized Learning is Now
By: Jean Fleming. Measures of Academic Progress Assessment, or MAP test, is a system that gathers inputs from different kinds of assessment, including formative, in-the-moment assessments, and longer interim assessment.
EdTech
RealizeIt Can Make Your Program Adaptive
RealizeIt, based in Dublin and Chicago, can semi-automatically ingest almost any form of learning content and, with a little coaching, can identify prerequisite relationships and build a competency-based sequence of granular learning nodes with assessment gateways.
Personalized Learning
10 Things Parents of High School Juniors Should Start Doing Now
By: Carol Barash. As part of our Smart Parents series, Carol offers 10 tips for parents of high school juniors that go beyond a practical checklist and instead invite an opportunity to connect with your child at this critical age. Recommendations include listening to your child, keeping the doors of communication open, and having fun.
EdTech
The State of Storytelling at SXSWedu
At SXSWedu, storytelling was centered on teachers using stories to enhance engagement and students telling stories to demonstrate skills, explore content, and demonstrate mastery. However, what’s more important when in storytelling was missed at SXSWedu
Ed Policy
How to Transform Convoluted Documents into Accessible School Report Cards
We're excited that the My School Information Design Challenge worked, but re-imagining the way stakeholders consume and interact with school information continues to present a huge opportunity. States are now in the drivers seat!
Leadership
Take A Judo Lesson, Leverage Trends To Make An Impact
Against the backdrop of black swan events, broken politics, and the increasing priority of initiative, here is a recap of relevant trends and judo instructions for impact investors and "edupreneurs" interested in leveraging some of those trends.