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The Potential of Non-Degree Credentials to Reinvent Workforce Education | The EvoLLLution
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50 Tongue Twisters to improve pronunciation in English · engVid
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Pronunciation Practice with Tongue Twisters – Espresso English
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A focus on skills increasingly links higher education with employment - University World News
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Stackable Credentials Meet the Needs of Students and Society | The EvoLLLution
- These were students who were earning degrees that were their second or third step on their postsecondary education pathway.
- Among the 25-and-up group, we found that the percentage of first-time graduates fell from about 62 percent of all degrees awarded to 55 percent. Barely more than half of the awards going to older adults were their first degrees.
- The Recession Cohort was a wave of first-time college goers who might have gone right out of high school into the labor market, working in the construction industry or in the retail industry, and didn’t see the need for any college at all. When the recession hit, those were the individuals who were, in many cases, the first to get laid off. As such, they were also the first to enroll in college as a result of the recession.
- That explains the surge of first-time degrees that were awarded.
- These were students looking to retool and reskill, who maybe had an associate’s degree or a certificate and were coming back to get something more.
- This whole idea of chunking postsecondary education is becoming much more acceptable.
- Absolutely, students started building their own stackable pathways.
- There are more flexible and, in many cases, more cost-effective pathways to a degree than ever before, particularly at the bachelor’s level.
- That’s another trend that’s important to note—these are students who are much more sensitive to debt and concerned about the cost of a four-year degree than traditional students
- That’s up from 17 percent just a few years earlier in 2011. That’s a pretty dramatic and steady rise in the number of students who are looking at their degree pursuit as a pathway from the community college to the university.
- Many of these students are figuring out their education pathways on their own right now. If we look at the success rate of students building their own, informal stackable pathways, it’s remarkable that so many students are succeeding in spite of the pretty long odds they face.
- when we look at the data, it is disadvantaged students who are the most likely to see stackable pathways as attractive and to pursue these pathways, partly because of perceived lower cost and partly because these students are less likely to be able to commit upfront to spending large amounts of time in higher education.
- To pursue a degree piece by piece, rather than embarking on a four-year degree program outright, means that you know you’ll have something to show for your effort after one year, after two years and so on. So even if you don’t make it all the way to your ultimate goal, you’re not going to be stuck with a lot of debt and no credential at all. That’s a less risky and more inviting path to students who are the least traditionally well served by higher education.
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The Future of Collaboration Spaces Encompasses Video, Interactive, Mobile -- Campus Technology
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Artificial Intelligence Research Takes Off at California Universities
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The Future of Digital Credentials: Portability, Depth, Focus. (Pick Two) | EDUCAUSE
- digital credentials. The entire domain is characterized by some pretty blurry lines that represent boundaries of uncertainty, responsibility, and trust.
- But a record of what you’ve accomplished?
- The transcript is not really a record of everything you accomplished.
- But you, the person whose life is transcripted, don’t get the opportunity to contextualize the information.
- student ownership of the transcript with institutional stewardship, based on new design principles: interoperable, customizable, and informative — demand all three.
- most advantageous to your professional prospects while neither fabricating or otherwise inaccurately embellishing them.
- The key is to give you more granular control of their presentation while retaining or conveying their authenticity. That might sound more easily said than done. But the architecture of badging is a step in that direction
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- But recently I have noticed forum activity and interactions in MOOCs have declined drastically.
- But as course providers learned more about student behavior in online courses, MOOCs have evolved to meet the needs of the student.
- MOOCs have evolved to meet the needs of the student. These needs include shorter courses with soft deadlines
- biggest change to MOOCs in recent times has been that they have become more available
- September because it’s usually the biggest month for MOOCs
- gradually being transformed from virtual classrooms to a Netflix-like experience.
- from virtual classrooms to a Netflix-like experience.
- self-paced format or, in the case of Coursera courses, switched to a regular schedule, with new sessions starting automatically on a bi-weekly or monthly basis
- If a student can’t finish a session, all their work is simply transferred to a new session
- increase in the number of courses students can register for and start almost immediately
- But now the same courses are available through the year and can be started immediately.
- This means that instead of tens of thousands of people learning together, everybody is learning at their own pace in much smaller cohorts
- The downside is that this has led to a drastic reduction in forum activity within MOOC cohorts.
- Part of this shift towards more availability is driven by MOOC business models.
- Having more courses available at any given time simply means more opportunities for people to pay for certificates, or for other additional services
- Fundamentally MOOCs as a format haven’t changed much over the last five years. What’s really changed is the how they are packaged and promoted.
- MOOC providers have found success in monetization by packaging these courses into a credential and tying it into real world outcomes like career advancement
- We still get to audit courses for free, but the real money lies in professional development courses.
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Using Songs with Adults | Teaching Listening Skills with Songs
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9 Modern Songs for Teaching Hip English Grammar and Vocab Lessons | FluentU English Educator Blog
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Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate Listening - Songs To Learn English
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ESL Lounge: Songs for English Teaching. Free song lyrics. | ESL Lounge
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Safwat Saleem: Why I keep speaking up, even when people mock my accent | TED Talk | TED.com
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Mary Norris: The nit-picking glory of The New Yorker's Comma Queen | TED Talk | TED.com
""Copy editing for The New Yorker is like playing shortstop for a Major League Baseball team — every little movement gets picked over by the critics," says Mary Norris, who has played the position for more than thirty years. In that time, she's gotten a reputation for sternness and for being a "comma maniac," but this is unfounded, she says. Above all, her work is aimed at one thing: making authors look good. Explore The New Yorker's distinctive style with the person who knows it best in this charming talk."
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writing4summer10 [licensed for non-commercial use only] / Adjective Clauses for Better Writing
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ESL Resources for Teachers: Printable Worksheets, Games, Lesson Plans, and More!
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Dialogues and conversations for ESL teachers: eslflow webguide
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40 Best Sites for ESL Study Materials, Textbooks, and Software – MastersInESL.com
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English Language Learning/English as a Second Language - Literacy Online
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50 000+ Free ESL, EFL worksheets made by teachers for teachers
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12 English Podcasts Every English Learner Should Listen To | FluentU English
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Listen to English and learn English with podcasts in English
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5 Knowledge management trends for 2016 | Knowledge Management in Action
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Free Business English Lesson Plans for ESP and Vocational English Setttings
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Learn English Speaking and Improve your Spoken English with Free English Speaking Lessons Online!
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The Essential Guide to Apps for Learning English as a Second Language – MastersInESL.com
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International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM)
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How Ten Key Developments Are Shaping The Future Of Technology-Enabled Learning | teachonline.ca
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Assessing Effectiveness of Student Participation in Online Discussions
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