Archive of ‘instructional technology’ category

Pearson buys Credly

EXCLUSIVE Pearson buys certification group Credly in deal valued at $200m

https://www.reuters.com/business/exclusive-pearson-buys-certification-group-credly-deal-valued-200m-2022-01-31/

The UK-listed firm, a major supplier of courseware and assessments in schools and colleges in the United States, Britain and around the world

Pearson CEO Andy Bird told Reuters that verified credentials were becoming more important as technology adapts, leaving many companies with a skills gap where staff need training on how to work with processes such as artificial intelligence.

Pearson, which has been buffeted by the shift from physical courseware to online learning, bought AI and analytics group Faethm in 2021, which spots skills gaps for organisations.

Credly partners with organisations such as IBM, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services to provide certifications, or digital credentials, to workers both inside their firms and out who have attained a certain level with their product. Based in the United States, half of the people earning credentials on the platform are outside America, with India one of its biggest markets.

Pearson will now be able to combine the diagnostic tools of Faethm with its own digital learning programmes and Credly’s certification capabilities to offer a full service to companies.

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schools cybersecurity

https://www.edweek.org/technology/opinion-what-can-be-done-about-k-12s-looming-tech-nightmare/2022/01

As of this past August, Politico has reported that ransomware attacks have hit 58 education organizations and school districts, including 830 individual schools. Last March, the Broward County, Fla., district didn’t pay a $40 million ransom, leading the hackers to publish 26,000 stolen files online (these included student and staff Social Security numbers and addresses).

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The Good Web

https://scs.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=175fe463-5b23-42c2-a759-ae1d012a1a74&start=4.789706

Remote Learning Power and Privilege

How Remote Learning Subverts Power and Privilege in Higher Education

https://www-edsurge-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.edsurge.com/amp/news/2021-09-06-how-remote-learning-subverts-power-and-privilege-in-higher-education

It is important to use the lessons of this transition to challenge what Paulo Freire calls “the banking system” of education—where professors aim to simply deposit knowledge into students—and instead create inclusive pedagogies that acknowledge the diversity of our students and provide a safe space that invites them to speak up. Decolonization is not just about removing a few dead white men from our syllabi, or adding more women of color. It’s about making sure that everyone’s experience is represented. It’s about decentering the traditional power hierarchy in the classroom, so that the professor is not the sole transmitter of knowledge who imposes a singular (and often Western) view. It’s about ensuring equitable participation among students, so that they don’t remain silent and passive receivers whose varied life experiences are dismissed.

In a Zoom classroom, the teacher is no longer the central authority. Chat offers real-time parallel participation. The ability to enter and exit at will equalizes power.

Even before the pandemic, many educators knew that the traditional methods of teaching and research would have to be overhauled at some point. As a professor of humanities, I had been aware of the need to employ hybrid pedagogies more in tune with the digital age and shortened, over-stimulated attention spans. Advantages to joining students in their digital space far outweigh dated arguments railing against the medium; if anything, the pandemic’s isolating effects already prompted students to seek refuge there.

At this moment, the modern university stands at a turning point. Instead of wanting to go back to how things were, we should be looking at radical pedagogical interventions that make the most of remote learning as an accompaniment to the traditional classroom experience. This is the time to put “interdisciplinary” ideas into practice by experimenting with new methodologies.

 

‘maze’ of education credentials

Growing ‘maze’ of education credentials is confusing consumers, employers

As more jobs require postsecondary training, more providers jump in to offer it — including fakes and scammers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/12/26/education-credential-certificate-scams/

a “maze” of nearly a million unique education credentials in the United States, the nonprofit Credential Engine reports, including not only degrees but also badges, certificates, licenses, apprenticeships and industry certifications.

The way new kinds of credentials are being developed and awarded is “a bit like the wild West,” a study by the Rutgers University Education and Employment Research Center found.

Even before the pandemic and the subsequent labor squeeze, 39 percent of human resources managers said they spent less than a minute reading a resume, according to a survey by CareerBuilder.

Conventional higher education institutions are increasingly alarmed about the holes that have developed in a system that was previously much simpler.

A quarter of American adults now hold nondegree credentials, meaning something short of an associate or bachelor’s degree, according to federal data, and they’ve become more popular in recent years.

“As online education becomes normalized, as a credential from Google or Microsoft can get someone a job, all of a sudden we’re in an environment where higher education doesn’t have a monopoly on education,” Ahluwalia said.

The Credential Engine Registry so far includes full or partial information on about 30,000 educational credentials. That’s about 3 percent of the total it eventually hopes to list.

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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=credentials

2022 user interface trends

2022 UI design trends guide

Minimalism, Claymorphism, Brutalism and a look into the future of NFT, VR and Metaverse

https://uxdesign.cc/2022-ui-design-trends-guide-22ddc386557b

  1. Minimalism and simplification
  2. Brutalism (and return of the flat)
  3. Glassmorphism and glass inspired elements
  4. Aurora backgrounds
  5. Holographic/Neon
  6. Eco-conscious “cardboard” style
  7. Wild typography
  8. Claymorphism 3D
  9. NFT’s and democratisation of art
  10. A glimpse into VR and Metaverse

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