Digital Literacy for St. Cloud State University
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2019-03-06-what-to-know-before-working-with-google-for-education
80 million educators and students using its G Suite for Education tools, and 40 million users using its Classroom app.
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more about the relationship btw Google and Education in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=google+education
Beth Anna Bergsmark, Associate Vice President and Chief Enterprise Architect
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use lighweight Google tools versus heavy weight (time consuming to learn) tools. able to connect, participate online. Georgetown policy is “never close campus” and light-weight tools help faculty do that .
#GoogleEdu
google.com/edu/higher-education
even faculty video service integrated with LMS (SCSU = Kaltura + D2L), faculty still are encouraged to use youTube.
migrations lose metadata. Google migration highly automated, but other modernisations, but sites older then 10 years were scrapped.
aside of Google Glass, are there other Google apps used in the medical school. Answers: Google calendar
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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more on credentials in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=credentials
Coursera is blurring the lines between itself and institutions. The implications for the future of college education are profound.
The future of higher education is being led by a publicly traded company in California that is growing like gangbusters. Its online platform has a portfolio of thousands of courses from the world’s leading universities, corporations, and nonprofits.
Coursera, which since the spring has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange, is valued at 7 billion dollars and seems to be making all the right moves.
While college and university enrollments have been declining during the pandemic, Coursera’s enrollment rose from 53 million to 78 million students this spring—an increase greater than total U.S. higher education enrollment.
Coursera is only the tip of the iceberg of an explosion of non-collegiate higher education providers. They range from libraries and museums to media companies and software makers, not to mention a burgeoning number of online providers just like Coursera. Microsoft and Google are both offering more than 75 certificate programs.
As our society becomes more fragmented and divided, we have reason to worry that higher education’s transformation will further fragment us.
Equally important, we need to reintroduce a common curriculum to strengthen social bonds. General education should focus on the shared human experience—linking our past with our present and future, our heritage with the realities that will confront us today and tomorrow.
In the new Coursera world that will be increasingly corporatized, we need to ensure that we don’t lose our core values, our ethics, and our ability to tell fact from fiction.
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more on Coursera in this blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=coursera
What do we know about Google’s enormous book-scanning project? How far are we in the quest for a universal digital library? What does it mean for higher education?
AI Technology in Education Will Grow 40% Annually Until 2027
According to the author of the report, one of the participants in the AI education market will be IBM, AWS, Microsoft, Google, Nuance, Century Tech, Blackboard, Pearson, Cognii, Volley.com, Blippar, Knewton, Jenzabar, Content Technologies, PLEIQ, Luilishuo, Pixatel System, Cerevrum Inc., CheckiO, and Quantum Adaptive Learning.
Europe is expected to hold a significant market share with supportive government initiatives.
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more on AI in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=artificial+intelligence
startup JigSpace, which was among the first apps to support ARKit and LiDAR for iPhone augmented reality apps
“Creating and sharing knowledge in 3D should be simple, useful, and delightful. We’re on a mission to unlock the utility of augmented reality at massive scale and bring interactive 3D experiences into everyday life,” said Zac Duff, co-founder and CEO at JigSpace
Compared to the camera effects from Snapchat and Facebook, mobile AR apps built on ARKit from Apple and ARCore from Google haven’t had quite the impact we expected them to when Apple originally announced ARKit.
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more on AR in education in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=augmented+reality+education
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more on technology education in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=technology+education
Four teachers share their favorite online tools to use during this unusual year, including sites for educational games and others for collaborative work. #EWOpinion https://t.co/yihTiS100e
— Education Week (@educationweek) November 14, 2020
Wordwall
Padlet
PearDeck
FlipGrid
Google Slides,
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more on online tools in this ISM blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=online+tools
In April 2020, the company claimed its G Suite for Education products were used by 120 million students and users across the world. More than 100 million use Classroom, its online collaboration and learning management platform. Over 40 million students and educators across the globe now use Chromebooks.
