As employers recognize that the lack of a four-year college degree doesn't mean a potential worker doesn't have value, the return on investment for university graduates is dropping. Harris Poll found 51% of U.S. adults say costs have impacted their ability to pursue a post-high school education.

As we enter into 4th Industrial Revolution, as described by World Economic Forum founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab, governments must take the lead in changing the way that we see the future of society and the workplace. Companies and institutions will also play a significant role as the employment landscape changes from the one we have grown accustomed to.

The path forward requires certain priorities: first and foremost, to ensure that a fundamental review of the educational system is urgently addressed. Furthermore, technology must be galvanized within the workplace in a way that benefits employees. Employees will need to be shown that Intelligent Automation (IA) implementation creates opportunities and benefits for them personally. Additionally, when IA does affect a job or department, the roles of the affected workers need to be assessed and expanded, which may require further training of those personnel.

Los estudiantes disponen ahora de una nueva y poderosa herramienta para construir y demostrar sus habilidades: las microcredenciales. Pero, ¿qué son y por qué son importantes?

También conocidas como insignias digitales, las microcredenciales se recogen a través de aplicaciones, sitios web o sistemas de datos. Suelen demostrar un aprendizaje más breve y especializado que un diploma, título o certificado tradicional, explica Brookings, un grupo de investigación política.

Desde 2020 en adelante, el mundo educativo ha tenido que adaptarse a la nueva situación a marchas forzadas. Durante décadas hemos estado acostumbrados a un aprendizaje presencial, que se convirtió en remoto con la llegada de la pandemia. Ante ese nuevo escenario comenzó a darse un papel más protagonista a la tecnología dentro de nuestras vidas. En cuestión de días el modelo tradicional de aprendizaje pasó a ser digital. En ese escenario, la realidad virtual y la realidad aumentada han asentado las bases de la educación del futuro, antes de la llegada del metaverso.

Watch José "Pepe" Escamilla and George Siemens, executive director of the Learning Innovation and Networked Knowledge Research Lab at the University of Texas, Arlington, talk about how MOOC changed and the future role of AI, data, and learning analytics in education.

The number of students in the United States who have attended college but left before receiving a credential, certificate or degree has risen to 39 million, from 36 million in 2019, according to a new report released Tuesday. Black and Hispanic students continued to make up of disproportionate share of the total number.

The report, “Some College, No Credential,” by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, follows similar reports from the center in 2019 and 2014. The total number of uncredentialed students reported represents an 8.6 percent increase and partly reflects the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the academic outcomes of college students who faced unprecedented financial and personal challenges, including job and income losses and the sickness and deaths of family members.

A new way of showing your leadership cred is here. While a POAP may sound like something vaguely medical, it’s actually a blockchain-based crypto-badge that can attest to where you’ve been, what you know, and who’s in your active network.

You get POAPs by attending events. Collect enough of them and you can unlock bonus privileges and gifts, depending on who issues them.

The University of Iowa recently released the final report for its Future of Work@Iowa project. The project sought to “reimagine” how and where employees work after the pandemic, with a focus on “understanding the long-term potential for remote and hybrid work, flexible schedules, and other types of work arrangements”—arrangements it collectively calls “flexible work.”

And where did that reimagining take them? To the bold declaration that while “flexible work is not the new norm,” some employees could take advantage of “intermittent flexibility,” such as working remotely for a couple of days while caring for an elderly relative. In other words, the “future of work” at the University of Iowa doesn’t look too different from what prevailed on college campuses before the pandemic. It’s like whomever wrote the report jumped in the DeLorean and set the clock to 2012.

In an era of learning acceleration and learning loss, it can be hard to grant ourselves permission to slow down. But if we’re looking to cultivate learner agency, we must consider the negative effects of accelerating learning—of always asking our students to be “on” in our classrooms. We must ask ourselves: Where does the urgency come from, and how might it be disenfranchising some of my students?

Cuando estábamos en el colegio, jamás olvidamos que el profesor tenía el poder absoluto de poner las notas y aprobar o suspender a los alumnos. Tal vez cuando no exista esa relación, les sea más sencillo conectar con los intereses reales de sus clientes, los estudiantes ( Los aprendices de hoy son diferentes de los estudiantes que era de nuestro sistema creado para educar. Los nuevos aprendices digitales están inmerso en la tecnología y que esperan utilizar herramientas digitales como parte de su experiencia educativa. la investigación basada en el cerebro proporciona evidencia de que la actual generación de estudiantes se “conecta” son de forma diferente que las generaciones anteriores.

VR platforms like Virbela demonstrate how it is architecturally possible to move beyond the physical domain of a classroom or corporate-training hall to a hyperreal space of learning. While one may argue that Zoom, YouTube and other platforms already provide learning opportunities that are not restricted to physical buildings, the metaverse dives a little deeper by focusing on spatial immersion.

Podemos llamarlo teleformación, formación a distancia, enseñanza online, educación a distancia o eLearning. Todos estos conceptos vienen a significar lo mismo. Enseñar y aprender a través de la tecnología sin que tiempo y espacio sean una barrera. Un tipo de formación que se venía empleando hacía años en el ámbito profesional y en la educación post universitaria pero que se extendió temporalmente a escuelas e institutos como solución para educar a distancia durante la pandemia de COVID-19.

Sea como fuere, el eLearning, lejos de ser una moda pasajera o un parche temporal, es ya un sistema de formación consolidado. Las universidades y centros educativos a distancia están a la orden del día. Y empresas de todo el mundo facilitan a sus empleados la formación a través de eLearning. La pregunta es, ¿qué futuro le depara al eLearning?

La educación actual y del futuro afronta múltiples retos y uno de ellos es dar respuesta a los profundos cambios sociales, económicos y culturales que se prevén para la llamada «Sociedad de la Información y el Conocimiento» en este tiempo siendo la Internet la que ha generado un enorme interés en todos los ámbitos de nuestra sociedad y su gracias a su creciente uso con fines educativos se ha convertido en un campo abierto a la reflexión e investigación.

VictoryXR, a provider of augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) content for schools and educational institutions, has announced ten “Metaversities” will be launching in the US this fall, with several educational institutions planning to roll out digital twin campuses in order to provide learning options for students in the metaverse..

According to VictoryXR, each school will roll out a digital twin replica campus for students to attend, whether they are on campus or learning remotely. In addition, each student will receive a Quest 2 VR headset for use during the course they are taking. Finally, courses will be synchronous, or multi-student, as if they were attending class on a physical campus.

More than 39 million Americans have attended college, but earned no degree or other credential, according to a new report released Tuesday by the the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC). That figure represents about 22% of U.S. residents 18 years of age or older.

The “some college, no credential” (SCNC) population is up 3.1 million from the nearly 36 million previously reported in 2019, the result of both real net growth and improved NSCRC identification of students. That’s an 8.6% increase, with the number of SCNC individuals growing in every state except Nebraska and Connecticut.

Like many campuses, Missouri State quickly shifted from in-person to online tutoring during the pandemic. And like many campuses, the university is now keeping both options available, since officials found that many students prefer the convenience of online. One challenge, Frizell notes, will be finding funding for both formats going forward.

One model that seems to be working well, says Frizell, is one where a tutor is embedded in a large lecture class, an approach called the “supplemental instruction program”. “If you’ve got this person embedded in the class, they’re going to use her,” Frizell adds. In contrast with having to go to a tutoring center, he explains, “the stigma is gone”.

As technology progresses, bringing us new immersive and imagined worlds, so must our methods of educating children and preparing teachers to handle these new challenges. It also provides new opportunities for students, instructors, and parents to communicate. Students and teachers have more flexibility in timing the curriculum, conducting meetings, and supplementing practical learning experiences because of virtual universe technologies and blended learning approaches.

Un ambiente virtual de aprendizaje (AVA) es una plataforma en línea utilizada para facilitar y mejorar la enseñanza y el aprendizaje. Los AVA suelen emplearse en lugar de las aulas o como complemento de las mismas, además de en entornos laborales, por sus múltiples beneficios. En este artículo se analizan estas plataformas y sus usos en la industria.

Starting off with a general-purpose class to learn the basics, this class from the leading online course platform Udemy promises to teach “everything about the metaverse” for a low cost. As always, they offer a 30-day money-back guarantee if you don’t find the content helpful.

The course covers the technical infrastructure elements of the metaverse, including blockchain, NFTs, and cryptocurrencies and how to invest in them, as well as virtual and augmented reality, and how to buy and sell land in the metaverse. It’s designed as a grounder in the fundamental technologies that are used to create and maintain virtual worlds, and at three hours in duration is more bite-sized than in-depth. This means it’s most likely to serve as a jumping-off point for you to discover which elements are most interesting to you before you seek out more comprehensive sources of information.

Desde muchos ámbitos de la Educación 2.0 se están redefiniendo los nuevos intentos de construcción de Escenarios de aprendizaje, cómo una especie de antesala de una Educación esencialmente significativa con adjetivos menos descriptivos pero si más agarrados a lo que son las necesidades personalizadas de los aprendices, una educación mucho más diluida, menos regulada y pautada, pero más “natural” a las personas.