Micro-credentials and Education Policy in the United States

June 21, 2019

In the United States, micro-credentials could serve as a powerful tool to improve the professional development industry serving teachers and administrators. Education reformers and policy leaders are beginning to recognize that if schools are to create competency-based and personalized learning experiences for every student and ensure students know how to collaborate and communicate, then those who are teaching them need to lead their own learning as well.

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Learning Objects is a technology and services company that collaborates with institutions to create engaging and personalized learning experiences that improve outcomes. To address the significant challenges in education today, many institutions recognize that new models must be created to improve affordability, retention, achievement, and employability. We partner to help those institutions propel learners forward in their education and their lives.

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Accelerating Learning with Meaningful Project-Based Learning

whitePaper | April 23, 2022

This white paper explores how PBL can engage students in remote learning and help combat learning loss during the pandemic, while also continuing to serve students as a highly effective learning strategy well after the threat from COVID-19 is over.

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Online learning, teaching and education continuity planning for schools

whitePaper | March 13, 2020

An online learning plan covers the teaching strategies, communication rules, devices, solutions, and policies supporting online or blended learning in the school community. Keep the plan as simple as possible, but make the expectations clear for learners, teachers and guardians as to how to learn and teach online. An IB World School has agreed to share their online learning plan as an example of what to consider when creating one. This plan is updated regularly, as is common for schools using online learning under emergency circumstances.

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Capability at Work

whitePaper | August 16, 2022

For some time now I have been discussing capability with people in HR, people in L&D, and people with chief executive responsibilities in both the public and private sectors. What I have found remarkable is the lack of consistency in how people use the word capability.

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Education White Paper by Russell Edgerton

whitePaper | June 7, 2022

In January, 1997, after serving for 19 years as President of the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), I began a new assignment as Director of Education for the Pew Charitable Trusts—a Philadelphia-based national foundation that makes grants in six major program areas. My immediate predecessor had focused the Education Program’s $35 million annual budget largely on K-12 issues.

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What makes the international schools market different?

whitePaper | August 17, 2022

There are many assumptions and claims made about the international schools market. For the purposes of this white paper and its data collection, ISC Research focuses on those international schools that offer learning in the language of English or as one of the main languages of learning.

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Education for the future

whitePaper | November 11, 2022

The roundtable meeting and white paper have been produced under Chatham House Rule, meaning that information, views

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Learning Objects is a technology and services company that collaborates with institutions to create engaging and personalized learning experiences that improve outcomes. To address the significant challenges in education today, many institutions recognize that new models must be created to improve affordability, retention, achievement, and employability. We partner to help those institutions propel learners forward in their education and their lives.

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