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EXPLORING NEW CREDENTIALS.
Nine universities have embarked on a new effort to build the next generation of digital credentials. Their mission: to create a new standard for issuing, storing, displaying and verifying academic credentials, based on the latest advances in public key infrastructures, public ledgers and blockchains. The institutions involved are Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, Harvard University (MA) Division of Continuing Education, Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam in Germany, MIT, Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico, Technical University of Munich in Germany, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Irvine and the University of Toronto in Canada.
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EVALUATING COURSE MATERIALS.
Carnegie Mellon University’s (PA) Simon Initiative, a cross-disciplinary effort to develop a “learning engineering ecosystem” for improving student outcomes, is teaming up with open courseware provider Lumen Learning to “share tools for developing, evaluating and continuously improving evidence-based learning materials.” Through the collaboration, the Simon Initiative will integrate the RISE Framework (a tool that uses analytics to identify poorly performing learning content) into its educational effectiveness toolkit. For its part, Lumen will “help build awareness, implement and support faculty members’ use of next-generation learning tools developed by both organizations.”
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MOVING TO THE CLOUD. Georgetown University (DC) is making a big push into the cloud to better support teaching, learning and research on campus. According to a Google blog post, the university will migrate its on-site enterprise systems to the Google Cloud Platform within a year. The move will enable Georgetown to implement an artificial intelligence-first and cloud-first approach to optimize operations and accelerate research, and is a key next step in its strategy “to continuously modernize its information technology infrastructure to support the evolving needs of our students, faculty and researchers,” according to Judd Nicholson, vice president and chief information officer. READ THE FULL STORY ONLINE.
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