Microsoft announced several new education features on National Teacher Appreciation Day.
A new Reading Progress feature in Microsoft Teams helps students practice reading in a secure environment.
Several of the new features help improve student engagement and focus on student well-being.
Today is National Teacher Appreciation Day, and Microsoft just announced several new features to help educators. We already covered Minecraft: Education Edition Camps and Club and the fact that Microsoft Teams can integrate with Minecraft: Education Edition. In addition to those, Microsoft announced Reading Progress for Microsoft Teams and several new tools to improve student engagement and support student well-being. Microsoft outlines all of the new features in an education blog post.
International dual and joint degrees to get green light
India is set to greenlight dual and joint degrees awarded by Indian universities with international partners as part of its internationalisation plan being pushed through forcefully since its inclusion last year in the National Education Policy (NEP), a blueprint for the next decade.
Foreign universities had already started to explore such opportunities, while noting the challenges of setting up joint or dual degrees.
India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman flagged up the change in her budget speech on 1 February, saying: “To promote enhanced academic collaboration with foreign higher educational institutions, it is proposed to put in place a regulatory mechanism to permit dual degrees, joint degrees, twinning arrangements and other such mechanisms.”
February 08, 2021
Learning to Prevent the Next Pandemic: VaxHunt Game Earns STEM.org Educational Trustmark
The Influenzer Initiative’s online game earns the STEM.org Authenticated™ Educational Product Trustmark
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February 08, 2021
WASHINGTON, Feb. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) When it comes to vaccine information and pandemics, words like authentic and trusted matter, even in the gaming environment. Students, teachers, and life-long learners can play VaxHunt: The Quest to Prevent the Next Pandemic with the confidence that each module has been thoroughly reviewed by STEM.org Educational Research™(SER) and awarded its STEM.org Authenticated™ trustmark.
Inspiring the next-generation of vaccine scientists to tackle influenza is key to preventing the next pandemic. VaxHunt is an online game featuring trivia and puzzle challenges where players explore:
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The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the virtual education revolution by a decade, causing institutions and faculty to adapt their programs and pedagogy to better engage students.
Before the coronavirus pandemic disrupted the education journeys of more than 1.6 billion students around the world, higher education institutions were already exploring ways to grow enrollment, reach more students, and better engage the digital natives of Generation Z. Though the need to move online created challenges, it also inspired solutions that will have long-lasting effects on higher education.
In an effort to better understand the impacts of the current dynamics on higher education staff, faculty, and students, Microsoft Education partnered with the Economist Intelligence Unit
Does UK universities’ global rhetoric match reality?
United Kingdom universities talk a good talk when it comes to higher education internationalisation, but an independent expert who is analysing the strategic plans of 140 member institutions belonging to Universities UK has found a “huge mismatch” between what British universities claim are their global priorities and what they measure when evaluating success.
Dr Vicky Lewis, who runs her own consultancy advising higher education institutions on international strategy development, embarked on the research project in September 2020 and told
University World News it was disappointing to find some universities still relying on global league table performance and income from international student fees to measure their performance on the world stage.