Digital badges add great value for employers, students and institutions alike but it’s critical for colleges and universities to more quickly recognize and adopt the delivery of these microcredentials to keep pace with labor market needs.
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Digital badges add great value for employers, students and institutions alike but it’s critical for colleges and universities to more quickly recognize and adopt the delivery of these microcredentials to keep pace with labor market needs.
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Phillip Long discusses badges and certifications from past to future and how they fit into the higher education technology environment.
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Motivating busy higher education professionals to learn and engage with one another isn’t always an easy task; there are plenty of logistical hurdles,
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Digital badges are gaining popularity in tertiary education around the world, but questions remain unanswered about their use in New Zealand.
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Phil Long is Associate Vice Provost of Learning Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
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New features in the Open Badges Specification will soon make it possible for third parties to add verifiable endorsements to these e-credentials — a necessary step for their credibility in many settings.
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In higher ed, digital badges represent successful completion of a variety of learning experiences both inside and outside of the traditional for-credit course.
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Two weeks ago, I attended the Digital Badge Summit in Denver, CO.
I’ve been somewhat hesitant to jump into digital badges world (despite knowing the digital badge ninja, @senorg) because I feared that digital badges were just one more way to categorize and label kids, another carrot to dangle in the classroom. I must admit, that some of this hesitation comes from experience with digital badges within EPIC Kids books, an app we love at Anastasis.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – May 23, 2016 – Educators around the country will learn an exciting strategy for igniting their students’ enthusiasm for learning with a new book from the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE®), Reward Learning With Badges: Spark Student Achievement. Not just for video games or Scouting, badges–both physical and digital–provide evidence of achievement, allowing students to create their own learning paths and develop a passion for learning.
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The founders of Coastal Carolina University’s digital badge program report on their progress, the response from students and faculty, and what lies ahead.
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The University of Massachusetts' online consortium, UMassOnline, has launched its first non-credit badge program.
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Digital badges are an increasingly popular tool for showcasing a person's knowledge and experience. Making such badges part of students' experience with clubs while in college could help them highlight professional competencies when entering the job market.
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Certified skills are a valuable form of academic and professional capital. In this edition of the NMC Beyond the Horizon virtual event series, we will explore the use of digital open badges. These portable machine-readable credentials can verify the mastery of competencies demonstrated across the learning experience while connecting learners to new opportunities and workforce demand.
The panelists draw on experience supporting a range of institutions in developing digital credential badge programs that verify achievements in competency-based education degree programs, open online courses, cross-curricular literacies, co- and extra-curricular activities, student affairs, and faculty development — among other areas. This online program considers topics including new ways of thinking about assessing skills as well as how digital credentials can inform new programs and strengthen relationships.
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While digital badges may sound like overshared gimmicks from the latest trendy game or social network, they have become serious commodities in the world of college credentials.
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My student brain is saying this: Universities are for getting a job. Universities cannot guarantee a job. ∴ Badges— Shizzle (@shirindemirdag) September 2, 2014I spend my week at uni switching betwe...
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Information about the paper titled "USING OPEN BADGES AS CERTIFICATION IN A MOOC" at IATED Digital Library
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Frederic puts together all his ideas from other blogs into this one presentation on creating a conditional activity led course.
Sadly the sound quality is awful but the picture explain lots and there are links to aspects of his work on other scoops below.
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Ce document aborde la question de la définition et de la reconnaissance des badges et d'un standard ouvert à partager pour rendre interopérable les badges dans un "framework de repositories".
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The WICHE Cooperative for Education Technologies has partnered with Blackboard, Mozilla, and Sage Road Solutions to host a massive open online course examining the use of badges in professional credentialing.
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Boulder, CO (PRWEB) August 05, 2013 -- Industry leaders and educational experts explore use of badges as powerful new tools to openly represent flexible portable learning, skill and competency achievements.
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Great overview of the concept of badges in games, edugames, and education. Don't judge the competen...
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How do you motivate students who don't care about grades? You take a turn with badges in education and see how different results can come about.
A quick overview of ways to incorporate the use of badges in HE
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Kaplan University's School of Information Technology is expanding its gamification and badging efforts following positive results from a recently conducted pilot program.
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Higher education institutions and other organizations interested in supporting learning are experimenting with digital badges to guide, motivate, document, and validate formal and informal learning.