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Issue #19
Friday 13th October 2017
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Welcome to Badge News from We Are Open Co-op! Our bi-weekly newsletter keeps the Open Badges community informed of what's going on, in-and-around the ecosystem.
Got something you think the rest of the badges community should see? Click the green button below to get in touch!
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This week's featured article has been chosen by Credly. Click through to read about how the Redhill School in South Africa, eager to prepare their students to succeed in a dynamic world of work, embraced project-based learning – and with it, digital badges to scaffold experiences and motivate students.
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An extract from the article:
"A world where content is becoming a commodity, and the shrinking shelf-life of skills means that the ability to not just learn, but to re-learn and adapt, is more valuable than ever."
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This piece provides another angle on IBM's widely-shared (and very successful) badging programme, suggesting that it helps humans 'outpace' artificial intelligence.
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This month sees the launch of the Dream It. Do It. Minnesota Digital Badge Pathway for students in Grades 7-12. There are six categories of badge, for a range of activities.
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The first IMS Global Learning Consortium and Digitalme European Open Badges Summit will bring together high-profile employers, members of civil service, education and commercial product leaders to share, learn and discuss the technology, people and climate that make Open Badges work. Special tracks have been designed for technical and non-technical attendees.
(1st December, London)
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Although this article in EdSurge discusses microcredentialing more widely, the link to badges is clear, discussing branding in Higher Education and the reputational economy.
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This post, co-authored by Mark Suraman, Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation, and Philipp Schmidt, Director of the Learning Initiative at MIT Media Lab. It charts a decade since the Cape Town Open Education Declaration, and work that's happened since - including Open Badges!
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This article may be accused of being a thinly-veiled advert for Degreed, a service in which the author is an investor. However, it does raise the issue of 'currency' in digital credentials and whether standardisation is a blessing, a curse, or neither.
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There's a real trend in badges for teacher training and professional development, particularly in the USA. This article gives a brief overview and some examples.
See also: Micro-credentials: Radical Personalization of Professional Development
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Have you read a great article about badges you'd like us to include in an upcoming issue? Get in touch with a link!
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Innovative uses of badges
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Certified Membership of the Association for Learning Technology (CMALT)
ALT has recently started issuing badges to recognise certified members:
"CMALT, our Certified Membership scheme, is a peer-based professional accreditation scheme developed by ALT to enable people whose work involves learning technology to have their experience and capabilities certified by peers and demonstrate that they are taking a committed and serious approach to their professional development.”
Click here to find out more
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- Araújo, I., Santos, C., Pedro, L., & Batista, J. (2017) Digital Badges on Education: Past, Present and Future. (Link)
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Hickey, D. T., Coleman, K. S., & Chen, H. L. 7. New Ways to Demonstrate Achievements: Warranting Eportfolio Evidence. Field Guide to Eportfolio, 51. ( Link)
- Lederman, O., Calacci, D., MacMullen, A., Fehder, D. C., Murray, F. E., & Pentland, A. S. (2017). Open badges: A low-cost toolkit for measuring team communication and dynamics. arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.01842. (Link)
Did we miss one? Incorrectly cite something? Send in a correction! Note that if an article listed above does not feature a link, this is because it is not available on the open web. You may be able to get access to it via your local library.
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Upcoming events, webinars, and community calls
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