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Issue #27
Friday 30th March 2018

Welcome to Badge News from We Are Open Co-op! Our regular newsletter keeps the Open Badges community informed of what's going on, in-and-around the ecosystem. Thank you for subscribing!

A reminder that Badge News has switched to a monthly rhythm so, from now on, it will be hitting your inbox on the last Friday of every month. You can expect the next one on April 27th.

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Latest news

Achieve Announces NGSS Design Badge for High-Quality Science Units

Achieve Announces NGSS Design Badge for High-Quality Science Units

This article introduces Achieve's new first-of its-kind digital badge, that will be awarded to science units designed for the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), via Badgr. Achieve hopes the NGSS Design Badge will provide an easy way for consumers to be assured that a unit — whether it was found online for free or purchased from a big publisher — is high quality and designed for the NGSS.

This article was contributed by Badgr

 

SXSWEDU 2018- The Long Game - Using Credentials for Continuing Ed

SXSWEDU 2018- The Long Game - Using Credentials for Continuing Ed

In this recording from the SXSWEDU 2018 Convention, Credly CEO Jonathan Finkelstein and Brenda Perea, Director of Learning & Workforce Solutions at Credly join Jason Tyszko, the Executive Director at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Dr. Kemi Jona, the Associate Dean for undergraduate programs at the College of Professional Studies at Northeastern University, to discuss how institutions and employers can work in tandem to create meaningful digital demonstrations of skills.

This article was contributed by Credly

2018 Badge Summit

2018 Badge Summit

A while away yet but a date for the diaries is the 2018 Badge Summit, which will take place on the 23rd June 2018 in Chicago. The theme is: 'an exploration of micro-credentials, access and equity'.

Customer case study - the Guides and Scouts of Finland

Customer case study - the Guides and Scouts of Finland

This case study looks at how the Guides and Scouts of Finland are using badges to demonstrate the knowledge and skills they develop. It includes presentation slides and a recorded webinar with Johanna Heinonen (Senior Lecturer at Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences) who discusses how Guides and Scouts are using badges to promote skills in their network and to provide recognition of learning in scouting.

This article was contributed by Open Badge Factory

 

IMS Global Learning Consortium Summit on Digital Credentials

IMS Global Learning Consortium Summit on Digital Credentials

Presentations from the IMS Global Learning Consortium's Summit on Digital Credentials, that took place on the  27th - 28th February in Arizona, are available. They include case studies from a range of contributors including Open Badge platform vendors, universities and companies.

Badge Wiki

Badge Wiki

This knowledge base for Open Badges and digital credentials is growing every week! Many thanks to those who continue to add information and resources to provide a community knowledge base.

Join the Loomio group to receive updates and to get involved with the its development!

EntreComp into Action - Get inspired, make it happen: A user guide to the European Entrepreneurship Competence Framework

EntreComp into Action - Get inspired, make it happen: A user guide to the European Entrepreneurship Competence Framework

This guide to the European Entrepreneurship Competence Framework includes a couple of case studies showing how Open Badges could be used to recognise entrepreneurial learning pathways and support the goal that EntreComp has to become a common entrepreneurship reference across formal, non-formal and informal learning contexts.

Diverse Learning Experiences Powered By Micro-Credentials

Diverse Learning Experiences Powered By Micro-Credentials

Participate have created a free guidebook providing:

  • A brief history of micro-credentials in education
  • How micro-credentials are used to recognize diverse accomplishments in school district settings and beyond
  • Emerging technologies and the future of micro-credentials and digital badges
Open Badges 2.0

Open Badges 2.0

With Open Badge platforms implementing the latest vesion of the Open Badges standard, v2.0, Bryan Mathers captures some of the key features in his latest visual thinkery. Available to use under license CC BY-ND 4.0.

You can find more of Bryan's illustrations on Badge Wiki.

Have you read a great article about badges you'd like us to include in an upcoming issue? Get in touch with a link!

Recent academic articles

  • Donnelly, R., Lowry, C., & Maguire, T. (2017). Making Digital Badging Work: Lessons from an Irish HE Context. (Link)
  • Konert, J., Buchem, I., Lewis, L., Hamilton, G., & Riches, T. (2018) Competency Alignment of Open Badges. λογος, 29. (Link)
  • Kuśmierczyk, T., & Gomez-Rodriguez, M. (2018). On the Causal Effect of Badges. (Link)
  • White, M., & Shellenbarger, T. (2018). Gamification of Nursing Education With Digital Badges. Nurse educator, 43(2), 78-82. (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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