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Interview with Noah Geisel, @SenorG: Motivate with Digital Badges!

Teacher Reboot Camp

Noah Geisel, @SenorG , is the first person who really taught me about the potential micro-credentials and digital badges have to motivate learners to achieve great things throughout their lives. I had used badges for my online learning conferences, but hadn’t quite used badges with students, yet.

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Designing Pathways for Rural Learners Using Micro-credentials: Four Case Studies

Digital Promise

These innovative institutions are: focused on supporting social mobility for poverty-impacted rural learners; prioritizing outreach to communities of color, returning citizens, and women; designing affordable, flexible, and meaningful skills training through micro-credentials; and. Read the complete KVEC case study here. million from the U.S.

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5 Key Areas of Technology Professional Development for Teachers

EdTech Magazine

To assist the professional development process for both teachers and IT professionals, Digital Promise, in conjunction with Google , has established a new program called the Dynamic Learning Project to help introduce new education technology into the classroom. . 5 Key Points of Professional Development.

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Digital Badges Validate Skills for Special Needs Students

edWeb.net

Individuals with special needs struggle to graduate from high school and earn a diploma, much less pursue higher education or gain meaningful employment. Sometimes, there is a skills gap between the desired career and the student’s training. Digital badges are gaining popularity and awareness, but they are not universal.

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New Social Media Micro-credentials Support Social Mobility for Adult Learners

Digital Promise

Though an estimated one-third of US workers across industries and occupations would benefit from developing digital skills—particularly among workers of color —fewer than 10 percent of people who need digital skills training and support are able to access education services due to longstanding systemic inequities.

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Balancing Act: Cybersecurity in the Connected Classroom

EdTech Magazine

This requires a balancing act: How do educators leverage connected technology without putting student data and other critical information at risk? Consider the work of Aurora Public Schools , which serves more than 60 area schools and was recently recognized as a leader in education by nonprofit group Colorado Succeeds.

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More Employers Are Awarding Credentials. Is A Parallel Higher Education System Emerging?

Edsurge

As the acceptance of new types of credentials grows, a number of employers have become learning providers in their own right, in a way that could shake up the broader higher education landscape. IBM runs a digital badging program , now in its seventh year, that has awarded 3.7

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