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Live Interview Thursday October 20th - Mark Surman from Mozilla on Open Badges

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We''ll be talking about Mozilla''s Open Badges project , the issues around recognizing skills and achievements that happen outside of traditional learning institutions, and the HASTAC Badges Competition: Badges For Lifelong Learning. Recordings : The full Blackboard Collaborate recording is at https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-10-20.1615.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2011, Ning was acquired by “lifestyle” site Glam Media for around $150 million. In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.”

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