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New Merger Wants to Create ‘WeWork for Education’ Via Digital Badges and Mini-Campuses

Edsurge

Born in 2015 out of a project funded by the MacArthur Foundation , LRNG has reached 55,000 students in 19 cities with its digital badges and community-focused employment programs. Currently SNHU and LRNG are looking at how these digital badges can be applied toward an SNHU degree.

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The New Librarian: I started a digital badging movement for my students

eSchool News

I struggled with how to engage students in extremely important skills like finding, evaluating, and citing scholarly sources; weeding through J.U.N.K. to find gems; becoming global citizens; making informed actions; and exploring digital tools.

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An Index Of Online Courses For Teachers: Summer 2015

TeachThought - Learn better.

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Awareness, Assessment, and Access: Improving Adult Digital Literacy

Digital Promise

To address these different learning levels, RIFLI uses the Northstar Digital Literacy assessment exam as the basis for a curriculum that teaches how to use a computer to using Microsoft Excel and Word as well as social media, specifically Facebook. At the end of each course, RIFLI staff award digital badges to the students.

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As students flock to credentials other than degrees, quality-control concerns grow

The Hechinger Report

The university offers digital badges rather than degrees or certificates for the completion of some courses. While there has generally been consensus about what a college degree represents, there’s confusion over how to define many of these new credentials and judge their usefulness for employers and job seekers. “We

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The FREE Lesson Plans and Resources You Aren’t Using! (but should be) – SULS0148

Shake Up Learning

Rich shares the power of Open Educational Resources (OER)–what they are, where to find them, and how to get started. In 2015, the Department of Education at the federal level enacted an initiative called Go Open. Here’s a great article on how to get started with OER in the classroom. para help?

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School’s Out, Cities Are in with Expanded Cities of Learning Initiative

Educator Innovator

In the summer of 2015, Chicago, Dallas, Pittsburgh, and Washington, D.C., Young people can take self-directed journeys through any number of participating organizations, completing activities and receiving digital badges to recognize their achievements. double as Cities of Learning (COL).