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Who Owns Digital Badges? A Company's Patent on Credential System Raises Questions

Edsurge

Patent and Trademark Office granted two patents last year for creating, managing and tracking digital credentials, it raised new questions and concerns among a community of innovators who are trying to create an open platform for rethinking credentials. Much of the funding came from grants from the MacArthur Foundation.

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5 Key Areas of Technology Professional Development for Teachers

EdTech Magazine

If coaches are not available, companies like Microsoft and Google offer resources to help with navigating broad classroom technology practices, as well as specifics about products like Office 365 or Google Classroom. . “Our Sustained Duration: The idea behind this one is relatively simple: Training takes time.

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4 Ways to Show Off Your Digital Badges

The Innovative Educator

More and more entities are helping people show what they know with micro-credentials and digital badging. Micro-credentials and certifications teach specific job skills and provide evidence indicating if these skills have been attained via a certificate or badge. Here are some ideas: I want more »

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

Edsurge

A growing number of companies have moved beyond training their own employees or providing tuition assistance programs to send staff members to higher education. It’s not hard to find prominent examples: • Google recently announced an expansion of the company’s popular Google Career Certificates portfolio.

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Open Badges in Elementary School

The CoolCatTeacher

And Amy, you’re working with digital badges or open badges in elementary school. What are open badges, and how does this work with elementary kids? What is a digital badge and how do students earn one? This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show. Help us understand.

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New Effort Adds College Credit to Apprenticeship Programs

Edsurge

Now, a pilot partnership among colleges, companies and the American Council on Education aims to help people pursue both paths. The Apprenticeship Pathways project takes apprenticeships—experiences that companies design that pay people wages to learn while they work—and translates them into free college credits.

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To Better Serve Adult Learners, Eliminate the Barriers Between Work and Learning

Edsurge

Non-Degree Microcredentials as Pathways to Lifelong Learning and Degrees From digital badges and nanodegrees, to MicroMasters and new types of certificates, there’s an explosion of professionally-oriented microcredential offerings , and employers are increasingly aware of and accepting of these educational options.