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Unlocking Skills: What Learners and Employers Need to Know About Microcredentials

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Digital badges, microcredentials and digital credentials… What sets them apart, or are they synonymous? Digital credentialing is an electronic means of transferring data about an individual’s accomplishments, resulting in a PDF, image or other digital learning record. This adds value to the credential.

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

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IBM runs a digital badging program , now in its seventh year, that has awarded 3.7 Unfortunately, basic data on how many companies and organizations are issuing credentials to the public is not available—and virtually no research has focused on this topic. And we should ask what the U.S.

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How to Assess Digital Literacy

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It provides practical insight into how well students comprehend digital literacy skills in relation to the 2016 ISTE Standards for Students. It is easy to set up and administer (no training required), provides teachers with a dashboard to track student progress and needs, and is compatible with all desktop and mobile devices.

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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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Schools as Learning Playgrounds! 20 Ideas & Resources

Teacher Reboot Camp

With so much standardized testing and stress on data, play is being taken away. Give them digital badges for completing these challenges. ebook, Learning to Go , which has digital/mobile activities for any device and editable/printable handouts and rubrics. Children are being tested as early as Kindergarten.

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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

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Today, Google Maps is an open ecosystem for accurate, real-time geospatial and navigation data. To bridge the gulf, it will take a similar open-data ecosystem to support learner navigation. This data must be in a machine-readable format and interoperable to work in all apps and systems.

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Can Competency-Based Education Demonstrate Mastery Across a Lifetime? #DLNchat

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Morrison felt, “the issue with working together right now is that we're all putting our own 'spin' on CBE which makes it hard to aggregate data across institutions.” As Bill Weber posited, “Data analytics is another piece of the pie that I’m not sure most institutions are ready to cooperate on.” Grann didn’t think so.