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9 Reasons You Should Join the Free Goal Minded Teacher Online Course!

Teacher Reboot Camp

Any teacher is invited to join and walk through the steps of learning how to regularly set instructional goals and transform the teaching and learning in their classes. Learning how to set achievable, short-term goals is so powerful! Learn how to collaborate with teachers worldwide!

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MIT Starts University Group to Build New Digital Credential System

Edsurge

The idea is to encourage widespread use of digital credentials across all kinds of academic institutions, and even at more informal places of learning, so that students end up taking ownership of how to communicate their learning to employers.

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There Are 700K+ Credentials — and Counting. Which Ones Are ‘Quality’?

Edsurge

We haven’t had the ability to look across all credentials to allow us to have some sense of how to make the best determination of quality,” Cheney says. Credential Engine is surveying the landscape first, trying to develop a comprehensive dataset before coming to any particular conclusions. “We

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Educators Make, Play, and Connect This Summer

Educator Innovator

Connecting all these activities are digital badges. Designed by the Mozilla Foundation, open digital badges are a new form of credentialing for the digital age. Participating organizations design the badges, outlining the skills kids will learn and the pathways they’ll take to acquire those skills.

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Online PD Courses Help Educators Understand Ed-Tech, Classroom Management, Study Finds

Marketplace K-12

The three biggest reasons pre-K-12 educators took online professional development courses in the past year were to learn how to use digital devices, how to use the educational software that goes on them, or to find out more about classroom behavior or management, according to a new study. To receive a digital badge: 10 percent.

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An Index Of Online Courses For Teachers: Summer 2015

TeachThought - Learn better.

IOC Athlete MOOC via Independent. College Readiness Math MOOC. iTDI Summer School MOOC For English Teachers. Learn How to Play Chess. Digital Badge: Rockets to the Rescue! Get Organized: How to be a Together Teacher. Go To Class | Next Session : Self Paced. Knowledge Is Golden. via Canvas.net.

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20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

Shake Up Learning

How to Manage Multiple Google Accounts. Badging Systems. Digital Badging as become a fun way for teachers and students to show off their accomplishments. Organizing and tracking badges could easily be managed through Google Classroom. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). 20 NEW Ways to Use Google Classroom.

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