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Interview with Noah Geisel, @SenorG: Motivate with Digital Badges!

Teacher Reboot Camp

Noah Geisel, @SenorG , is the first person who really taught me about the potential micro-credentials and digital badges have to motivate learners to achieve great things throughout their lives. I had used badges for my online learning conferences, but hadn’t quite used badges with students, yet.

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Designing Pathways for Rural Learners Using Micro-credentials: Four Case Studies

Digital Promise

These innovative institutions are: focused on supporting social mobility for poverty-impacted rural learners; prioritizing outreach to communities of color, returning citizens, and women; designing affordable, flexible, and meaningful skills training through micro-credentials; and. Read the complete UMS case study here.

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The Winners and Filmstrips of An (Almost) Decade in Education Technology

Edsurge

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Marie Cini is the president of the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning. I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not. An abacus is an educational technology, as is the slide rule.

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It’s Time to Digitally Transform Community College

Edsurge

A Need for More Strategic Online-Learning Capacity Following the sudden move to online and remote learning across all of American higher education last spring, many community colleges will be operating online this fall. But are community colleges ready for this digital transformation?

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How To Value Individual Staff Profesional Development Through Incentive Programs

TeacherCast

In this example, a school district created a badging program based around the 4C’s of Instructional Technology Integration. Each marking period was given a “C-Theme” and inside each of the themes, teachers were encouraged to earn up to 4 badges to demonstrate proficiency over each of the C’s. What are digital badges?

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Can Digital Badges Help Encourage Professors to Take Teaching Workshops?

Wired Campus

A few colleges are trying a new incentive to get professors to participate in professional-development workshops: digital badges. Among the most popular badge platforms are Credly and the Mozilla Open Badges project. The University of Central Florida has been experimenting with badges for its technology workshops as well.

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How To Value Individual Staff Profesional Development Through Incentive Programs

TeacherCast

Professional Development Example Through Badging #1 In this example, a school district created a badging program based around the 4C’s of Instructional Technology Integration. What are digital badges? Badges are a way to recognize staff members for gaining skills and experiences they can use with their students.

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