Monday, October 27, 2014
Fostering a Self-Sustaining Professional Learning Community in Online Professional Development
by Rebecca C. Itow
Since 2011, I have been studying
ways to help teachers adopt and adapt new practices that value learners’
experience and expertise as they explore new concepts. Often, this necessitates
that teachers find ways to reconcile their experience and existing beliefs
about knowledge & learning with the underlying assumptions of the new
practices so that they can be worked into curricular designs. In Spring 2013,
an opportunity arose to redesign the English Language Arts (ELA) courses of a
university-run online high school. While the high school was ranked
the #2 online high school in the United States, they wanted to update their
pedagogy both to attend to the push to foster connected learning in participatory
spaces and address accreditors’ concerns about their use of a correspondence
model. Dan Hickey suggested I take on this task, enabling me to aid the school
in redesigning their courses and to realize the potential of the research I had
been doing for the last two years.
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Open Digital Badges: Recognizing, Assessing, and Motivating Learning in the DPD Project
As the Design Principles Documentation team analyzes the project data from 30 digital badge projects awarded funding in the 2012 DML 4: Badges for Lifelong Learning Completition, certain principles and practices emerge as being successful or overly challenging. This post highlights the three most successful and challenging principles and practices in recognition, assessment, and motivation.
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Open Badges Laboratory: Collaboration with Vitrine Technologie Education
by James Willis and Dan Hickey
We are pleased to announce that we were invited to lead an online Open Badges Laboratory with Charles Tsai, the Director for Learning Networks for Ashoka Canada, and Don Presant, the President of Learning Agents. This collaboration is hosted by Vitrine Technologie Education (VTE) based in Quebec, Canada. The first lab will kick-off on Thursday, October 23rd; the registration form is here. Registration in the lab is free of charge.
We are pleased to announce that we were invited to lead an online Open Badges Laboratory with Charles Tsai, the Director for Learning Networks for Ashoka Canada, and Don Presant, the President of Learning Agents. This collaboration is hosted by Vitrine Technologie Education (VTE) based in Quebec, Canada. The first lab will kick-off on Thursday, October 23rd; the registration form is here. Registration in the lab is free of charge.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Recent Digital Badges Literature and the Digital Archive
By James Willis
Two recent contributions to the growing scholarly literature on digital badges strengthen the case for rethinking educational micro-credentialing. The proliferation of digital badges across numerous divergent and interconnected ecosystems certainly warrants scholarly attention. In particular, these papers highlight the importance of digitally-stable, educational artifacts.
Two recent contributions to the growing scholarly literature on digital badges strengthen the case for rethinking educational micro-credentialing. The proliferation of digital badges across numerous divergent and interconnected ecosystems certainly warrants scholarly attention. In particular, these papers highlight the importance of digitally-stable, educational artifacts.
Monday, September 8, 2014
Collaboration with Lorena Barba's Python MOOC and Open edX
By James Willis and Daniel Hickey
In this post, we discuss a new collaboration between Dr. Lorena Barba and her team at George Washington University, Open edX, IU's Center for Research on Learning and Technology, and IBL Studios. This collaboration will implement digital badges in Dr. Barba's new MOOC, "Practical Numerical Methods with Python."
In this post, we discuss a new collaboration between Dr. Lorena Barba and her team at George Washington University, Open edX, IU's Center for Research on Learning and Technology, and IBL Studios. This collaboration will implement digital badges in Dr. Barba's new MOOC, "Practical Numerical Methods with Python."
Sunday, August 31, 2014
Nate Moves On; James Moves In
By Daniel Hickey
This week is a momentous one for the Open Badges projects housed at Indiana's Center for Research on Learning and Technology. Nate Otto, who has served as coordinator for the Design Principles Documentation Project, is leaving for an outside opportunity. To fill this role, a new team member, James Willis is joining the project as it winds down, and he will be heading up the BadgeKit and Beyond project that is now getting underway.
This post is one way of expressing my thanks to Nate and wishing him well, and introducing James Willis to our many collaborators
This week is a momentous one for the Open Badges projects housed at Indiana's Center for Research on Learning and Technology. Nate Otto, who has served as coordinator for the Design Principles Documentation Project, is leaving for an outside opportunity. To fill this role, a new team member, James Willis is joining the project as it winds down, and he will be heading up the BadgeKit and Beyond project that is now getting underway.
This post is one way of expressing my thanks to Nate and wishing him well, and introducing James Willis to our many collaborators
Saturday, August 30, 2014
New Project: Open Badges in Open edX and Beyond
by Daniel Hickey
This post introduces our newest project with open digital badges. The project got quietly underway in July 2014 with the generous support of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning initiative. We are actively seeking collaborators and are in a position to help innovators in higher ed who want to implement open digital badges and other related digital innovations.
This post introduces our newest project with open digital badges. The project got quietly underway in July 2014 with the generous support of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning initiative. We are actively seeking collaborators and are in a position to help innovators in higher ed who want to implement open digital badges and other related digital innovations.
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