Showing posts with label Badges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Badges. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

A Situative "Roadmap" for Synergy in Motivating Family STEM Engagement

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By Dan Hickey This is the third post about my collaboration with Iridescent Inc., a science education non-profit in LA. This new post des...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Digital Badges on Resumes and College Applications

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by James Willis  Our recent article, " Where Badges Work Better ," published as an  ELI Brief in July 2015  by the EDUCAUSE Lear...
Monday, April 27, 2015

Hollywood Airbrush Tanning Academy Issues Digital Badges

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By Dan Hickey My web crawler just picked up an intriguing new use of open badges as digital credentials for workplace competencies.  Ho...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Call for Papers and Demonstrations: Open Badges in Education at LAK15

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by James Willis and Dan Hickey Along with Jelena Jovanovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia) and Steven Lonn (University of Michigan),...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

The First Instance of Issuing Open Badges in Open edX

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By James Willis and Dan Hickey We are happy to announce that our collaboration to build the first instance of open digital badges in Open ...
Monday, May 5, 2014

Major Highlights of the 2013 Educational Assessment BOOC

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by Tara Kelley and Dan Hickey This post summarizes the high levels of engagement and learning that occurred in the Big Open Online Course ...
Thursday, April 3, 2014

AERA 2014 Sessions on Digital Badges

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by Christine Chow Several of my colleagues in the world of open digital badges are heading to the AERA conference April 4-6 in Philadelph...
Wednesday, December 4, 2013

The Varied Functions of Digital Badges in the Educational Assessment BOOC

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by Dan Hickey and Tara Kelley This extended post details how open digital badges were incorporated into the Education Assessment Bi...
Friday, October 25, 2013

What Do You Mean by 'Badges?'

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I was exchanging some emails with an a esteemed educational researcher and administrator about our Big Open Online Course on Educational A...
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Sunday, July 7, 2013

Research Design Principles for Studying Learning with Digital Badges

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Web-enabled digital badges are quickly transforming the way that learning is recognized in schools and in informal learning contexts. But...
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Monday, May 20, 2013

Digital Badge Design Principles for Recognizing Learning

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Cross-posted at HASTAC by Andi Rehak and Daniel Hickey This post introduces the design principles for  recognizing  learning that ...
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Sunday, May 19, 2013

Badges Design Principles Database Project: Update on New Principles

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by Daniel Hickey This post is cross-posted at  HASTAC.  This post is a brief update about the design principles that have emerg...
Thursday, April 4, 2013

Digital Badges Meeting at the NSF Headquarters Hosted by NYSCI

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by Katerina Schenke This post describes a meeting at the National Science Foundation where sixty leaders in education and resear...
Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Incorporating Open Badges into a Hybrid Course Context

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By Dan Hickey I recently incorporated digital badges into the online aspects of my doctoral course on educational assessment (“Captur...
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Pushing Badges from ForAllBadges to a Backpack and Beyond

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By Dan Hickey and Andi Rehak In a separate post , Dan explained he used ForAllBadges to issue OBI-complaint badges within the Oncourse co...
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Sunday, September 9, 2012

Intended Purposes Versus Actual Functions of Digital Badges

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By  Daniel Hickey On September 4 th and 5 th ,  there was a meeting at the National Science Teachers Association in Arlington, VA.   Al ...
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Digital Badges and Games for Impact

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By Daniel  Hickey It has been almost a year since the 2011 kickoff meeting of the MacArthur Foundation’s Badges for Lifelong Learning I...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

The Role of Artifact Reflections in Participatory Assessment

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By Rebecca Itow and Dan Hickey On June 7, 2012, we hosted Bloomington’s first Hackjam in conjunction with the Monroe County Public Lib...
Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Responding to Michael Cole’s Question about Badges

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By Dan Hickey Michael Cole I was involved in an exchange on XMCA, the listserv established by Michael Cole’s Laboratory of Compara...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Summer 2012 Hackjam: The Wiki

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Rebecca Itow and Dan Hickey In the Fall 2011, we decided to put on a Hackjam in conjunction with the Monroe County Public Library. We ad...
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