Monday, October 27, 2014

Fostering a Self-Sustaining Professional Learning Community in Online Professional Development

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by Rebecca C. Itow Since 2011, I have been studying ways to help teachers adopt and adapt new practices that value learners’ experience a...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Open Digital Badges: Recognizing, Assessing, and Motivating Learning in the DPD Project

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by Katerina Schenke, James Willis, and Dan Hickey As the Design Principles Documentation team analyzes the project data from 30 digital...
Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Open Badges Laboratory: Collaboration with Vitrine Technologie Education

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by James Willis and Dan Hickey We are pleased to announce that we were invited to lead an online  Open Badges Laboratory  with Charles Tsa...
Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Recent Digital Badges Literature and the Digital Archive

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By James Willis  Two recent contributions to the growing scholarly literature on digital badges strengthen the case for rethinking educati...
Monday, September 8, 2014

Collaboration with Lorena Barba's Python MOOC and Open edX

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By James Willis and Daniel Hickey In this post, we discuss a new collaboration between Dr. Lorena Barba and her team at George Washington...
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Sunday, August 31, 2014

Nate Moves On; James Moves In

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By Daniel Hickey This week is a momentous one for the Open Badges projects housed at Indiana's Center for Research on Learning and Tech...
Saturday, August 30, 2014

New Project: Open Badges in Open edX and Beyond

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by Daniel Hickey This post introduces our newest project with open digital badges.  The project got quietly underway in July 2014 with the ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014

Of Course Alfie Kohn Dislikes Open Digital Badges: Transcending a 40-Year Old Debate

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By Daniel Hickey Serge Ravet just posted the recordings of Alfie Kohn’s virtual  keynote address  at the July 2014  e-Portfolio,  Open B...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

MIT Report Questions the Fitness of the Course as the Organizational Metaphor for Higher Learning

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by Nate Otto , Project Coordinator for the Badges Design Principles Documentation Project Today saw the release of a 213 page report ( ...
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Sunday, May 11, 2014

My Participation in the First Assessment BOOC at Indiana University: A Unique Learning Experience

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 Marina was a student of mine in 2003-2004 at the University of Georgia.  She worked with me on a project that provided the core theories b...
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