Friday, September 18, 2015

The Possibilities and Challenges of Dual Enrollment for Assessment and Beyond

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By Dan Hickey My colleague James Willis was kind enough to introduce me to Emily Swafford who is the Programs Manager at the American His...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Resource and Repository for Open Badges

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by James Willis We are pleased to announce a repository for open badges projects, articles, case studies, and links to additional resource...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Calculus PLAnet: Promising First steps in Participatory Supplemental Instruction in Mathematics

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by Suraj Uttamchandani, Tristan Tager, and Daniel Hickey We discuss our recent pilot of networked online approaches for providing s...
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, July 20, 2015

Digital Badges and the Workplace: Some Recent Resources

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by James Willis  The use and interest in open digital badges continues to grow. This is especially true for the workplace. Seen as dynamic...
Monday, July 6, 2015

Connecting Students and Teachers with Open Digital Badges

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by James Willis, Dan Hickey, and John Foster * John Foster, Ph.D. (guest blogger) is President/CEO of NOCTI and its subsidiary, Nocti Bus...
Friday, June 19, 2015

IBL Studios Issues an Open Source Badging Platform

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by James Willis We worked with Michael Amigot at IBL Studios in a previous project to launch the first instance of open badges in Open e...
Friday, June 12, 2015

3600 US Cerfication Bodies Lacking Third Party Validation

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By Dan Hickey Lumina Foundation just released a report with some surprising data about the manner in which most of the bodies that award ...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Is Self-Paced Participatory Learning Possible?

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by Suraj Uttamchandani and Daniel Hickey In this post, we discuss current efforts to offer the flexibility of self-paced learning wit...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Competency-Based Education, Badges, and Professional Development

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by Benjamin Roome (guest blogger)  and James Willis  * Benjamin Roome, Ph.D., is Chief Product Officer for Badge List and Ethics Consul...