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Badge of honour? An exploration of the use of digital badges to support a partnership approach to faculty development

This article describes a professional development initiative facilitated through a transformational partnership model. In this context, we discuss our experience of piloting an online continuing professional development course in the area of online teaching, which offered a digital badge for successful participants. The course was the result of a partnership between three Irish higher education […]

Download Report: 2020 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report™ | Teaching and Learning Edition

Accessibility Adaptive Courseware Affordability Analytics Artificial Intelligence (AI) Badges and Credentialing Competency-based Education (CBE) Data Privacy Digital Learning Digital Literacy Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Extended Reality (XR) Future of Higher Education Higher Education Transformation Information Literacy Innovation Institutional Management Instructional Design Instructional Technologies Learning Analytics Next Generation Digital Learning Environment (NGDLE) New Models Online […]

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Bologna Digital 2020: White Paper on Digitalisation in the European Higher Education Area 1.1 Why this White Paper? Europe needs new visions for contemporary higher education in the digital age. Digitalisation is not only an additional challenge, but also an effective means to address key challenges for higher education in the 21st century. This paper […]

Digital credentials need more transparency

Through a partnership, education leaders could reach a more agreed-upon shared vision of digital credentials A partnership between two groups aims to advance new interoperability and transparency standards for digital credentials and institutional data systems. eCampus News  

Seeking a Shared Global Standard for Digital Credentials

For hundreds of years, universities and colleges have issued academic credentials on paper. But what would these credentials look like if they were designed today? This is the question a group of nine universities is looking to answer as part of an ambitious digital credential initiative that aims to create a worldwide standard for issuing, […]

Ten Facts About Open Digital Badges

Open badges are created and issued by a wide variety of organizations, such as colleges, universities and other training providers, professional associations, non-profits and private companies, for their students, members, staff, clients and partners to recognize learning achievements. Techonline.ca  

Designing Digital Badges to Improve Learning in Virtual Worlds

Digital badges are digital indicators of achievement that are issued in response to a user action within a virtual environment. While badges have been successful in multiple domains, they do not always achieve their purpose. Past research indicates that this is likely a function of specific badging design and how well the badging system integrates […]

Online learning readiness and attitudes towards gaming in gamified online learning – a mixed methods case study

Gamification has gained a lot of attention in recent years as a possible way to foster students’ motivation and learning behavior. As a high drop-out rate is associated with distance learning, in particular with students often struggling to engage with the material, the implementation of gamification may support and enhance more successful online learning. A […]

Canvas Announces Badges Powered By Badgr For All Canvas Users

SALT LAKE CITY, July 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Canvas by Instructure, the open learning management system (LMS) that makes teaching and learning easier, will now offer Open Badges through Badgr as a native feature in Canvas. Badgr is an achievement recognition and tracking system built by Concentric Sky that is used to issue, organize and share […]

Northeastern University Launches Micro Credential Program in Computer Science

Northeastern University has created a new Micro Credential program for working professionals in California’s Bay Area looking to hone their skills in computer science. The program was created in partnership with mobile security company Lookout and is an extension of Northeastern’s Silicon Valley campus. Campus Technology 

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