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So let’s explore a few online learning trends that I think are currently shaping how colleges and universities will prepare students for the future. Competency-basedlearning. Students have unique learning needs, and they also have different background knowledge. Digital credentials. Change is inevitable.
Enter micro-credentials : competency-based recognition for educator learning that is supported by digitalbadges. Four recent developments have set the stage for micro-credentials: #1 – Competency-basedlearning for students. 2 – The rise of digitalbadging.
Competency-basedlearning, digitalbadges, and online education can create more flexible pathways to support the social mobility of those who do not have the privilege to come to a campus to learn, but the human touch will always be needed to move the needle.
In contrast, imagine a world where educators may be immediately and widely recognized for specific knowledge, skills, and mindsets that they demonstrate in transparent, competency-based ways. Micro-credentials, which provide recognition for these concrete competencies in the form of digitalbadges, could help facilitate this shift.
In contrast, imagine a world where educators may be immediately and widely recognized for specific knowledge, skills, and mindsets that they demonstrate in transparent, competency-based ways. Micro-credentials, which provide recognition for these concrete competencies in the form of digitalbadges, could help facilitate this shift.
” However, after reading a description of micro- credentials, more than 70 percent of teachers surveyed said they are at least somewhat interested in them, and 65 percent of those surveyed said they are at least somewhat likely to try to earn micro-credentials as part of their professional development.
The Leveraging Linked Learning and Career-ready Badges project, funded by the Irvine Foundation , will create and prototype digitalbadges with Linked Learning educators in California.
The Leveraging Linked Learning and Career-ready Badges project, funded by the Irvine Foundation , will create and prototype digitalbadges with Linked Learning educators in California.
In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. CZI took over the engineering of the learning management system from Facebook in 2017.). Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.
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