Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The two—which collectively serve about 180,000 learners—want to create a model that is customizable enough to help a high school student get a jumpstart on their associate degree and a 55-year-old professional learn a new skill. Birmingham will be ground zero for their learning and workforce model.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 16, 2017

June 27th, from 11:45 am–12:45 pm, in Room 301BC, I will be part of the ISTE panel, Personalize Professional Learning with Digital Badges and Micro-credentials , along with digital badging gurus Rich Dixon, Noah Geisel, and Cate Tolnai. June 24th, is the Hack Education Unconference in San Antonio.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2017

Digital badging has arrived on the scene as a leading contender to close this gap and help provide teachers with a clear path to professional growth, and the micro-credentials to prove it. Next page: Edtech as a starting point; looking ahead at digital badges for PD).

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

While this affords learners unprecedented freedom, it also can make it difficult to effectively recognize that learning. Specifically, educators can pursue micro-credentials, sharable as digital badges, to gain recognition for competencies they demonstrate throughout their careers, regardless of where it happens.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 4, 2018

Course Module Activities Include: Self-assessment Content delivery from Tom Murray and Eric Sheninger Independent readings Video case studies Podcasts Reflection questions Action items for completion that align with your specific role and context Learning Hours 20 hours. You are part of the solution. Register today!

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 12, 2018

In efforts to make time-mandated and compliance-based professional learning efficient, technology offers microcredentialing as a vehicle for educators to pursue personal growth. Traditionally, that requires educators to take courses, whether in the classroom or online. .

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Digital Promise

MARCH 12, 2019

Micro-credentials are a form of competency-based recognition that validate an educator’s professional learning. Micro-credentials can be earned as stand-alone badges of recognition or added together to achieve certification. This badge can be shared in email footers, on professional profiles, and on social networks.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

There is a great deal of talk these days about micro-credentials and digital badging as a means to acknowledge professional learning of educators. Check out what Mozilla has created with their Open Badges platform. Acknowledging the informal learning of educators had been a long- neglected area in schools, and Ms.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 17, 2019

The ACT Network schools share their solutions not only across the network, but nationally at two Forging Innovation in Rural Education (FIRE) Summits and on KVEC’s place-based learning platform, The Holler. Micro-credentials provide personalized professional development opportunities aligned to theory of action plans.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 8, 2021

According to experts from the edWebinar, “ The Transformation and Funding of PreK-12 Professional Learning in the COVID Era,” sponsored by Simba Information, a business of Market Research.com, research shows that recent trends in professional learning are here to stay. How Vendors Can Help. Join the Community.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 8, 2016

Studies suggest American schools invest $18 billion in teachers’ professional learning annually. But considerable evidence indicates that formal professional development often misses the mark. And while teachers are also learning in informal ways, existing systems don’t track or make the most of that growth. .

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 1, 2019

During the edWebinar “ Digital Badge Credentials: Preparing Students with Special Needs for Employment,” the presenters discussed how and why digital badges can help students validate their training and verify their credentials with prospective employers. Many times, though, the problem is also a communication gap.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Planning professional learning – How many of us dreaded professional development (PD) days? They should also have choice over resources that they, the experts who work with students the most on a day to day basis, feel are valuable to support and enhance learning.

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More Verbs

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

iLearnMaine Educator Micro-credentials – The first state program to leverage micro-credentials and digital badging for professional learning. We are partnering with Digital Promise. ” and by providing educators with quality models and examples.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

ATLANTA (PRWEB) NOVEMBER 03, 2021 — MobileMind , the modern professional learning hub for schools, has launched MobileMind Sync, the first full-service PD scheduling solution. Visit mobilemind.io to learn more about MobileMind Sync and the modern professional learning hub.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 7, 2019

Now, organizations like Digital Promise have developed micro-credential programs, which recognize educators for acquiring new skills. The goal of micro-credentials, according to Younge, is to capture the educator demonstrating these skills and provide their schools with evidence of the professional learning. About the Presenter.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Are you waiting for the perfect professional learning opportunity? Now you can stop waiting and design your own DIY (Do-It-Yourself) learning that leads to edtech, coding, and makerspace certificates.

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Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2016

Micro-credentials recognize teachers for the skills they demonstrate, allow them to share their accomplishments in the form of digital badges, and can be used to lay a pathway for professional learning in the direction the educator wants to grow.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 16, 2015

In the previous post, we discussed building authentic cultures of professional learning. Today, we explore one of the design principles at the heart of micro-credentials – embracing learning as continuous process. This is where continuous learning can really shine. And so goes on the journey of continuous learning.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2021

ATLANTA— MobileMind , the modern professional learning hub for schools, has launched MobileMind Community, the industry’s first competency-based, crowd-sourced PD platform. Founded in 2015, MobileMind is a privately held, Atlanta-based educational technology company.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

It is still early in the adoption of these digital hiring practices—and how employers deploy them is still very much a “black box.” As those hiring methods go digital, they could speed adoption of new kinds of microcredentials and digital badges designed to show employers the fine-grained skills achieved during educational programs.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

They can prompt us to assess and measure student progress in new ways; both through digital badges that demonstrate mastery of specific skills and summative portfolios of work that indicate readiness for cutting-edge careers in manufacturing, STEM careers and the creative arts.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

To help support educators as they develop their skills around implementing Deeper Learning in their classrooms, Digital Promise has developed 40 micro-credentials that define concrete methods educators can use to implement Deeper Learning. Educators across the country are starting to implement Deeper Learning for their students.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO (April 14, 2021) – Micro-credentials provide districts an innovative way to recognize teachers’ exemplar skills while allowing teachers to show their mastery of teaching skills via a digital badge. However, many districts don’t pursue this professional learning approach because they think it is too complex to get started.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

To help support educators as they develop their skills around implementing Deeper Learning in their classrooms, Digital Promise has developed 40 micro-credentials that define concrete methods educators can use to implement Deeper Learning. Educators across the country are starting to implement Deeper Learning for their students.

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The Shake Up Learning Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This powerful tool can provide a space for teacher-to-teacher collaboration, professional learning and support, parent communication, and even special projects and enrichment classes for students. Related: Google Classroom Student Selector (Digital Popsicle Sticks!). Badging Systems. Online Professional Learning.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Micro-credentials, which provide recognition for these concrete competencies in the form of digital badges, could help facilitate this shift. Enrolling in such a program could provide educators an efficient and more structured way to engage in competency-based learning. In fact, I see the systems as complementary.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Traditional forms of professional development (PD) such as “sit and get,” one-size-fits-all, and trainings lacking accountability have proven obsolete. Digital tools now allow for professional learning to take place anytime, anywhere, and with anyone.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Digital badges, microcredentials and digital credentials… What sets them apart, or are they synonymous? The credentialing world has grown significantly in the last few years , resulting in an evolving and sometimes undefined digital education model.

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More Verbs

OCTOBER 19, 2015

15, by ACTEM and the Maine’s Learning Through Technology Team. What if schools and teachers had support for professional learning that met their needs and was on their own terms? The iLearnMaine Educator Micro-credential Program was announced Thursday, Oct.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Micro-credentials, which provide recognition for these concrete competencies in the form of digital badges, could help facilitate this shift. Enrolling in such a program could provide educators an efficient and more structured way to engage in competency-based learning. In fact, I see the systems as complementary.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Micro-credentials enable educators to better meet the needs of increasingly diverse student populations and school districts who want to shift professional learning from broad topics to competency, from seat-time to knowledge, from sporadic seminars to acknowledgment that teachers are life-long learners. Not anymore. personalized.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

This is especially true in rural communities with few options to support professional learning experiences. Traditional ESOL training and certification courses are typically based on credit accumulation, focusing on academic knowledge over real time application of learning.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The annual IMS Digital Credentials Summit brings together leaders from educational institutions, non-traditional learning organizations, government agencies, and technology suppliers to advance a digital credentials ecosystem that aims to transform the way students and lifelong learners present their knowledge and skills to future employers. [

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Edthena

JUNE 14, 2021

A rundown on what you need to know about micro-credentials and three ways they boost professional learning for educators are outlined in this EdTech Digest article by Adam Geller, founder and CEO of Edthena.

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Edthena

MARCH 30, 2021

Micro-credentials are an emerging method for helping teachers document their professional learning. They offer districts an innovative way to document teachers’ skills while allowing the teachers to share their progress with others via a digital badge. Now these barriers are eliminated.

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TeacherCast

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

She said to me something that was remarkable but at the same time, it was a simple concept that should be adopted by any school district wishing to put a value on the professional well-being of their staff members. What is professional development? What are digital badges? Let us look at another.

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