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Obtaining Employer Input for Validation of Micro-Credentials
Community colleges have a long history of engaging local employers to guide curriculum design and delivery decisions.
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Authentic Assessment and Digital Badges
Digital badges fit perfectly into a remote learning model. With emergency closures of school buildings due to the pandemic, instructors yearn for ways to engage and motivate students in a remote environment. Robin Nickel summarizes Adam Shaw’s design steps and compare them to digital badge design and assessment.
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College-wide workforce skills as digital badges – Faculty Q&A
I’m often asked about integrating badges into existing grading plans for credit courses. At Madison College, students are assessed in eight soft skills, called Core Workforce Skills, and in 2020 instructors began issuing digital badges to students earning them across a variety of credit courses.
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We’ve decided to badge…Now what? | 6 Tips to build your first badge
You’ve decided on a badging platform (whether external or internally created and managed), and are now ready to start integrating badges into your existing educational programming. The following 6 Tips should help as you head down the path to building a digital badging program.
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Digital Credentials Institute | Higher Education Digital Badge Taxonomy
Millions of digital badges exist, with more entering the marketplace every day. With so many badges to decipher, how is someone supposed determine the value of any one specific badge…quickly?