Category: Digital Badges
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Navigating a Pathway for Educational Development: Te Whakawhanake Ara Mātauranga
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in Education, Academic Success and Support, Action Steps for Educators, adult education, Adult Tertiary Education, Adult vocational education, Aotearoa, Approaches, Business improvement, Collaboration, consulting, Cross-Cultural Understanding, cultural awareness, Cultural Capability, Cultural Competency, Cultural diversity, Cultural diversity and inclusion, Cultural Diversity in Education, Cultural Integration, Cultural Safety, Cultural Studies, Cultural values, Design, Design Thinking, Digital Badges, Education and learning, education and training, Education delivery model, Education insights, Education Strategies, Educational Frameworks, educational innovation, Educator Professional Development, Educator’s Journey, Framework, Frameworks, innovation and creativity, Innovation Strategies, Innovations in Teaching and Learning, micro-credentials, Māori Education Concepts, Māori Perspectives, Māori Philosophy, NZ, NZ Context, Te Ao MāoriExplore the journey of ‘Te Whakawhanake Ara Mātauranga,’ a transformative pathway for Māori educational development. This post delves into the cyclical process of learning innovation, rooted in Māori philosophies, through stages of potential, maturation, integration, and fulfillment. Discover how these stages intertwine to forge a dynamic, culturally enriched educational framework.
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What Are Micro-Credentials and Digital Badges?
Here’s an overview if you need to get up to speed on using digital badges and micro-credentials.
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What are micro-credentials? Actually, let’s talk about badges first
The idea of badging is not new. If you know a little about boy scouts or girl guides it’s easy to understand how they work. Here’s the basic idea. When you’ve proved that you know something, or that you can do something, then you get a physical emblem as a reward. You might want to…
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Will micro-credentials help with life-long learning?
Usually, questions posed like this are rhetorical. The writer already knows the answer. So… yes. They will. But there are other questions that need asking including Why and How? There’s a great article exploring some of this here. In the writer’s view, we’ve fixed one problem: At last, our system caters reasonably well for people’s…
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Digital badges – Part 2: Earning your first badge
If you’ve set up a Mozilla Backpack account already (see my last post for instructions), then you can have a go at earning your first digital badge. This is what I did first. Click here to earn the Navigator badge. Note: You won’t receive the badge if you don’t have the backpack account already set…
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Digital badges – Part 1: Getting started
One of my goals at the moment is to explore the world of digital badging and micro-credentials. Digital badges are: a validated indicator of accomplishment, skill, quality or interest that can be earned in various learning environments. If you’re interested you can follow along as well. Here is how I made a start: Checked out the home…