Tag: microcredentials
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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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Do you have questions about micro-credentials and digital badges?
Further thoughts on micro-credentials and digital badges A while back, NZQA were looking for consultation on micro-credentials. I wrote about my views here. These views haven’t changed drastically. But they have continued to evolve and everywhere I go people seem to want to talk about micro-credentials. Here are a few further thoughts. What’s the difference…
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NZQA is looking for consultation on micro-credentials
Micro-credentials and digital badging are things that I’ve been thinking about for a while. There have been some great discussions over recent months about this. I’m currently looking at learning more about how digital badging might work in a range of contexts including foundation learning. NZQA is looking to join the conversation. They are asking…
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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…