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Interview with Noah Geisel, @SenorG: Motivate with Digital Badges!

Teacher Reboot Camp

Noah Geisel, @SenorG , is the first person who really taught me about the potential micro-credentials and digital badges have to motivate learners to achieve great things throughout their lives. I had used badges for my online learning conferences, but hadn’t quite used badges with students, yet.

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Designing Pathways for Rural Learners Using Micro-credentials: Four Case Studies

Digital Promise

These innovative institutions are: focused on supporting social mobility for poverty-impacted rural learners; prioritizing outreach to communities of color, returning citizens, and women; designing affordable, flexible, and meaningful skills training through micro-credentials; and. Read the complete UMS case study here.

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3 ways gamification engages students

eSchool News

In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of thousands of K-12 and college students have transitioned to online learning. However, not all teachers have received the adequate resources and training needed to teach remotely. One of the major issues teachers are struggling with is effectively engaging students.

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3 ways to use gamification to engage students

eSchool News

In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of thousands of K-12 and college students have transitioned to online learning. However, not all teachers have received the adequate resources and training needed to teach remotely. One of the major issues teachers are struggling with is effectively engaging students.

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It’s Time to Digitally Transform Community College

Edsurge

A Need for More Strategic Online-Learning Capacity Following the sudden move to online and remote learning across all of American higher education last spring, many community colleges will be operating online this fall. But are community colleges ready for this digital transformation?

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The Winners and Filmstrips of An (Almost) Decade in Education Technology

Edsurge

So with these guidelines in mind, I’ve chosen six areas where edtech has made an impact this decade: Learning Management Systems. Learning analytics. Digital badges. Adaptive learning systems. OK, so Learning Management Systems weren’t developed in the 2010s, but they sure didn’t improve much during this decade.

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Can Digital Badges Help Encourage Professors to Take Teaching Workshops?

Wired Campus

A few colleges are trying a new incentive to get professors to participate in professional-development workshops: digital badges. Among the most popular badge platforms are Credly and the Mozilla Open Badges project.