What is a badge?
This video explains how digital badges are used to recognize the learning that happens anywhere and share it in the places that matter.
Digital Badge Systems: The Promise and Potential
Digital Badge Systems offers several policy recommendations for introducing digital badge programs to a greater number of school districts. The report also recommends safeguards at the state level to ensure competency-based learning does not lead to at-risk students falling behind their peers and widening of achievement gaps.
7 Things You Should Know About Badges
Open Badges Infrastructure (OBI)
The Open Badges Infrastructure is a standard and a platform for issuing, storing, and sharing “micro-credentials,” recognition for skills and achievements that learners have completed.
Micro-Credentials: Empowering Lifelong Learners
This article highlights the potential for digital badges and teacher professional learning.
Digital Promise Micro-Credential Initiative
This initiative provides a competency-based approach to assessing teaching practices, uses expert and peer reviews to ensure a rigorous standard and creates a clearinghouse where teachers can share best practices.
A Guide to Understanding Student E-Portfolios: K-12 Digital Portfolio Programs for College and Career Readiness
K-12 schools around the globe are piloting e-portfolio programs that allow students to showcase work, apply real-world skills, and track learning outcomes as they prepare for college and a career. This guide focuses on student-owned e-portfolios in the K-12 setting however, the same principles can be applied to teacher portfolios. Its purpose is to provide an introduction to e-portfolios and to explore how e-portfolios can be used throughout K-12 education.
Top State-by-State Twitter Chats
This article provides an overview of statewide Twitter chats related to education technology.
Teachers Guide on Creating Personalized Learning Networks
This web page provides a general overview of PLNs and multiple resources for educators related to PLNs.
Professional Learning in the Learning Profession: A status report on teacher development in the United States and abroad
This report provides an overview of professional learning and includes examples of formal and informal professional learning opportunities with some research regarding the effectiveness of self-directed learning opportunities.