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Blockcerts : The Open Initiative for Blockchain Certificates
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Digital Portfolios + Micro-credentials = Massive Impact for Students & Teachers - Digital Promise
- Micro-credentials can serve as a scaffolded approach to personalizing professional learning for educators.
- Digital Promise’s micro-credential platform, powered by BloomBoard, houses more than 300 micro-credentials on skills teachers can develop in real-time, job-embedded contexts. Each micro-credential leverages research-backed methods and provides a clear path for educators to explore, develop, and understand best practices.
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General Technology Competency and Use Framework | GTCU, EILAB
- What should learners learn? What should teachers teach? What should teachers know?
- The original objective of this particular project was, and remains, to develop a model of technological competencies that is consistent with other current educational theories, and completely applicable in any discipline or area of human activity outside of education, and therefore not limited to a pedagogical perspective
- Four Orders of Technological Competency
- imply the development of Four Orders of Competency, either as a prerequisite to making effective and efficient use of the technology, or as a result of using the technology for said purposes.
- practical knowledge generally developed through experience with the technology and applied as usable methods to interact effectively and efficiently with the technological object itself.
- communications experiences and centered on a genuine concern for the needs of others, in order to develop and use a strategy of thinking about, and acting with, others online, that is safe, respectful, viable and ethical
- An array of theoretical and practical knowledge generally developed by reflecting on results of a variety of document gathering activities in order to extract usable methods for the aggregation, identification, selection, organization and interpretation of information.
- An array of theoretical and practical knowledge about a specific discipline or domain generally developed through formal studies or experience and applied as usable methods to use domain specific digital tools effectively and efficiently.
- assign information processing tasks (computational use) to a digital tool (such as a spreadsheet, a database, a photo or music editing system or any other information processing software, including programming languages and authoring systems), for identifying and solving of problems or for the accomplishment of specified tasks.
- Everything we do with digital technology is a reflection of the combination of our intent and the technical possibilities of the tools themselves
- The GTCU Profile instrument asks questions regarding these Technical, Communicational, Informational and Computational uses of digital technology and then groups the results along the same lines giving us the following four orders of competency: Technical, Social, Informational and Epistemological.
- The generated graphs using Frequency of Use and Confidence of Use as major indicators of competency reflect these variations and thus illustrate our individual General Technological Competency and Use Profile
- Confidence of use is therefore considered here to affect motivation that in turn will affect the potential for learning and for improving competency.
- The relative competency of a user is therefore considered to grow with the breadth and frequency of experience.
- associated competency and skill development with different groups.
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ICDE 2017 - Phill Hill - Future of LMS
Go to source page. Note slide 6: the limitations of MOOCs are really making LMS' gain more prominence nor less. Slides 9 and 10 is showing what online learning used to be - something in the corner - because they were let loose, their impact is significant. Importance and value of online learning on slide 12 Important remark on slide 15 Slide 18,19, 20: the addition of incredible features to LMS, so not needed. the big ones showcased on slide 23. Note slide 24, where Canvas from the list of new comers is the only one becoming mainstream Note inflection point for Moodle and Sakai on slide 26 (North America only), then outside of North america on slide 27. Slide 28: Moodle still reigns, followed by Blackboard. Note especially in Latin America Slide 30: importance of responsiveness to all devices Slide 31: use of mobile device Slide 32-34: the initial ideas behind LMS design - the fortress, with a timeline of added features as the technology outside the LMS advanced (it was replicated inside the LMS) Slide 35-36: is the rupture of this pattern, with the break of the walls and finally the use of external tools as part of the LMS Slide 37: another important trend - analytics - which can bring back personalization to teaching. Personalization trends on slide 41 Main point made again at the end on slide 43
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Create Awesome course layouts using these Top 11 Moodle course formats #Moodle - Moodle World
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Survey: Most Students Say Technology Boosts Academic Success -- Campus Technology
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Improved Surveys Show How and Why Students Use Technology | EdTech Magazine
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What’s Keeping Competency-Based Education Out of Higher Education’s Mainstream? | The EvoLLLution
Saturday, October 28, 2017
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WGU Audit: Likely impacts for fragile movement of competency-based education -
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Exploring the Effect of Confusion in Discussion Forums of Massive Open Online Courses
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An investigation into the perspectives of providers and learners on MOOC accessibility
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A Unique Training for a Unique Talent Integrating a MOOC into blended learning approach
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The #1 Most Important Question to Answer in Your Digital Badge System Design
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Avoiding pointless (Open Badges-related) blockchain projects
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From blockchain to BadgeChain (1) – BadgeChain – Medium
- Open Badges are trust statements that could be combined to create chains and networks of trust. The information on how the members of the network trust each other can be used as the basis to establish trustworthy transactions
- Blockchains on the other hand are a means to establish trustworthy transactions even if those engaged in transactions do not trust each other.
- The blockchain technology was designed to eliminate the human factor from making the decision on whether a transaction is trustworthy or not.
- trustworthy transactions are possible without the involvement of any trusted authority (a bank, a notary or a registrar) and despite the fact that the parties involved do not trust each other.
- With the BadgeChain, trust is a property emerging from the participants’ behaviour, with blockchain trust is a property that ignores participants behaviour.
- One builds dynamic multidimensional networks i, the other an ever growing unidimensional chain. One is able to add and delete data (withdraw trust), the other can only add data (write only).
- One has emerged from the world of informal education, the other from the formal world of international business and finance.
- blockchains, even in their infant stage, are far superior to the current Open Badge technology for storing academic credentials. Moreover it is an opportunity for institutions to reassess their power as
- credentialing authorities.
- The integration model is a means for the Open Badge practitioners to continue business as usual while exploiting the unique properties of blockchains to correct some of the shortcomings of the current Open Badge Infrastructure.
- integration is the ability create fully trustworthy and easy to verify records.
- Service providers (e.g. issuing platforms) will be free to concentrate on added value services rather than trying to improve an idiosyncratic technology.
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Saturday, October 7, 2017
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At MIT and Georgia Tech, MOOCs Are Showing Up On Campus — Class Central
- In this case, on-campus students were taking the EXACT same course as MOOC students around the world, and they were earning credit. Credit is a real world currency that society understands, acknowledges, and values. When on-campus students use MOOCs to earn credit, it validates the rigors of the course and even improves the credibility of non-credit certificates. The fact that the on-campus students did most of the coursework on edX helps to validate the platform as well.
- For both MIT and Georgia Tech, the results from both these pilots have been promising. Students in the online version at MIT rated the course as significantly less stressful than their on-campus classes. At Georgia Tech, based on test scores, no statistically significant differences were observed
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Top 10 Text To Speech (TTS) Software For eLearning (2017 Update) - eLearning Industry
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Understanding LinkedIn Business Model | Understanding Business Models
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Managing Your Lifelong Learning Has Never Been Easier — Class Central
- Lifelong learning is an economic imperative: technological change demands stronger and continuous connections between education and employment. Ongoing learning and skill development is essential to survive the economic and technological disruption
- The vast amount of material available today can, however, lead to less than optimal study practices
- Make an action plan and set SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-bound) learning goals. Define general knowledge areas (long term: 2–4 years), specific topics (mid term: 3–6 months), and dedicated courses (short term: 2 months).
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