The open badge movement has stemmed from the independent learning and massive open online course (MOOC) frameworks of empowering and motivating learners to complete noncredit academic work, either ...

The Graduate School is offering digital credential badges that graduate students and postdocs can earn as one of the school’s professional development opportunities. These badges augment a traditional ...

Do you need a college degree? This question is being asked more frequently as the cost of college continues to rise while the product -- a bachelor's degree - doesn't guarantee that the owner has ...

This coming fall, Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC will be rolling out a unique curricular initiative throughout its English Department that administers digital badges to students who ...

Across the globe, institutions of higher education and professional organizations are harnessing the power of digital badges to motivate, demonstrate, and verify training. Digital badges are currently ...

In the career and professional development space, we speak in the jargon of skills. We help students build skills, talk about their skills, transfer skills and translate skills—all in service of ...

For many adults, the thought of earning badges evokes childhood memories of sewing Boy Scout or Girl Scout patches onto sashes and vests. But some educators are hoping that the current generation of ...

There’s nothing quite hotter at the moment on the higher-ed front than alternative credentialing, and proponents, who once said that digital badges are great ‘supplements’ to a traditional degree, are ...

Today’s classrooms use a variety of learning approaches, some formal like lectures and some informal like watching videos. As a teacher, your learning is no different and your continuing professional ...

Do you want to feel like your skills are recognized in the workplace? There's a way to receive actual acknowledgment of your abilities that you can share and take with you — even if you move on to ...

This country is in the midst of a discussion on how we can show more respect for teachers and their profession. One idea is to empower and support them through digital badges, presented here by Julie ...

The odds are good that you accomplished something over the course of your life for which you were extremely proud, but the significance of that accomplishment was lost in the explanation to others.