Digital Badges

Digital badges are an assessment and credentialing mechanism that is housed and managed online. Badges are designed to make visible and validate learning in both formal and informal settings, and hold the potential to help transform where and how learning is valued. 

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Join @whitehouseostp for #WeTheGeeks Google hangout happening now: http://t.co/b7x64wbCQ1 Discussion on #STEM and #Badges

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What is a Badge?

How do we recognize and value the way we learn today? Badges are a new idea to recognize the learning that happens anywhere and share it in the places that matter. Watch

VIDEO: @billclinton announces @macfound @OpenBadges, @msurman & @HASTAC launch of #OpenBadges commitment: http://t.co/lnRoBI2w95

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Better Futures for 2 Million Americans Through Open Badges

President Bill Clinton announced a Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action to massively expand access to a new method of academic and technical skills assessment known as Open Badges. Read More

LIVE: President Clinton announcing #badges commitment by @MacFound, @Mozilla & @HASTAC at #CGIAmerica http://t.co/067ji3jUfQ

WATCH: #CGIAmerica at http://t.co/067ji3jUfQ at 3:30 pm CT for a #badges announcement from MacArthur, @Mozilla & @HASTAC #Learning

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Mozilla Launches Open-Source Digital Badge Software

Open Badges software allows any organization to issue verified online learning badges and any individual to receive and collect those badges. Read More
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Chicago Children to Earn Digital 'Badges' in Citywide Learning Initiative

More than 143 organizations have joined the Summer of Learning initiative, offering summer programs for thousands of children. Read More