NatureBadges: Open Source Nature & Science Badge System is an exciting collaboration between the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) and LearningTimes. The team was recently awarded a grant from the Digital Media and Learning Competition 4 – Badges for Lifelong Learning competition for this important STEM badge-based learning program.
Release of BadgeStack v2.0 Gives More Flexibility to Badge-Issuing Organizations
New v2.0 features enhance student engagement and add increased flexibility for instructional designers and community managers issuing digital badges or microcredentials. A new and powerful automatic thresholds engine goes well beyond any existing learning achievement system.
Podcast: Martha J. Kanter and Jonathan Finkelstein on Digital Badges for Learning
Jonathan Finkelstein, founder of LearningTimes and director of the BadgeStack Project, recently spoke to Dr. Martha J. Kanter, Under Secretary of Education at the U.S. Department of Education. The discussion turned towards digital badges and the role they can play in education and workforce development.
University of Wisconsin-Stout “Games Course” Goes Live with BadgeStack
Here’s a real “meta” scenario: An online graduate-level course about the use of games and badges in learning — being offered in BadgeStack, replete with Mozilla-compatible badges for the learners taking the course.
BadgeStack Architecture and Connection to Open Source Ecosystem
A diagram offering a nifty overview of the BadgeStack system architecture and how it relates to the open source ecosystem.
BadgeStack Single Sign-On Now Available Through IMS Basic Learning Tools Interoperability
“IMS’s Basic Learning Tools Interoperability standards support seamless integration and interaction between learning systems,” said Dr. Rob Abel, Ed. D., Chief Executive Officer of IMS Global Learning Consortium, “and we’re excited to see adoption of BLTI standards in the emerging field of badge-based learning with systems like BadgeStack.”
BadgeStack Gives Organizations Power to Grant Mozilla Open Badge Infrastructure (OBI) Compliant Digital Badges
“We are excited about BadgeStack – it will bootstrap the badge ecosystem by enabling more organizations to easily become badge issuers. We are even more excited to see the OBI standards integrated into the BadgeStack system,” said Mozilla’s Learning Director, Erin Knight.
DML Stage 1 Winner: Citizen Schools
We are pleased to be integrating the Citizen Schools Apprenticeship Badges project into the BadgeStack DML proposal for stage 2. Citizen Schools will join several other DML Stage 1 Winners as BadgeStack partners and collaborators. Citizen Schools digital badges will function as visible manifestations of learning, documenting the effort and mastery of individual students, groups of students, and volunteers.
DML Stage 1 Winner: Smithsonian
Congrats to our colleagues at the Smithsonian whose proposal has advanced through Stage 1 of the Digital Media and Learning Badges Competition. We’re proud to be collaborating with the Smithsonian on this exciting badge-empowered learning initiative.
DML Stage 1 Winner: Financial Literacy Badges
We are delighted that BadgeStack partner MoneyWizdom has been selected as a stage 1 winner in the Digital Media and Learning (DML) Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition. We are working with MoneyWizdom to create a badge-empowered system that rewards learners as they learn and demonstrate skills needed to develop a plan for starting a small business.
BadgeStack Open Standards
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