CN Badges and Micro Certification in Education
Digital badges are trending among EdTech enthusiasts,
educators, and training programs alike. Aiding and even at times replacing
their outdated assessment counterparts, these badges are part of a larger topic
known as micro certification.
According to Teach&Learning these credentials are used to:
- Identify skills and individual work
- Recognize academic honors and diplomas
- Represent completion of certain courses or training
- Professional development
- Teacher Education
They are usually stored on ePortfolios
or Mozilla Backpack.
What does all of this have to do
with CourseNetworking?
Last month we welcomed in our
newest feature--CN Badge. The CN Badge allows instructors and institutions to
recognize students for their accomplishments and participation in courses.
Badge recipients can display their badges on their CN Portfolio, email them, or
push them to other social media sites like Linkedin, Facebook, and Twitter.
They can also collect and display them in their Mozilla Backpack, an open badge
infrastructure. A series of system predefined badges available to instructors
include Best Paper, Critical Thinker, Creative Thinker, Anar Badge, Top 10%,
and more. On CN instructors also have the opportunity to create their own
badges for students. Soon CN licensed
institutions will be able to award badges to students on the Dean’s list, those
who have graduated with honors, etc.
Check out our new badge feature on
CN today.
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