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The Growing Potential Of Micro-Credentials

There is a neat bargain of verbalise these days virtually micro-credentials too digital badging equally a way to admit professional person learning of educators. While many organizations are trying to seize an chance to monetize this infinite for their ain benefit, a pioneer inwards micro-credentials created a gratis platform for whatever educator to purpose over 3 years ago. In Uncommon Learning I render insight into Laura Fleming’s pioneering run inwards this surface area with the unproblematic premise of acknowledging the informal learning that many educators at in ane trial engage inwards on a daily basis. 

Micro-credentials tin flame live on used to guide, motivate, too validate informal learning. Check out what Mozilla has created with their Open Badges platform. Acknowledging the informal learning of educators had been a long- neglected surface area inwards schools, too Ms. Fleming felt she could brand a large acquit upon there. She felt that a digital badge based scheme would allow participating educators to acquire too earn badges anytime too anywhere. Educators could too so purpose those badges to ready too communicate their ain reputations to their colleagues too to senior staff, capturing a consummate flick of their ain professional person evolution for others to see. 


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Worlds of Learning provides a framework that allows whatever educator to earn micro-credentials for gratis through learning virtually a make of technology scientific discipline tools too applications too and so putting what they acquire into practise inwards their ain teaching. The platform developed past times Laura Fleming inwards 2013 has been designed so that its resources volition assist to ready educators to fully leverage the potential for mastering digital-age skills equally embodied inwards the International Society for Technology inwards Education (ISTE) Standards for Teachers equally good equally assisting them to plow over the seamless integration of technology scientific discipline equally addressed past times the Common Core State Standards. 

As technology scientific discipline convergence too integration continues to growth by too large inwards our society, it is paramount that teachers have the skills too behaviors of digital-age professionals. Educators should live on comfortable teaching, working, too learning inwards an increasingly connected global digital society. The existent aim of educational technology scientific discipline should live on to modernize pedagogy too to shape the instruction of the future. Registered users on the Worlds of Learning site tin flame induce got the tools presented on the platform too integrate them seamlessly into meaningful learning that addresses the standards inwards their respective content areas for free.

Laura has streamlined the user sense on the platform equally much equally possible. Teachers (or indeed anyone who wants to join) but register on the platform. Members tin flame too so pick out to acquire virtually a tool from alongside the (growing) choice of badges she has on the site. Her badges include those for mastering tools similar Buncee, Padlet, too ThingLink equally good equally a multifariousness of other web- based tools. 

To acquire virtually each tool, Laura provides a deliberately brief description of what the tool is. She also includes a real curt screencast that provides an overview of how to purpose each tool too a brief written description of how the tool tin flame live on used too how the tool tin flame live on integrated effectively into the curriculum through the Common Core. Educators tin flame earn the badge past times too so assimilating what they’ve learned into their ain instruction inwards around way. Users submit “proof” to her that they induce got done so. Their bear witness mightiness consist of a spider web link to a page or site that demonstrates what they induce got done, a lesson plan, a video of classroom practice, or fifty-fifty a text description of how they or their students induce got used the tool. Upon receiving documentation, she issues a digital badge for their learning. 

Educators desire to do their ain professional person learning paths, they desire to acquire anytime too anywhere, too they desire to have appropriate too authoritative credit for their informal learning. Laura believes that the success of this platform rests on the fact that educators tin flame induce got command of their ain learning too that they tin flame hence acquire what they desire to acquire when they desire to acquire it.  I, for one, could non live on to a greater extent than proud of what Laura created too that this resources is gratis for anyone to use. Those organizations pirating her run for turn a profit too claiming it to live on their ain should at the real to the lowest degree give her the proper credit that she deserves.

So what are your thoughts virtually using micro-credentials equally a way to guide, motivate, too validate both the formal too informal learning of educators?

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