11 Essentials for Excellent ePortfolios
According to the Office of Research Consumer Guide, portfolios are “a collection of student work representing a selection of performance.” While artists have kept them for hundreds of years, portfolios emerged in modern education (PDF) from college writing…
Read More »Digital literacy is about asking the right questions
Being digitally literate is not just about knowing how to use programs or being aware of copyright law. It’s also about being able to ask the right questions. This is another reason to have a news section in…
Read More »Moodle Tin Can Launch Plugin
The Tin Can Launch plugin for Moodle(https://github.com/garemoko/moodle-mo…) allows you to launch Tin Can content and track that content to an external LRS configured in Moodle. The plugin then pulls data from the LRS back into Moodle to feed…
Read More »Mahara 15.04 update brings improved functionality
My recent update of my eportfolio site, Folioz, went without a hitch and the Mahara update brings many new improvements. The ability to choose/upload images from the editor is long overdue and has always been a glaring limitation…
Read More »Empowering Student Relationships With Media
Debates over children and media use are nothing new, but the technologies by which children primarily interact with media have changed significantly. Most guidelines related to “screen time” were developed when television was the dominant media, but new…
Read More »Students want better digital credentials
As it stands, diplomas represent degree completion and achievement, while transcripts provide a deeper level of detail as to how someone earned their degree. However, transcripts are more focused on student mobility within or between schools, and do…
Read More »IMS Global getting into Badges!
MS thinks that CBE and Badges are probably going to become intertwined as both progress into the future. CBE, at its most broad interpretation, is about relaying information about what a person is capable of doing, ideally including…
Read More »Open Badges in Professional Development: A Framework
An Open Badge is a digital representation of a skill or achievement earned from a creditable organization. This session presents a framework for how school districts can leverage open badges to encourage and reward professional growth through non-traditional…
Read More »The three biggest (perceived) problems with Open Badges | Doug Belshaw’s blog
I once again found myself in an Open Badges session with the good people from DigitalMe today. It was a very positive event overall and some exciting stuff will happen as a result. Attendees were given a chance to express the things that…
Read More »Badges for Learning: a review of the formative role of badges in two open online courses
The emergence of open online learning courses brings in to sharp relief the viability of existing forms of teacher provided formative and summative assessment. For such courses that carry no charge for participation alternative structures for engaging, motivating…
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