What’s all the fuss about micro-credentials and digital badging? What are they and how do I earn them? What do they have to do with professional development and personalizing learning for educators? What’s the iLearnMaine Educator Micro-credentials program? Attend this session and not only discover answers to these questions, but get a head start on figuring out which micro-credentials you might like to earn!
An Overview of Proficiency-based Professional Learning.
iLearnMaine Educator Micro-credentals
- Project Home
- Proficiency-based Professional Learning
- 12 Professional Learning Buckets for Learning Through Technology (the teacher practices we’d like to promote)
- All About Micro-credentials
- Nellie Mae White Paper – Digital Badging and Micro-Credentialing
Digital Promise & Educator Micro-credentials
- Digital Promise Educator Micro-credentials
- Digital Promise Home
- 7 Lessons Learned From Implementing Micro-credentials
Maine’s Initiatives (Where we learned we needed professional learning that is proficiency-based):
- MLTI (Maine Learning Technology Initiative)
- Auburn’s iPads in Primary Grades Initiative
- Auburn’s Leveraging Learning Institute (primary grades iPads)
- There is now a statewide (Maine) pilot of Primary Grades Literacy and iPads
- Proficiency-based Learning
Some Possible Professional Learning Curricula:
- Maine Learning Technology Framework
- A Plain English Instructional Model
- 12 Professional Learning Buckets for Learning Through Technology
- Not All At Once: Breaking Your Initiative Into Phases
Possible Systems for Tracking Professional Learning:
- Educate (a learning progress management system for proficiency-based learning)
- Micro-credentials
- Micro-credentials 101 – Workshop Resources
- Digital Promise Educator Micro-credentials
- Digital Promise Home
- 7 Lessons Learned From Implementing Micro-credentials
- Mike’s Consulting: StudentLearning.Guru
- McMEL (Maine Center for Meaningful Engaged Learning)
- Blog: MultiplePathways.info
- Learning Through Technology Blog: MoreVerbs.info
- Micro-credentials Project: iLearnMaine.org