Session sponsored by GEAR UP Maine.

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? Is anyone using them in education for students?

Micro-credentials as a Learning System

• Scouting Merit Badges
• All About Micro-credentials
• Nellie Mae White Paper – Digital Badging and Micro-Credentialing
• iLearnMaine Project Home
• Open Badges Standard Technical Guide

Micro-credentials and Proficiency-based Grading

• Problems with Grades Based on Averages
• Don’t Play Blind Golf: Formative Feedback
• The Bugling Merit Badge

Educator Micro-credentials

• Digital Promise Educator Micro-credentials
• iLearnMaine Educator Micro-credentials page
• Proficiency-based Professional Learning
• 12 Professional Learning Buckets for Learning Through Technology (the teacher practices we’d like to promote)
• Digital Promise Home
• 7 Lessons Learned From Implementing Micro-credentials

Student Micro-credentials

• iLearnMaine Student Micro-credentials page
• Chicago Summer of Learning/City of Learning
• Cities of Learning
• Maine State of Learning
• AOS 94 PBE