New eBook Examines Digital Credentials
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Providing Impact The director of social networking for HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory)/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition and a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, said her book “provides a building block for anyone interested in designing open digital badge systems, and also for educators, policymakers, technologists, humanists, scholars and administrators who have a stake in how badge systems might impact learning, assessment and opportunities for lifelong learners.” Endorsements Cathy N. Davidson, a leading figure in educational innovation and HASTAC co-founder notes: “We will never displace the Industrial Age invention of high stakes, multiple choice testing without a feasible alternative.Sheryl Grant helps us to consider realistic, workable options for the future.” David Theo Goldberg, director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute, co-founder of HASTAC and executive director of UCHRI’s Digital Media and Learning Research Hub, calls “What Counts as Learning” a “must read for anyone wanting to know about the ins and outs of badging, its benefits and challenges.” Grant, he said, “has been at the center of work around digital badging as a critical technology for assessing, acknowledging and credentialing learning.It is the latest in a series of reports, supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, published by the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub and by MIT Press, and edited by Ellen Seiter, professor of critical studies at USC School of Cinematic Arts.Media Contact: Mimi Ko Cruz, mcruz@hri.uci.edu, 949-824-4587 http://dmlhub.net/newsroom/media-releases/new-ebook-examines-digital-credentials Irvine, CA, October 02, 2014 --( PR.com )-- What do college degrees, high school diplomas and professional certificates have in common?Such a system is captured in open digital badges, or “simple tools that have the potential to change our current system of credentialing, creating ways to recognize more diverse learning pathways and opportunities for both learners and institutions for generations to come,” according to “What Counts as Learning: Open Digital Badges for New Opportunities,” the new eBook by Sheryl Grant.Providing ImpactThe director of social networking for HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory)/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition and a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, said her book “provides a building block for anyone interested in designing open digital badge systems, and also for educators, policymakers, technologists, humanists, scholars and administrators who have a stake in how badge systems might impact learning, assessment and opportunities for lifelong learners.”EndorsementsCathy N. Davidson, a leading figure in educational innovation and HASTAC co-founder notes: “We will never displace the Industrial Age invention of high stakes, multiple choice testing without a feasible alternative.