January 7 Webinar: Digital Badges: Free

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Digital Badges as an Open Passport for Learning   Speaker: Kyle Bowen, Director of Informatics, Purdue University Date: January 7, 2013 Time: 1:00 p.m. ET (UTC-5); convert to your time zone here. Duration: 1 hour   As we continue to reshape the form and method of instruction, it is increasingly important to recognize learning in all of its dimensions. Institutions have historically used "credit" as a blunt instrument to recognize course completion. Digital badges provide a new way to visually represent learning, achievements, skills, interests, or competencies that are linked to evidence of students' work. Purdue University recently launched Passport as a way to engage students and provide a new means of assessing learning. In this webinar, Kyle Bowen will explore the key concepts and lessons learned around Purdue's badge initiative and future directions for the technology. About ELI Webinars ELI webinars, hosted by Malcolm Brown and Veronica Diaz, feature one or more guests who are leaders in their fields with expertise in the topic at hand. The webinars are a series of hour-long, interactive, live web conferences focusing on innovations in teaching and learning that utilize technology. Made available as a service to ELI members, webinars are engaging, synchronous events in which participants can pose questions for the presenters and chat with other attendees. Participants and other members of ELI institutions have access to archived webinars to view at their convenience. Only ELI members can participate in a live webinar and access the archive anytime six months from the webinar date, after which point ELI webinar recordings become publicly available. Please see the ELI Events page for a list of past and future webinars. EDUCAUSE | ELI Webinars You are receiving this message because EDUCAUSE believes you will benefit from this information. To opt out of similar messages on ELI: E-mail us with "Remove ELI Announce" in the subject line. To unsubscribe from all EDUCAUSE e-mail:  E-mail us with "Remove All E-mail" in the subject line. Copyright 2012 EDUCAUSE | 282 Century Place, Suite 5000, Louisville, CO 80027 Privacy Policy | educause.edu | Share with a Friend