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Cross-posted at HASTAC by Andi Rehak and Daniel Hickey This post introduces the design principles for recognizing learning that are emerging  from the Design Principles Documentation Project (DPD).  A previous post summarized how the DPD project derived these principles. This is the first of four posts, to be followed...

by Daniel HickeyThis post is cross-posted at HASTAC.  This post is a brief update about the design principles that have emerged in our analyses and interviews of the 30 DML badges awardees. We will begin posting the initial set of design principles for using digital badges to support learning. Specifically we will put up consecutive...

by Daniel Hickey            I introduce eleven issues that I am going to have to address with my university in order to teach a free open online course on educational assessment.  I then explore the first issue, Intellectual Property, and how that issue intersects with instructional innovation in open courses. ...

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by Dan HickeyThis post describe the Big Open Online Course on assessment that was recently funded by Google.I am happy to announce that Google has kindly supported our proposed Big Open Online Course on Educational Assessment for the Fall of 2013. Here is the press release from IU. If you are interested I just started a Google Group that we will use...

By Cathy TranThis post introduces two of the newest members of the badges Design Principles Documentation Project and describes our efforts to examine the motivational practices and principles that we are uncovering across the 30 project funded to develop digital badges by the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning initiativeI just wrapped...

Dan HickeySheryl Grant from HASTAC recently posted a detailed summary of resources about uses of digital badges in highereducation.[1]It was a very timely post for me as I had been asked to draft just such a brief by an administrator at Indiana University where I work.  Sheryl...