Google Funds an Assessment Practices, Policies and Principles BOOC

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...

Initial Explorations in Digital Badges and Motivation

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...