Badges Unlocked

Badges Unlocked is a series of sessions exploring the power and potential of digital credentials for learning. We’ve invited leaders in the field of digital badges to DevLearn so that we can put a spotlight on the state of badges today and provide a forum of discussion that will help shape the future of badges and digital credentials.

The Badges Unlocked program consists of carefully curated sessions brought to you by many of the industry’s leading experts on badges and digital credentials:

Digital Badges and the Future of Learning

Connie Yowell, Director of Education, MacArthur Foundation

Wednesday, September 30, 4:15p – 5:15p

Connie Yowell will examine the current state of badges in education and training, exploring what’s working and what opportunities still need to be explored. You will leave this session inspired to reexamine the ways your organization measures and credentializes learning and competency. More…

The Badges Unlocked sessions include:

• Unpacking Badge Analytics: What Metadata Can Tell Us, Anh Nguyen, Sheryl Grant
• Open Badges, Big Data, and Analytics: Harnessing Innovation to Motivate and Engage the Workforce, Leslie Eldridge
• Progressive Credentials, Digital Badges, and Talent Management, Bernard Bull
• Open Badges: How IBM Launched a Bold New Initiative to Attract, Engage, and Progress Talent, David Leaser
• Solo Workers and Just-in-Time Learning, Pete Janzow
• Where Digital Badges Work Better, Daniel T. Hickey
• Up and Running with Badges, MaryAnne Nestor
• Creating Dynamic Digital Badge Art on a Shoestring, Carl Nestor
• Badging 21^st-century Skills, Anne Derryberry
• Making Sense of the New World of Digital Credentialing, Carla Casilli