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Free Webinar Series Focused on Digital Learning

The League for Innovation is partnering with IMS Global Learning Consortium on a free, two-part webinar series focused on digital learning. A recording of the first webinar, held on November 21, 2019, is available here. The second webinar, described below, will explore digital credentials.

Digital Credentials: A Key Tool for Community College Success

Thursday, February 20, 2020
3:00 p.m. EST

Community colleges have long played a vital role in providing pathways for traditional and nontraditional learners to advance in their academic pursuits, their communities, and in the workplace. Hear from institutional leaders enabling educational innovation and achievement in community college programs through verifiable, interoperable digital credentials.

The State University of New York will present its Micro-Credential Policy as implemented by SUNY Ulster Community College. Academically rigorous micro-credentials, usually represented by digital badges, recognize skills and competencies mastered. Micro-credentials have value on their own or stacked together to meet the requirements of an initial or advanced certificate or degree. Often comprised of courses from registered degree programs, micro-credentials are used to motivate existing students in a degree program, provide students with skills complementary to the major, meet immediate workforce needs, upskill incumbent workers, and serve as a flexible vehicle for lifelong learning.

The Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges is using digital credentials and pathways to support professional development for faculty and staff in the WA Community and Technical College system. The goal is to demonstrate the efficacy of digital badges to capture, recognize, and track professional development achievements, and create replicable models for CTC students to earn badges in academic and professional-technical coursework.

Click here to register.

Lloyd Holmes
Student Services Office
01/30/2020