Digital Badges in Education: Trends, Issues, and Cases

Whom Will Digital Badges Empower? Sociological Perspectives on Digital Badges

The workshop preserved the general OBIE focus on opportunities and challenges associated with Open Badges, and the overall objective of connecting educators, researchers, and entrepreneurs in discourses on teaching, learning, assessment, digital credentials, and digital education in general. Still, considering the context where it took place, namely the major international conference on learnin...

Canadian LIS education: Trends and issues

Interviews with the directors or program chairs of Canada’s seven graduate schools of library and information studies revealed that schools face four common issues: (1) relocation within the university administrative structure or partnership with other academic units, (2) introduction of broader curriculum menus and more flexible course schedules, (3) closer liaison with industry for research f...

Digital Libraries and Education: Trends and Opportunities

This article builds on work in the past few years, triggered by Ticer course [Roes, 1999] and consulting activities, notably for the Dutch Open University and the Amsterdam University for Professional Education. It attempts to identify strategic issues for libraries wishing to pursue a more active policy with regard to the changes affecting higher education due to the increased use of informati...

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Some Trends and Issues in Foreign Language Education

The barrage of new trends and new foci in language teaching and learning can create a sense of unease among language educators, pulling them in many directions, as linguistic, cultural, technical, and educational considerations compete for time and space in their conceptual frameworks. It is a feeling shared by all those who are engaged in second language acquisition (SLA). Indeed, the burgeoni...