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The article presents considerations with regard to the deployment of digital badges in educational programs so as to ensure their sustainability and manageability. Topics discussed include free-text response submissions by learners, document upload submissions and auto-graded quizzes. Considerations with regard to evidence-based learning are also presented.

The article presents considerations for ensuring the sustainability of digital badge integrated educational programs. Topics discussed include the approaches of Pennsylvania State University with regard to the matter, educational program evaluation time considerations for ensuing sustainability and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technology for the purpose.

The article presents considerations with regard to the assessment of digital badge-based educational programs. It outlines factors to consider with regard to making assessments within badges, which include learning outcomes, badge design philosophy and sustainability. Topics discussed include conduction of assessment through keyword-based search results, the benefits of automated assessment and the role of surveys in assessment.

The article presents considerations for the assessment of digital badging ecosystems, which include use of the BadgeRank search engine of company Badgr and use of social media platforms like LinkedIn.

The article offers information on various types of learning environments based on educational collaborations and partnerships, which include formal, semiformal and informal learning environments. It presents a detailed description of each environment with regard to the participation of learners and instructors and outlines the possible applications of digital badges in them.

An introduction is presented which discusses the focus of the issue on information literacy and the scope of digital badges in education and libraries.

There is a lot of flexibility when considering how badges could be integrated into semiformal and informal environments. They could be offered to student employees of the library, or perhaps students participating in an undergraduate research exhibition could complete badges if they identified a need to improve their independent research skills. If you decide to offer badges in this way, create a group and provide optional training to the individuals who will be working on the badges.

The article discusses the role of the educational organization IMS Global in creating a technical learning ecosystem by enabling learners to share digital badges and outlines details on the applications of digital badges in residential and online courses. It outlines the rise in popularity of these courses and depicts the increase in preferences of students towards pursuing them.

The article discusses the modern applications of digital badges and micro-credentials. Topics discussed include they being used by employers to measure employee credibility during the hiring process which was depicted from an employer survey, their use in educational applications in schools and colleges and their being used in public and academic libraries.

Another development related to micro-credentials and part of the overall ecosystem that may help to drive adoption is experiential transcripts. As discussed earlier, traditional transcripts are lacking in details and often don't include types of learning 11Library Technology Reports alatechsource.org April 2019 Micro-credentials and Digital Badges Edited by Emily Rimland and Victoria Raish outside traditional coursework. Job seekers may use.tools like e-portfolios or social media to enhance th

Details on various digital badging platforms are presented, which include Badge Wiki located at https://badge.wiki, Credly located at https://info.credly.com and Badgr located at https://badgr.com.

The article offers insights on digital badges or micro-credentials in education and outlines their advantages. Topics discussed include their application in study field like medicine, information technology and manufacturing, details on college transcript and digital badges to support data assessment, security and analysis. The social benefits of micro-credentials are also discussed.

The article presents considerations with regard to the assessment of digital badge-based educational programs.

The article discusses the importance of educational collaborations and partnerships for the success of the library instruction field. Topics discussed include the importance of information literacy instruction and integration, options for the implementation of digital badges in education and details on various learning environments and their applications.

A conclusion to the report with regard to the adoption of digital badges or micro-credentials in education, is presented. Topics discussed include the implementation of digital badges to have been slow, considerations with regard to their design and collaborations and partnerships pursued for the establishment of digital badge-based educational programs. Topics including deployment, sustainability and assessment of digital badges are also discussed.

The article presents considerations with regard to the deployment of digital badges in educational programs so as to ensure their sustainability and manageability. Topics discussed include the badge evaluation process, the necessity to conduct pilot studies on the matter and the badging platform at the Pennsylvania State University. Considerations with regard to free-text response submissions by learners are presented.

The article discusses the scope for the use of learning analytics in digital badge-based educational programs, which has been predicted to play a major role in the assessment of such programs.

The article presents considerations with regard to the assessment of digital badges in education. It outlines the assessment to be through three levels, which include within badges, across badge programs and through badge ecosystems. Topics discussed include the role of libraries in the open educational resources movement and the presence of metadata fields in an open badge.

A conclusion to the report on collaboration and partnership efforts for digital badge integration into the learning environment, is presented.

A conclusion to the report with regard to the deployment of digital badges in educational programs so as to ensure their sustainability and manageability, is presented.

The article discusses various completion models for digital badge integration into the learning environment, with details on various digital badges like required, recommended and optional badges.

The article offers insights on the completion rate of digital badge-based learning programs.

A conclusion to the report on the digital badging and micro-credentials ecosystem in education, is presented.

The article reviews the Badgr Pathway online digital credentials based learning tool from digital badge platform Badgr, which is located at https://pathways.badgr.io.

Details on two components of the digital badge ecosystem are presented, which include Learning Management Systems (LMSs) for online course content creation and Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) for making operating tools for LMS.

The article offers insights on micro-credentials and digital badges in education. Topics discussed include creators of digital badges following the open badge standard called the Open Badge Infrastructure (OBI), maintenance of the open badge standard by the IMS Global Learning Consortium and examples of metadata inclusion in an open badge. Details on badging platforms are presented.

The article reports on the use of artificial intelligence to help in evaluations for microcredentials. It mentions the program established by Pennsylvania State University Libraries, the increase in the number of submissions for microcredentials, and how the microcredentials provide evidence of education in granular skills.

The article discusses the highlights of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) panel session, titled "Sequenced Learning," held at the 129th American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference held in June 2010 in Washington, D.C. Attendees were challenged to think beyond the traditional boundaries of information literacy. Other topics focused on teaching 21st-century skills, creativity in teaching and personalization of assignments, and building digital literacies through multimedia assignments.

The article presents an excerpt from the article “Microcredentials and Digital Badges” by Emily Rimland and Victoria Raish in the April 2019 issue of "Library Technology Reports."