scholarly journals Open badges: recognising learning through digital micro-credentials

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-61
Author(s):  
Teresa MacKinnon
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Open Source ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Identity Management ◽  
Online Identity ◽  
Meta Data ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Macarthur Foundation

What is it? Open badges are a 21st-century solution to the shortcomings of paper certificates in the age of digital, online identity management. These small visual signifiers which carry hard-coded meta-data can be issued by anyone in order to recognise achievement or participation in formal or informal activities. They link back directly to the issuer, the criteria for award, and the evidence. The learner can collect and display their open badges online to reveal their journey and discover new opportunities. Open badges emerged from the Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition in 2011 funded by the MacArthur Foundation and administered by HASTAC in collaboration with the Mozilla Foundation (MacArthur Foundation, 2012). The aim was to provide a “powerful new tool for identifying and validating the rich array of people's skills, knowledge, accomplishments, and competencies […to] inspire new pathways to learning and connect learners to opportunities, resources, and one another” (HASTAC, 2020, n.p.). The open badge infrastructure is based on an open source set of standards which have enabled the ‘baking’ of meta-data within a digital image through the use of an open badge platform. Open badge platforms are free to access, at least initially, offering educators the opportunity to create visual, shareable micro-credentials which recognise a learner’s journey.

scholarly journals Internet of Samples (iSamples): Toward an interdisciplinary cyberinfrastructure for material samples

GigaScience ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Davies ◽  
John Deck ◽  
Eric C Kansa ◽  
Sarah Whitcher Kansa ◽  
John Kunze ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Data Standards ◽  
Meta Data ◽  
Cross Domain ◽  
Data Stewardship

Abstract Sampling the natural world and built environment underpins much of science, yet systems for managing material samples and associated (meta)data are fragmented across institutional catalogs, practices for identification, and discipline-specific (meta)data standards. The Internet of Samples (iSamples) is a standards-based collaboration to uniquely, consistently, and conveniently identify material samples, record core metadata about them, and link them to other samples, data, and research products. iSamples extends existing resources and best practices in data stewardship to render a cross-domain cyberinfrastructure that enables transdisciplinary research, discovery, and reuse of material samples in 21st century natural science.

scholarly journals An Open Source Software for the Measurement of Deformation Fields by Means of Digital Image Correlation

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (S2) ◽  
pp. 820-821 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Vanderesse ◽  
M. Lagacé ◽  
F. Bridier ◽  
P. Bocher
Keyword(s):  
Digital Image Correlation ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Correlation

Extended abstract of a paper presented at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2013 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, August 4 – August 8, 2013.

scholarly journals Wikipedia's Success and the Rise of the Amateur-Expert

2014 ◽  
pp. 1157-1181
Author(s):  
Christopher Sweet
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Online Encyclopedia ◽  
Wisdom Of The Crowds

The Free Online Encyclopedia, as Wikipedia calls itself, is a radical departure from traditional encyclopedias and traditional methods of knowledge creation. This chapter is an examination of how a community of amateurs on Wikipedia has challenged notions of expertise in the 21st century. It does so by first looking at the roots of Wikipedia in a phenomenon known as the “wisdom of the crowds” and in the open source software movement. The reliability of Wikipedia is examined as are the claims made by major critics of the project. Throughout, epistemological questions raised by Wikipedia are addressed.

scholarly journals MultiDIC: An Open-Source Toolbox for Multi-View 3D Digital Image Correlation

IEEE Access ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 30520-30535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Solav ◽  
Kevin M. Moerman ◽  
Aaron M. Jaeger ◽  
Katia Genovese ◽  
Hugh M. Herr
Keyword(s):  
Digital Image Correlation ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Correlation ◽  
3D Digital Image Correlation

A Traditional African Perspective of Blended Learning

2012 ◽  
pp. 15-28
Author(s):  
Mejai B. M. Avoseh ◽  
Olugbenga Abimbola Fayomi ◽  
Bolanle Clara Simeon-Fayomi
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Lifelong Education ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
African Education ◽  
African Perspective ◽  
Western Perspective

Paradigm shifts in education have, in most cases, been linked to changes in the context and content of education. Most nouveau ideas in education in the 21st century have been linked directly or indirectly to globalization. One of such shifts is the re-invention and importance of lifelong learning. The dialogue on lifelong learning and its content-dependent characteristics have imposed the need for a diversity of perspectives beyond the traditional Western perspective. The purpose of this chapter is to present the theoretical framework for blended learning from the perspective of the holistic indigenous African education, which was in its entirety blended and lifelong. The chapter uses reference to the interconnectedness of lifelong education to all facets of life in traditional Africa. It analyzes the connection between formal, non-formal, and informal, the use of observation, initiation, and apprenticeship, the environment, and a host of other blending variables, to build and develop the arguments.

Literacy as a Bridge to Quality of Life

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-35
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Key Competencies ◽  
Educational Professional

Information technology spreads through the life of the whole society in the educational, professional, and personal lives. It heightens the requirements for the reader's competence and defines key competencies for the 21st century. The requirement for the successful entry to the job market is increasingly about the competency to handle information technology. The problems in reading are a major source of challenges in the inclusion. Strengthening of the reader's skills and extending the offer for lifelong learning is therefore key for overcoming these challenges. This chapter explores literacy as a bridge to quality of life.

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