2023 Badge Summit: Full Schedule

11:00am MDT

Pre-Conference: Rethinking Learning Pathways: How to Equip Students and Graduates for the Workforce of Tomorrow

**You will need to register to access the zoom: https://info.credly.com/webinar-rethinking-learning-pathways**

A recent survey of employers revealed that 59% of respondents are considering eliminating the requirement of a college degree in job specifications. And over the past year, LinkedIn recorded a 21% increase in U.S. job listings that focused on skills rather than traditional qualification requirements. But how can the traditional college degree support this focus on skills over certification? Learning pathways need to be flexible, adjustable and personalized to support a multitude of career paths for students entering the workforce. In this table top talk we’ll explore

How higher education institutions can support the need for flexible pathways
How collaboration with workplaces can help inform learning pathways
How students can communicate and demonstrate their skills to future employers through digital credentials

Speakers

Lindsey Dewit

Peony Scott

Tuesday July 18, 2023 11:00am - 12:00pm MDT

Deep-Dive Interactive, Virtual

12:30pm MDT

[ON DEMAND] Pre-Conference Webinar: How can we open up the recognition of lifewide learning?

Based in part on my blog post "Recipes for recognizing diverse badges and micro-credentials", this is also known as Open Recognition 101.This session will explore how an "inclusive" taxonomy across a broad spectrum of formality helps open up the recognition of personalized, lifewide learning with a positive impact on lives and careers.
It's based on my experiences since discovering Open Badges in 2011, consulting work for organizations like eCampusOntario, Inter-American Development Bank, CSUDH and ITCILO and ongoing advocacy for Open Recognition across a number of communities of practice, including the Open Recognition Alliance and the ePIC confererence, the Open Recogniton Workgroup of the Open Skills Network, and Keep Badges Weird/Open Recognition is for Everybody.

https://vimeo.com/854522741/4a0c61e843?share=copy

Speakers

Don Presant

President, Learning Agents, CanCred.ca

Don is Canada's leading expert on Open Badges and consults on large scale international projects related to badges, micro-credentials and recognition. He is President of CanCred by Learning Agents, a leading Canadian cloud service for Open Badges.In 2017, Don co-hosted the first... Read More →

Tuesday July 18, 2023 12:30pm - 1:15pm MDT

Deep-Dive Interactive, Virtual

Audience Engaged, Experienced, Geek, Novice

6:00am MDT

Pre-Conference: T3 Innovation Network

**Registration Required**

Our friends at the T3 Innovation Network have invited Badge Summit attendees to virtually join their Mid-Year Meeting. The in-person gathering is available online and will be of particular interest to people interested in technologies and ecosystems, especially in relation to A.I. and tools that will create the connective tissue between opportunities, and the trusted recognition of skills and competencies that will help access those opportunities. See the full agenda.

Event Description:The future of work is upon us. To meet the needs of the modern workforce, we must digitally transform the talent marketplace.

Join us on July 19 for the T3 Innovation Network’s Mid-Year Meeting, hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, where we will discuss how digital innovations and emerging technologies like Learning and Employment Records (LERs) and artificial intelligence (AI) are enabling the ecosystem to facilitate this digital transformation.

On July 19, our main event will bring together many of our partners and key stakeholders who are working to create a future ready workforce.

Join us as we hear from leading innovators about current projects and new and exciting initiatives that are all working in unison to facilitate the digital transformation of the talent marketplace.

Registration is required.

About the T3 Innovation Network:
The T3 Network, made up of employers and business associations, educators, technology vendors, government agencies and others, is facilitating the digital transformation of the talent marketplace by engaging in projects that (1) make all learning count, (2) enable competencies and skills to be used like currency in the labor market, and (3) empower learners and workers with data they can use to advance their career and education journeys.

Speakers

Taylor Hansen

Wednesday July 19, 2023 6:00am - 4:00pm MDT

10:00am MDT

[ON DEMAND] Pre-Conference: The Changing Digital Credential Landscape: Lessons from the Field Driven by Recent Research

To be addressed in this session:

Skills-based hiring momentum and “skillification” – bypassing credentials?
Need for employers and their HR/talent acquisition tech systems to adapt to account for richer skills information and digital credentials
Rise of intermediaries is one of many points supporting the need for collaboration/standards
Quality assurance bodies are still catching up with the boom in digital credentialing and badging
Various providers/institutions are at different places in their journey along a “microcredential maturity spectrum” … most of course are still exploring and piloting… but how do we move toward “institutionalization” ?
Advice for institutions getting started with badging and creating a framework
- Metrics for success, alignment with institutional goals, tech requirements, etc.
Partnerships with Employers and community partners
Thinking Strategically about People, Outcomes, Governance, QA, Finance, etc. when issuing new microcredentials

https://vimeo.com/858700882/730a1650bc?share=copy

Speakers

Sean R. Gallagher

Executive Professor of Educational Policy, Northeastern University

Dr. Sean Gallagher is founder and Executive Director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy, and Executive Professor of Educational Policy.Sean joined Northeastern in 2009 and is a nationally recognized expert with nearly 20 years... Read More →

Ellen Stoddard

Thursday July 20, 2023 10:00am - 10:45am MDT

Workshop, Virtual

7:45am MDT

Details on parking and getting to Badge Summit

Helpful details for IN-PERSON attendees:

Getting to the Conference: Registration and checkin will be in the University Memorial Center. For pre-conference workshops in the CASE building, it is right next door.
- The address linked above will work for walking, ride share, etc. If you arrive via bus, get off at the Broadway & Regent Dr. stop and use the map directions from there (2 minute walk).
- If you have the mountains to your back, enter the main doors in front of you (there will be a white tent on your right). Our checkin desk will be to your right in the foyer.

Complimentary Parking will be in the Euclid Parking Garage
- You must claim a digital permit each day. Instructions for accessing your parking permit.
- After parking, if you exit the garage from where you entered it, the UMC building (and the white tent pictured above) are about 50 meters to your right.
Monday morning pre-conference workshops begin at 8:30am. Breakfast is not provided on Monday but there is a Starbucks inside the UMC.
On Tuesday, breakfast and lunch are included.
For those staying around Wednesday and joining the post-conference workshops, they will all be in the CASE building (above the parking garage and host to our opening and closing plenaries, so you'll be familiar by Wednesday). Continental breakfast is provided on Wednesday.

Monday July 24, 2023 7:45am - 8:15am MDT

8:30am MDT

Pre-Conference: Badge Summit Onboarding

Make the most of your Badge Summit! Get the fundamental vocabulary of the digital credentialing ecosystem well in hand, and establish the background schema you'll need to make sense of the various concepts, issues, and projects you'll encounter during Badge Summit sessions. After this interactive workshop, you'll be ready to dive in to all the great learning and collaboration the Summit offers.

Speakers

Robert Bajor

Founder, Micro-credential Multiverse

Greetings! I'm Robert Bajor, the proud founder of Micro-credential Multiverse, a pioneering strategic advising and consulting firm that bridges the gap between learning experiences and career opportunities. With over a decade of experience in micro-credentialing, we've been instrumental... Read More →

Elizabeth Miller

Regional Director, Canvas Credentials, Instructure

Elizabeth is a former teacher with over 20 years experience in educational technology serving K12, Higher Ed, Trade and Professional Associations, and Corporations of all sizes. As a program manager, trainer, author, and team leader, Elizabeth has guided hundreds of prospects to delightful... Read More →

Monday July 24, 2023 8:30am - 10:30am MDT
UMC Room 235

Workshop, In Person

8:30am MDT

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP: Badge, Pitch, and Plan: Design a Digital Credentialing Strategy

Attend a design workshop with Education Design Lab, where you’ll design a digital badge, a pitch, and an implementation plan for launching your own micro-credentialing strategy. Micro-credentials are gaining traction as an effective, learner-centered response to the inequities inherent in the learn-and-work ecosystem. Come engage in design thinking, taking this critical first step toward preparing your (l)earners for the future of work.

Speakers

Matthew Aranda

Associate Education Designer, Education Design Lab - Washington, DC

Matthew Aranda is an Associate Education Designer who supports the Lab’s Digital Transformation team in a plethora of initiatives. His scope of work includes a focus on skills visibility and documentation. He supports partners in the implementation of the Lab's 21st century skill... Read More →

Casey Andree

Tara Laughlin

Senior Education Designer, Education Design Lab

Monday July 24, 2023 8:30am - 11:30am MDT
CASE - Center for Teaching and Learning

Workshop, In Person

Audience Engaged

8:30am MDT

PRE-CONFERENCE | Converging Roles: Credential Innovation for Collaborating Across Campus and Beyond

Description: Higher education is facing a growing demand for alternative pathways to careers and stackable learning options that capture, recognize, and validate learning outcomes. At the same time as we find ourselves presented with generational opportunities to service this demand, our internal silos of production pose one of the greatest challenges to meeting the growing and varied needs of learners. In this highly interactive workshop, we identify missed opportunities for internal collaborations, and ideate and distill the main challenges they face internally at their institutions in terms of advancing credential innovation, and then collaborate on potential solutions and work products. Participants will include representation from registrar offices, continuing and professional education practitioners, experts from digital credential vendors, government agencies, and more. Attendees can expect to take away empathy and appreciation for other campus stakeholders, and new understandings of their own capacities for change and ways in which they can collaborate across campus to augment institutional strategy for innovative credentialing efforts. This workshop will be used to inform the needs and conditions for the future creation and conceptualization of cross-institutional working groups; a true Convergence!

Session slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RBQoWNojdHu0UjzKkHSeoOVBKy9MoMWzlPQtZlijtck/edit?usp=sharing

Speakers

Javier Motta-Mena

Educational Technologist, University of Texas at Austin

I've been immersed in the world of badging for a couple of years now, and I have been part of the grassroots group that helped set up our institution's badging initiative. Within my college, so far we have developed badges for some of our professional development courses and programs... Read More →

Amy Heitzman

Mark McConahay

Sr. Consultant and CLR Coordinator, AACRAO

Melissa Peraino

UPCEA

Monday July 24, 2023 8:30am - 11:30am MDT
UMC Ballroom East

Workshop, In Person

8:30am MDT

Pre-Conference: Open Recognition Unconference

Monday July 24, 2023 8:30am - 11:30am MDT
CASE E422

Workshop, In Person

10:45am MDT

PRE-CONFERENCE | Badges: An Open and Honest Conversation with University Leadership

The presenters will share the impetus behind the development of the first higher education badge program in Kansas. Dr. Muma, President of Wichita State University, and Kim Moore, Director of Workforce, Professional & Community Education, will discuss how badges are part of the University's institutional priorities, support the University's mission and are an instrumental part of the University's Strategic Enrollment Management Plan. They will also share their insight into the opportunities, challenges, and lessons learned during the past eight years and how WSU's badge program continues to evolve.

Speakers

Kimberly Moore

Executive Director for Workforce, Professional & Community Education, Wichita State University

Kimberly Moore, JD, is the Executive Director of Workforce, Professional and Community Education (WPCE) at Wichita State University (WSU). Kimberly has 35 years’ professional experience in developing and coordinating workforce and professional development programming. From July... Read More →

Richard (Rick) Muma

Monday July 24, 2023 10:45am - 11:30am MDT
UMC Room 235

Long Panel, In Person

11:30am MDT

Pre-Conference Snack Break [Please register if attending Monday morning pre-conference workshops]

For those attending Monday morning pre-conference workshops, an optional will be lunch provided. Adding this to your schedule will help us plan catering orders

There are nearby and on-campus lunch options as well for those who prefer.

Monday July 24, 2023 11:30am - 12:30pm MDT

12:30pm MDT

Table Talk - Learner Perspectives on Credentialing Student Workers on Workplace Skills

As a first-generation Latina pursuing a bachelor's in Physics with a minor in Leadership Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, I used to believe that a college title would be the main source of professional development and proof of my skills. However, my work-study job at the Registrar's Office has shown me otherwise. With the introduction of micro-credentials, I now have the opportunity to work on unique projects and earn badges that showcase my skills. This experience has taught me that professional growth requires me to expand my horizons to highlight the complementary nature of both practical experience and formal education.

Speakers

Beyonse Gordillo Jimenez

Enrollment and Services Representative, University of Colorado Boulder

Monday July 24, 2023 12:30pm - 1:45pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Table Talk, In Person

12:30pm MDT

Table Talk: A business model and technologies that support inclusive microcredential design

Recent reports suggest colleges should partner with organizations to co-design & co-value microcredentials. To do this, an institution’s microcredential vision, business model, and technologies must be in alignment with inclusive design. Clarkson University’s nascent microcredentialing program has seen early success designing microcredentials with partners that generate revenue. This session explores the vision, business model, and technologies with which we’re experimenting.

Speakers

Justin Mason

Microcredential Guy, Clarkson University

I would love to chat about open recognition, technologies for heutagogy/self-directed learning, and microcredentials in higher education.

Monday July 24, 2023 12:30pm - 1:45pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Table Talk, In Person

Audience Engaged, Experienced, Geek

12:30pm MDT

Table Talk: A Journey to Badges Begins with Collaboration

This session will share the journey of one undergraduate department that is developing 5-week, 1-hour micro-courses to focus on granular skills and specific competencies graduates need in the workforce. This talk will discuss ways to collaborate within departmental levels and with college leadership to advance (and get buy-in for) this educational endeavor to design for-credit micro-credentials within higher education. We will also highlight how these interdisciplinary courses can be stand-alone credits or stack into a 3-hour credit, which can then be translated into a digital badge with meta-data to showcase skills learned by the student. Ways to bundle these micro-courses so students can design their own additional learning experiences and expand their professional development skills will also be explained. -- LINK for shared file of notes and research on this topic: https://tinyurl.com/BADGE-SUMMIT-CU-COMM

Speakers

Lori Poole

Assistant Teaching Professor, University of Colorado Boulder

Dr. Lori Poole has been an educator for almost two decades, having taught and developed many classes from F2F to online to hybrid. Before her career teaching began, Lori worked in editorial, PR, and non-profit arenas. Currently, she is combining her corporate and classroom experience... Read More →

Monday July 24, 2023 12:30pm - 1:45pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Table Talk, In Person

Audience Engaged, Experienced, Geek, Novice

12:30pm MDT

Table Talk: A Winning LER Formula for Job Seekers

A digital credential ecosystem is emerging with connections between credential issuing, sharing, and consumption platforms forming to provide tangible value to people who have earned digital badges. As the ecosystem continues to grow, and badges become more portable, the promise of badges as "job seeker currency" is being realized. Learn how local economies are forming around the data currency created by badges, and how job seekers are converting their badges into jobs.

Speakers

Ian Davidson

Chief Growth Officer, SmartResume - an iDatafy company

Ian is the Chief Growth Officer of SmartResume, a digital credential wallet that helps learners generate a next generation resume with embedded verifiable credentials. Ian works to support successful career outcomes for all learners, and specializes in marketplace design to drive... Read More →

Monday July 24, 2023 12:30pm - 1:45pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Table Talk, In Person

Audience Engaged, Experienced, Geek

12:30pm MDT

Table Talk: Affirmative Action, Debt, and SCOTUS Rulings: Finding Equity through Badging

The recent Supreme Court decisions ranging from overturning loan forgiveness to overturning affirmative action extends existing hurdles, particularly for people of color and other populations who are consistently faced with inequitable practices and immense financial burdens to pursue high quality education and career pathways. In this table talk, we’ll debrief the impacts of these rulings and the broader climate around education, equity, and access, and explore the prospects that the badging movement offers to disrupting this harm and creating opportunities for intentional equity-focused design.

Speakers

Meena Naik

Director, Skills First Design, JFFLabs

Meena Naik is an advocate for actualizing a radical future centering a skills-first approach to economic mobility, and partners with organizations and education providers to support the implementation of best practices in skills-first learning and credentialing efforts and associated... Read More →

Monday July 24, 2023 12:30pm - 1:45pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Table Talk, In Person

12:30pm MDT

Table Talk: Architecting User Identity Solutions to De-Identify and Decentralize

We know how important decentralizing identity to users. We know how important it is for a user's information to be owned by them, and when used for measurements or reporting, we know how important it is to the user to have the choice for their data to be anonymized. We want to gather other systems engineers, developers and architects to talk through architecting platforms and user management systems for today, but ensuring scalability for tomorrow.

Speakers

Stef Mills

Senior Technical Product Director, Digital Promise

Victor Ngo

Monday July 24, 2023 12:30pm - 1:45pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Table Talk, In Person

Audience Novice, Engaged, Experienced, Geek

12:30pm MDT

Table Talk: Badge Regens: Smart Credentials, smarter learners.

Musing on the Inconvenient Truth of Learner-centricity and how might we remix emergING technologies and emergENT microcredential frameworks to unleash a regenerative credentialing renaissance! (giving real value to learners, this time)

Speakers

Simone Ravaioli

Director Global Ecosystem and Innovation, Parchment

Serendipity issuer.Building the digital credentials ecosystem through open standards.Open Badges OG.Paladin of the Internet of Education and Ed3Inhabiting the liminal space in between: Education - Work, Digital Credentials - Open Recognition, Web2 - Web3, Credentials - Reputation... Read More →

Monday July 24, 2023 12:30pm - 1:45pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Table Talk, In Person

12:30pm MDT

Table Talk: Badges in your community TODAY

Badge system design often gets caught in just that, design. But the problem is that the audience for most badges is outside of the community. What if we started thinking of badging as a continuing practice that grows alongside our communities, with our community's members as the first audience? With ORCA–Open Recognition Community App–it's possible to recognize the things that matter in your community, starting small, and refining the badge system as you learn how it can work in your practice.

Speakers

Serge Ravet

President, Reconnaître - Open Recognition Alliance

Serge is a founding member and President of Reconnaître—Open Recognition Alliance a not-for profit association dedicated to promoting the goals of the Bologna Open Recognition Declaration. He is also a founding member and President of Bit of Trust, a company created at the ini... Read More →

Nate Otto

Founder, Skybridge Skills

A ten year plus veteran in the digital badges space, lead author of several versions of the Open Badges specification and creator of Badgr, I'm now working on Skybridge Skills and ORCA, projects that prioritize open recognition and immediate usefulness of digital badges within communities... Read More →

Monday July 24, 2023 12:30pm - 1:45pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Table Talk, In Person

Audience Engaged, Experienced, Geek

12:30pm MDT

Table Talk: Building Durability: The Future-Proof Skills for Job Seekers and Employers

While technical abilities are still required for many roles, it is more crucial than ever that individuals be equipped with "durable" skills. These skills can be transferred across domains and contexts, and endure, regardless of technological and sectoral evolution. They can be grouped in broader competencies such as critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration. So, how are durable skills integrated into learning experiences and recognized, creating value for job seekers and employers?

DECK: Building Durability: The Future-Proof Skills for Job Seekers and Employers

Speakers

Kevin Riebau

Dean of Apprenticeship, Emily Griffith Technical College

As the Dean of Apprenticeship at Emily Griffith Technical College - currently the largest apprenticeship provider in Colorado, I provide planning, leadership, oversight and programmatic direction for the college’s apprenticeship programs, including overseeing the more than 4,700... Read More →

Monday July 24, 2023 12:30pm - 1:45pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Table Talk, In Person

Audience Novice, Engaged, Experienced, Geek

12:30pm MDT

Table Talk: Consultant Corner: Digital Credentialing Strategy, Tactics, & Tech

Do you have questions, desire connection, or look to compare notes on digital credentialing strategy, tactics, or tech? WGU is excited to host a collaborative, wide-open Table Talk with no set agenda, topics, or presentation. New to the space and wondering how to get started? Curious what LERs are all about? Interested in how skills might fit into your solution? Come visit a Table Talk where the conversation meets you where you are on your credentialing journey.

Speakers

Brent Capriotti

Sr Consultant, Credentialing Technology & Innovation, WGU

As a member of WGU's innovative Workforce Intelligence & Credential Integrity (WICI) team, I support and advance skill/competency-based education, digital credentialing solutions, learning and employment records, practical interoperability of educational and employment data standards... Read More →

Monday July 24, 2023 12:30pm - 1:45pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Table Talk, In Person

12:30pm MDT

Table Talk: Creating a framework to develop and teach in demand skills to biology majors using the framework of micro credentials and digital badges.

A progress report on our pilot project to develop and offer a suite of biotech skill micro credentials geared toward specific summer research internships. We will share the preliminary results from our 4-week skill up pilot to be offered May 2023 reporting on the student’s ability to master set of skills in a short period of time and any changes in student attitudes because of the experience.

Speakers

Amanda Vines Garrett

Assistant Professor of Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin

My colleague Cynthia LaBrake (attending in person) and I are currently creating badges for laboratory skills for our undergraduate students at UT Austin. This work is in collaboration with our UT Austin colleagues teaching chemistry and biology courses, biotechnology instructors at... Read More →

Karen Browning

Faculty Mentor, The University of Texas at Austin

Cynthia LaBrake

Professor, University of Texas at Austin

I am a professional faculty interested in innovative and evidence based teaching practices. My current interest is using micro credentials to better align curricular goals with outcomes and assessments to help students be better learners and faculty be better teachers. Through... Read More →

Monday July 24, 2023 12:30pm - 1:45pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Table Talk

Audience Experienced, Engaged

12:30pm MDT

Table Talk: Creating Equitable Pathways: Turning Non-Credit Micro Credentials into For-Credit Credentials

How can we create equitable pathways for learners to earn credit for their prior learning? Engage in this session with other professionals working with non-credit programs. Discuss challenges including institutional policies for prior learning assessment, competency alignment, and recognition of skills not reflected in micro credentials. Discover how institutions approach micro credentials and their effectiveness. Join the conversation and share your experiences.

Speakers

Collin Sullivan

Coordinator of Digital Credentialing, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Collin Sullivan is the Coordinator of Digital Credentialing at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), dual reporting to the Vice President of Information Technology and Vice Provost for the Division of Professional Studies. In this role, Collin works with faculty, staff... Read More →

Monday July 24, 2023 12:30pm - 1:45pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Table Talk, In Person

Audience Engaged

12:30pm MDT

Table Talk: Developing microcredentials as a response to English economic and educational policy

In England Universities must respond to a complex policy and regulatory environment. In this talk we discuss Staffordshire University’s approach to developing microcredentials for regional economic growth and to engage learners who might otherwise not access higher education in a region of England with high levels of deprivation and a low supply of higher-level skilled workers. As part of our talk we want to learn from other contexts on developing awareness and incentivising completion.

Speakers

Vanessa Dodd

Annabel Kiernan

Pro Vice Chancellor, Staffordshire University

Monday July 24, 2023 12:30pm - 1:45pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Table Talk, In Person

Audience Engaged

12:30pm MDT

Table Talk: Help Us Break Things - Building Patterns and Anti-Patterns for Micro-Credentialing

What patterns of behavior, change management and design lead to successful micro-credentialing programs? What don’t? Join Drs. Sheryl Grant and Megan Workmon in exploring and exposing the powerful repeatable patterns that lead to success when introducing micro-credentials to your institution. Veteran implementers and newbies are welcome, please come contribute to our research for the benefit of the ecosystem. This effort is powered by the Trusted Learner Network.

Speakers

Kate Giovacchini

Managing Director, TLN, Arizona State University

Kate Giovacchini is a higher education technology leader with a passion for the power of education to change lives and change the world. She has nearly a decade of experience working at Arizona State University where she has spent her time working in the areas of online education... Read More →

Megan Workmon

Learning Experiences Growth Strategy, Arizona State University

Sched will not let me delete my old bio without a replacement, so instead please enjoy these haiku via ChatGPT: Patterns code ballet, Skills dance in wild abandon, Research nerds at play. Strategies take flight, Tech learns to tell jokes just right, Opera of humor. Badging, credentials... Read More →

Sheryl Grant

New Trust Lab

Monday July 24, 2023 12:30pm - 1:45pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Table Talk, In Person

2:15pm MDT

Badge Tank: Matryoshka dolls - what grain size are we recognizing?

How do we connect the disconnected silos of skills data across an institution/organisation? How do we map the evidence of learning achievement to the agreed upon definition of skills and at what level of granularity? More importantly can we make this visible to learners and does this make a difference around transparency in the ecosystem and promote more trust and confidence? Can mapping skills data promote a credential as you go model for recognition of learning?

Speakers

Alistair Oliver

Director, Edalex

For the past 15 years, Al has engaged with senior leaders across all education sectors to assist them in defining suitable educational technology solutions to meet their varying needs. With a career spanning marketing, business development, and account management, Al led the team... Read More →

Margo Griffith

Head Business Development, Edalex

I am uber curious about skills and skills data. I am passionate around enabling social economic and yes even geographic mobility by using skills as the building blocks. To enable this mobility we need to make sure that skills data is both human and machine readable to equip learners... Read More →

Monday July 24, 2023 2:15pm - 3:30pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Badge Tank, In Person

Audience Engaged, Experienced, Geek

2:15pm MDT

Badge Tank: Mind the Gap: Developing a Microcredential Strategy to Empower Students

Much has already been said about traditional transcripts' inability to capture college students' myriad skills and abilities. New solutions including LERs, CLRs, and Digital Wallets offer promising solutions for the long term, but what can be done now to assist students in telling the story of their journey? A microcredential strategy that spotlights the skills, knowledge, and abilities they build within, across, and outside their coursework offers a short-term solution for this challenge.

Speakers

Javier Motta-Mena

Educational Technologist, University of Texas at Austin

Monday July 24, 2023 2:15pm - 3:30pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Badge Tank, In Person

Audience Novice, Engaged

2:15pm MDT

Table Talk - Opportunity Awaits - the Value of Micro Credentials in Career Technical Education

Learn how microcredentials based in CTE are changing the landscape for learners. Microcredentials provide a flexible way to meet learners where they are as they demonstrate skills. From high school to higher education to corrections, each individual has the ability to master defined skills or competencies. As microcredentials are completed, digital badges are issued. Digital badges empower learners to continue on their journey to success - wherever the opportunity awaits.

Speakers

Heather Luchte

Director of Performance Management, Idaho Division of Career Technical Education

Heather Luchte is the Director of Performance Management at the Idaho Division of Career Technical Education. Heather has worked at the division since 2013. She is responsible for collecting performance data, monitoring student outcomes, and performance improvement. Heather also oversees... Read More →

Taylor Stump

Idaho Division of Career Technical Education

Taylor Stump is the SkillStack® and Performance Management Coordinator at the Idaho Division of Career Technical Education where her passions for education and technology can co-exist seamlessly.Taylor plans, coordinates, and provides ongoing education and technical support for SkillStack... Read More →

Monday July 24, 2023 2:15pm - 3:30pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Table Talk, In Person

Audience Novice, Geek, Experienced, Engaged

2:15pm MDT

Table Talk - Using Simulations to Scale the Development and Assessment of Skills

Credentialing of skills is becoming a higher priority as the world of work moves towards skills-based hiring, but assessment presents a challenge - manually assessing these skills (such as soft skills) is complicated and time consuming. Come join a discussion about the role that online simulations can play in automating this process to ensure equitable access to these increasingly valuable credentials. A sample framework will be presented to help guide the discussion.

Speakers

David McCool

President & CEO, Muzzy Lane

Dave McCool is the founder and CEO of Muzzy Lane. Muzzy Lane is addressing the skills gap by allowing institutions to create engaging, skill-based activities and assessments to incorporate into their courses. Students practice solving problems in simulated scenarios and get immediate... Read More →

Monday July 24, 2023 2:15pm - 3:30pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Table Talk, In Person

Audience Engaged, Experienced, Geek, Novice

2:15pm MDT

Table Talk: Enhancing biology undergraduate students’ career skills, competencies, and opportunities through modular, micro-credentialed, research skills training @ The MCDB Skills Center

As careers in science continue to require specific and often niche skills and competencies for entry, we recognize the limited ability of current biology degree programs to offer opportunities for students to gain these skills. Our team has sought to bridge this gap between the science classroom and the careers students seek by building a laboratory skills training course known as The MCDB Skills Center. Here students are offered a long list of skills they have the ability to learn and the freedom to choose which skills they wish to gain. By connecting skills training to validated micro-credentials, students now have access to a space to specifically train themselves for the careers that they seek. For those unsure of their career path, we offer foundational research skills training and the opportunity for students new to science research to engage in independent and supported skills learning. Student feedback has revealed that students are growing in various aspects of their personal, contextual, and relational agency during their engagement with research skills training. We seek to continue developing the Skills Center and collaborating with other instructors here and at other universities to best understand how we can employ micro-credentialed skills training to best enhance student access to high impact science careers.

Speakers

Zachary Hazlett

Graduate Student, Cu Boulder

Monday July 24, 2023 2:15pm - 3:30pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Table Talk, In Person

2:15pm MDT

Table Talk: From CLR to LER: Making Badges & Credentials Actionable

Designed for K-12, higher education, and workforce, the interoperable LifeJourney Toolkit (complete with badge issuance and ingesting capabilities) promotes the user’s ability to move from education to work and from work to education. The LifeJourney Toolkit pairs a comprehensive learner record (CLR) with an AI-powered wallet to provide users with an individual “Opportunity Fit” built from skills acquired, alignment to a user’s chosen pathways, leveling-up experiences available, and curation of real-time job opportunities. The LifeJourney Toolkit tracks data at the granular level, providing individuals and systems alike with data necessary for critical professional and programmatic decisions.

Speakers

Keith Look

VP Education Solutions, Territorium

As a former principal and superintendent in districts as large as Philadelphia and as rural as Appalachia, I have worked with many students who needed more than a traditional transcript to advance along chosen pathways. My work in this field of skills, abilities, and credentials... Read More →

Monday July 24, 2023 2:15pm - 3:30pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Table Talk, In Person

2:15pm MDT

Table Talk: How might Higher Education Credential Frontline and Immigrant Staff for Career Advancement?

It's time for higher education to think differently about career advancement for our frontline and immigrant staff members. The three biggest barriers for career advancement for immigrant workers are their immigration status, English profeciency, and our inability (largely) to evaluate and recognize credentials/licensing from other countries. It's long overdue that we address this issue and micro-credentials offer an exciting opportunity for us to do just that!

Speakers

Kelsey Draper

Employee Development Program Manager, CU Boulder, Department of Infrastructure & Sustainability

Monday July 24, 2023 2:15pm - 3:30pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Table Talk, In Person

2:15pm MDT

Table Talk: Make Digital Credentials Work for Learners

Digital credentials won’t make much of an impact if no one outside of the awarding agency knows what the credential means. There are ways to design your credentials so that not only will your learners have a better understanding of their skills, but so will outside organizations. We’ll discuss the technical advances in digital credentials that make it easier for institutions to award credit, learners to curate their achievements, and employers to find great matches for what they need.

Speakers

Rob Coyle

Digital Credentials Program Manager, 1EdTech

Rob is the Technical Program Manager for Digital Credentials at 1EdTech, specifically working with the Open Badge and Comprehensive Learner Record standards and connected ecosystem. Rob has over two decades of education and edtech experience working in K-12 and Higher Education, as... Read More →

Monday July 24, 2023 2:15pm - 3:30pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Table Talk, In Person

2:15pm MDT

Table Talk: Microcredential Developer OER

I will show the Microcredential Developer OER, which is a collection of open educational resources to give higher ed stakeholders, e.g., faculty, students, and administrators, a guided process, based on ADDIE design model, for proposing, designing, and developing co-curricular microcredentials. It includes two Moodle course shell files: a microcredential course template and a Microcredential Developer Course. It also includes forms and a QA review checklist.

Speakers

Justin Mason

Microcredential Guy, Clarkson University

I would love to chat about open recognition, technologies for heutagogy/self-directed learning, and microcredentials in higher education.

Monday July 24, 2023 2:15pm - 3:30pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Table Talk, In Person

Audience Novice, Engaged

2:15pm MDT

Table Talk: Promises and Pitfall in badging K12 students

The promise of digital credentials for K12 students offers hopes for truly transformative changes in education. Badges can facilitate personalized learning, competency based learning, project based learning, visualized academic and career pathways....but there are many hurdles still facing comprehensive deployments. Perhaps the largest is the lack of a developed ecosystem that recognizes the currency of digital credentials. There are also privacy issues that need careful consideration.

Speakers

Rich Copeland

Supervisor of Teacher Quality, GaDOE

Rich Copeland is the Supervisor of Teacher Quality for Georgia Virtual, a program at the Georgia Department of Education. Rich has worked in education for over 20 years. He taught high school English for 14 years in the public schools of Savannah, Georgia. He also has taught as an... Read More →

Monday July 24, 2023 2:15pm - 3:30pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Table Talk, In Person

Audience Experienced

2:15pm MDT

Table Talk: Rules? We don't need no rules! Understanding how external regulations and requirements may impact your micro-credentials

Expanded guidance from the Department of Education as well as new policy changes with NC-SARA may require you and your institution to realign your alternative credential offerings with "main campus" policies. In this session we'll talk about when you will need to know this and how to manage this while still delivering the flexible education you have designed.

Speakers

Erika Swain

Assistant Director for Compliance and Authorization, University of Colorado Boulder

Monday July 24, 2023 2:15pm - 3:30pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Table Talk, In Person

Audience Novice, Engaged, Experienced, Geek

2:15pm MDT

Table Talk: The Big Questions that Need Answers for your Badging Program

Speakers

Elizabeth Miller

Regional Director, Canvas Credentials, Instructure

Monday July 24, 2023 2:15pm - 3:30pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Table Talk, In Person

2:15pm MDT

Table Talk: Transforming Visa Rejection Rates: Innovative Solutions for Authenticating International Student Credentials

Visa rejection rates for international students have witnessed a significant increase in countries such as the US, Canada, Australia, and Germany, leading to growing concerns among immigration departments. This talk aims to explore the root causes behind this issue while shedding light on ineffective approaches that have been implemented thus far. Furthermore, it advocates for transformative solutions that involve the issuance of digital credentials by governments and institutions, as well as the verification of credentials directly from the source by admissions teams.

Speakers

Joseph Robb

Director of Marketing, Veri Once

Monday July 24, 2023 2:15pm - 3:30pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Table Talk, In Person

2:15pm MDT

Table Talk: Web3 is Dead; Long Live Web3: What We Can Learn from the Culture and Cringe of Crypto

The emergence of "Web3" technology has led many to reconsider nearly all aspects of our digital lives, including education. From DAOs to DeFi to Digital Trust -- join this Table Talk to dig into the details of this nascent industry. We invite collaborative exploration into the power and perils of the Web3 renaissance.

Speakers

Taylor Kendal

President, Learning Economy Foundation

I'm a CO native, aspiring digital nomad, novelty junkie, ETHDenver steward, and President of Learning Economy Foundation (LEF) focused on equitable social impact, Web3, DAOs, digital identity/privacy, exploring the future of education and digital trust, and occasionally writing (and... Read More →

Allison Moran

Project Manager, Learning Economy Foundation

Monday July 24, 2023 2:15pm - 3:30pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Table Talk, In Person

Audience Novice, Engaged, Experienced, Geek

3:45pm MDT

Badgesplaining: Open Recognition is for Everyone

Open Recognition creates a more equitable and inclusive system of recognizing skills, behaviors and knowledge. It promotes transparency, trust, and decentralization. This talk explores how Open Recognition can impact community and contribute to human flourishing. Using an example of our intern-turned-collaborator, whose five month study aboard experience is represented on LinkedIn as a single line of text, we show how Open Recognition can paint a richer picture of experiences and growth.

Speakers

Doug Belshaw

Co-founder, We Are Open Co-op

Hello! I'm Doug Belshaw. You might know me as someone who's spent a lot of time thinking and promoting ideas around digital literacies (the subject of my doctoral thesis) and Open Badges (I was on the original Mozilla team). These days, I work with my We Are Open Co-op colleagues... Read More →

Laura Hilliger

Co-Founder, We Are Open Co-op

Laura Hilliger is a writer, educator and technologist. She’s a multimedia designer and developer, a technical liaison, a project manager, a conceptual architect, an open advocate who is happiest in collaborative environments. In 2020, she was awarded the Women in IT Digital Leader... Read More →

Monday July 24, 2023 3:45pm - 3:45pm MDT

Badgesplaining, In Person

Audience Novice, Engaged, Experienced, Geek

3:45pm MDT

Opening Plenary and Keynote with Dr. Michael Torrence

Monday July 24, 2023 3:45pm - 5:00pm MDT
CASE - Chancellor's Auditorium

5:00pm MDT

Monday Evening Welcome Reception

Following the opening Plenary, please join us under the tent in front of the UMC for a welcome reception. There will be heavy appetizers, wine and beer.

Please note that University policy requires a guest list and that the Welcome Reception is exclusively for conference attendees. Please contact conference organizers with any questions.

Monday July 24, 2023 5:00pm - 6:45pm MDT

8:00am MDT

Continental Breakfast

Tuesday July 25, 2023 8:00am - 8:45am MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

8:45am MDT

Rapid Fire: A New Paradigm of Proof

Join Dr. Kerri Lemoie on an exploration of the phenomena of verifiable digital credentials in education through the lens of the Laws of Media to examine what this technology enhances, eliminates, restores, and could evolve into. This discussion will explain the technology, demonstrate how it is being used, consider how it is being applied in learning and employment contexts, and reveal why this technology is so different from the badges we’ve known for the last decade.

Speakers

Kerri Lemoie

Director of Technology, MIT, DIgital Credentials Consortium

Tuesday July 25, 2023 8:45am - 9:15am MDT
UMC Room 235

Rapid Fire, In Person

Audience Engaged, Experienced, Geek

8:45am MDT

Rapid Fire: Demystifying Digital Badges: Real World Applications for Professional and Continuing Education

California State University Dominguez Hills College of Continuing and Professional Education pioneered the use of digital credentials and badging in 2018. Badges are awarded to students completing non-credit training programs for workforce development, upskilling and reskilling. This includes OSHA courses, project management, and human resource development among others. This presentation explores lessons learned on how badges are used as vessels of information.

Speakers

J. Kim McNutt

Dean. College of Continuing and Professional Education, California State University, Dominguez Hills

30-year career in professional and continuing education. Self-support PACE units like the College of Continuing and Professional Education at CSUDH are the future of higher education, sitting at the intersection of students/employers/higher education. Pioneered badging and digital... Read More →

Tuesday July 25, 2023 8:45am - 9:15am MDT
UMC Aspen Rooms 285-287

Rapid Fire, In Person

Audience Engaged

8:45am MDT

Rapid Fire: Governance: Badging without Chaos

Join the Canvas Credentials team [Katie Cullen, Joanna Ray, Elizabeth Miller] to discuss the governance policies that can ensure a rich, robust, highly impactful digital credentialing program, sans chaos. We'll look at the big questions you should be asking yourself (Who should I badge? How? Why would we ever do such a thing? What controls should we put in place? What policies should we develop? How will we message out to our various stakeholders?) and at the answers your peer schools have developed. We'll bring our deep experience with higher education and badging; you'll bring your own big questions and concerns. Together we'll explore practical solutions.

https://vimeo.com/854401343/c238688212?share=copy

Speakers

Katie Cullen

Regional Director, Canvas Credentials, Instructure

Katie has spent the last 13 years in higher education, most recently working with the Digital Badging Strategy for Southern New Hampshire University. Prior to that time, her career focus was in the Professional Development and training industry. A year ago, Katie transitioned to Instructure... Read More →

Elizabeth Miller

Regional Director, Canvas Credentials, Instructure

Joanna Ray

Tuesday July 25, 2023 8:45am - 9:15am MDT
CASE E422

Rapid Fire, In Person

8:45am MDT

Rapid Fire: Governance: Badging without Chaos

Speakers

Elizabeth Miller

Regional Director, Canvas Credentials, Instructure

Katie Cullen

Regional Director, Canvas Credentials, Instructure

Joanna Ray

Tuesday July 25, 2023 8:45am - 9:15am MDT
CASE E422

Rapid Fire, In Person

8:45am MDT

Rapid Fire: Let's badge Normandy: towards a learning territory

A true participatory and territorial laboratory of Open Recognition, "Let’s badge Normandy" has largely inspired many other collectives. This session will present the results of 5 years of experience in the use of Open Badges for employability, social inclusion and transitions (digital, educational, agroecological)
Through concrete examples this session will demonstrate that Open Badges associated with open recognition practices can contribute to the tangible creation of a learning territory.

Speakers

Philippe Petitqueux

Secretary General, Reconnaitre - Open Recognition Alliance

After 10 years as a teacher/trainer in the field of digital technology and education, I hold the position of regional delegate for digital technology and pedagogical innovation for Normandy's agricultural teaching establishments since October 2010. I contribute to a project in Normandy... Read More →

Tuesday July 25, 2023 8:45am - 9:15am MDT
UMC Ballroom East

Rapid Fire, In Person

Audience Engaged, Experienced, Novice

8:45am MDT

Rapid Fire: Small Badges, Big Impact: The Success of Industreet's Micro-Credential Use Case

Industreet's 100% free training program offers personalized, practice-based learning to young people aged 18 to 30 who may have been excluded from traditional educational pathways. Learners can demonstrate their skills and knowledge using stackable micro-credentials from Industreet, helping to validate their skills and knowledge. Our session will explore how this unique pedagogical approach promotes soft skills learning and achievement.

Speakers

Alan Bahia

Commercial Director, BCdiploma.com

Marie-Laetitia Brunet

CMO, BCdiploma

Come talk to me if you're interested in discussing the next big thing in education technology, blockchain's role in credentialing, or simply the best culinary experiences around the world! As a staunch believer in innovation and good food, I assure you our conversation will be enriching... Read More →

Tuesday July 25, 2023 8:45am - 9:15am MDT
UMC Room 247

Rapid Fire, In Person

Audience Engaged, Experienced, Geek, Novice

8:45am MDT

Rapid Fire: The Role of Badges in Customized Corporate Workforce Training

The need for credentialing customized corporate training has recently arisen in the Colorado Community College System’s workforce development programming. Badges benefit this type of curriculum and recognize skill proficiency achievement in short-term, non-credit training. This session will discuss challenges and successes of badge adoption with System colleges and employer partners and implementation of System-wide badge evaluation consistency, brand standards, governance, and meta data.

Speakers

Kendra Rodriguez

Skill Advance Colorado Program Director, Colorado Community College System

Tuesday July 25, 2023 8:45am - 9:15am MDT
CASE - Center for Teaching and Learning

Rapid Fire, In Person

Audience Novice, Engaged, Experienced, Geek

9:15am MDT

Networking + Exhibitor Break

Tuesday July 25, 2023 9:15am - 9:45am MDT

9:45am MDT

Dream Makers’ Lounge: Using Badging and Digital Credential for Social Good: Responding to SCOTUS Rulings with Action

Recognizing the impact of the latest SCOTUS rulings on the ability for all to access education and learning pathways to effectively gain access equitably and consistently to quality jobs – what’s next? How can we take advantage of incremental learning and recognition to disrupt the systemic hurdles while creating opportunity? What can each of us do from our areas of influence and through the badging movement to respond?

Speakers

Meena Naik

Director, Skills First Design, JFFLabs

Tuesday July 25, 2023 9:45am - 10:15am MDT
UMC Ballroom West

Dream Makers' Lounge, In Person

9:45am MDT

Rapid Fire: Disrupting the Credential Ecosystem with Competency-based Micro-credentials: Building Partnerships in Professional Learning.

This session will focus on insights of Digital Promise's micro-credential implementation practices that institutions can adopt for educator professional development, re-certification, and licensure. We will explore how ASU Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College (MLFTC) has incorporated these micro-credential implementation practices with a partner district to expand the role of micro-credentials as a professional learning pathway for educators. Attendees would walk away with practical ideas and resources for how to structure or enhance competency-based micro-credential implementation applicable to a variety of contexts.

Speakers

Gina Conner

Director of Professional Learning, Arizona State University

Dr. Gina Conner, an experienced educator and leader in higher education, currently serves as faculty and the Director of Professional Learning in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. In her current role, Dr. Conner leads the planning, design, delivery... Read More →

Rita Fennelly-Atkinson

Director Micro-Credentials, Digital Promise

Dr. Rita Fennelly-Atkinson is the Director of Micro-credentials at Digital Promise. She has worked at the intersection of education and technology to create inclusive and accessible learning environments for learners for the past 20 years. As a first-generation LatinX college graduate... Read More →

Marilys Galindo

Project Manager, Micro-credentials, Digital Promise

Dr. Marilys Galindo is the Project Manager for the Micro-Credentials team at Digital Promise. Aside from supporting the research and development of projects, she incorporates diverse, equitable, and inclusive practices into her work. Prior to joining Digital Promise, she developed... Read More →

Tuesday July 25, 2023 9:45am - 10:15am MDT
UMC Room 235

Rapid Fire, In Person

Audience Novice, Experienced, Engaged, Geek

9:45am MDT

Rapid Fire: How an Institution-Level Badge can Optimize Human-Centered Design Capacity

Education Design Lab’s (Lab) micro-pathway design badge is an organizational level credential. This badge drives sustainable, scalable transformation. The credential facilitates the design process through organizational agency to self-pace coupled with synchronous coaching sessions, all while maintaining a laser focus on the (l)earner. This session will describe the creation process and discuss considerations for developing similar badges driving widespread innovation in higher education.

Speakers

Rachel Kahn

Deputy Director, CCGE, Education Design Lab

Sabina Sariyska

Instructional Designer, Education Design Lab

Tuesday July 25, 2023 9:45am - 10:15am MDT
CASE - Center for Teaching and Learning

Rapid Fire, In Person

9:45am MDT

Rapid Fire: Open Recognition for Retention

Recognition can serve as a protective factor against the negative experiences that underrepresented minority students may face, such as stereotype threat and lack of representation. When students feel recognized for their contributions and achievements, they are more likely to engage in academic and social activities, which in turn leads to increased retention rates. Recognition can serve as a catalyst for student engagement, creating a positive feedback loop that supports persistence.

Speakers

Krystal Rawls

Designer & Director, Workforce Integration Network, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Badging programs offer several social benefits to the communities they serve. These benefits include increased opportunities for networking and collaboration, an increased sense of community and belonging, and improved communication skills. Credentialing and badging programs can also... Read More →

Tuesday July 25, 2023 9:45am - 10:15am MDT
CASE E422

Rapid Fire, In Person

Audience Novice, Engaged, Experienced

9:45am MDT

Rapid Fire: Recognizing Progressive Durable Skills Attainment in Real-Time - Pipe Dream or Possibility?

Skills progress over time, but how do we digitally recognise progression? Progression is often seen as a curriculum roadmap to support instructional planning.
Digital Credentials can support this model of progression towards mastery, but how can this be represented without issuing a confusing number of immutable badges?

Speakers

Alistair Oliver

Director, Edalex

Margo Griffith

Head Business Development, Edalex

Tuesday July 25, 2023 9:45am - 10:15am MDT
UMC Room 247

Rapid Fire, In Person

Audience Experienced

9:45am MDT

Rapid Fire: What Next? Lingering Questions for Higher Ed Professionals

After hearing about the different aspects and various benefits of micro-credential programs over the past day and a half, what additional ideas or questions remain about launching or expanding a micro-credential initiative?? This facilitated roundtable session is geared toward professionals in higher education who will take lessons learned back to their campuses to contribute to these discussions and efforts. Participants will share thoughts, brainstorm ideas, and ask questions about the many nuances of building a successful micro-credential and badging program.

Speakers

Kristi Wold-McCormick

Assistant Vice Provost and University Registrar, University of Colorado Boulder

Tuesday July 25, 2023 9:45am - 10:15am MDT
UMC Aspen Rooms 285-287

Rapid Fire, In Person

10:15am MDT

Networking + Exhibitor Break

Tuesday July 25, 2023 10:15am - 10:45am MDT

10:45am MDT

Badge Tank: Help the Helpers! Kempe JEDI Badge: Fostering Inclusive and Equitable Learning Environments for Educators, Researchers, Healthcare Providers, and Child Welfare Professionals

Implementing and addressing issues of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) in education can be challenging and complex. The Kempe JEDI badges will foster a culture of inclusion and equity in education to support educators, researchers, healthcare providers, mental health providers, advocates, and child welfare professionals who are committed to implementing JEDI principles in prevention & treatment of child abuse and neglect and trauma; and visibly recognize service professionals that have made significant impact on children, families, and communities.

Kempe JEDI Badge - Credly

Speakers

Jing Yu

Learning Design Manager, The Kempe Center

Tuesday July 25, 2023 10:45am - 11:15am MDT
UMC Room 247

Badge Tank, In Person

Audience Novice, Engaged, Experienced

10:45am MDT

Rapid Fire: Black Girl Ventures: Powering Entrepreneurship

Black Girl Ventures Foundation is dedicated to creating access to social and financial capital for Black and Brown women-identifying founders and entrepreneurs. BGV has developed a leadership fellowship with micro-credentials and verifiable credentials, pitch program, and mentorship for HBCU students and graduates. The rapid fire session will focus on the Change Agent Fellowship’s Jetpack for Leaders curriculum is a robust virtual skills development program facilitated by industry leaders.

Speakers

Jasmine Edwards

Julie Keane

Tuesday July 25, 2023 10:45am - 11:15am MDT
CASE E422

Rapid Fire, In Person

Audience Novice, Engaged, Experienced, Geek

10:45am MDT

Rapid Fire: Building a sustainable digital badge initiative

A digital badge initiative can be daunting, involving multiple stakeholders, policies and procedures, all while a significant change management process takes place. The Interamerican Development Bank has grown its initiative exponentially. We will discuss our lessons learned through key milestones: Decision-making in favor of innovation; Defining operational processes and governance structure; Developing a digital credential framework; Implementing a clear and effective communications strategy.

Speakers

Stella Porto

Learning & Knowledge Management Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank

Stella Porto is a Learning and Knowledge Management specialist at the Institute for Economic and Social Development (INDES) in the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington, DC. Prior to IDB, Stella was the Program Director of the Master of Distance Education & E-Learning... Read More →

Romina Flores

Tuesday July 25, 2023 10:45am - 11:15am MDT
UMC Aspen Rooms 285-287

Rapid Fire, In Person

Audience Engaged

10:45am MDT

Rapid Fire: Chasing Chaos - Letting Innovation Breathe while Standardizing for Scale

As the Skills Lab celebrated its one year in existence momentum and activity around micro-credentials was at a fever pitch throughout a very large community college district. Leaders of the micro-credentialing strategy will describe the chaos that ensued while innovation was diffusing rapidly. Some successes and opportunities for improvement will be shared including a focused and funded effort to create a micro-credentials procedure guide.

Speakers

Luke Dowden

Chief Online Learning Officer, Alamo Colleges District

Amber O'Casey

Online Learning Coordinator, Alamo Colleges District

As an Online Learning Coordinator, Amber O’Casey serves as a project manager, consultant, and subject matter expert for developing and scaling micro-credentials across the Alamo Colleges District and its five independently accredited colleges: Northeast Lakeview College, Northwest... Read More →

Tuesday July 25, 2023 10:45am - 11:15am MDT
UMC Ballroom East

Rapid Fire, In Person

Audience Engaged, Experienced

10:45am MDT

Rapid Fire: Poking Fun, Poking Holes From All Sides: What value do credentials really hold in today's workforce economy?

What's the actual street cred of credentials? How are credentials being applied in the job search, the career shift, and the employer's world? Do job seekers really need them when they can be self-taught? Do hiring managers value some types of credentials over others and how is this landscape changing? What is considered a credible skill or credential issuer? In this session, we'll revisit our our own learning journeys, taking note of learning spikes, and thinking critically about where credentials have played a part/could have played a part/the meaning(or lack of meaning) they hold for job seekers, hiring managers, learning designers, and companies/employers.

Speakers

Ian Davidson

Chief Growth Officer, SmartResume - an iDatafy company

Rebecca Leder

Founder, Curriculum Designer, Trainer, Author of KNOCK, Opportunities Knock, LLC

I sit at the convergence of job seekers and career crafters, and hiring managers, talent, and learning & development leaders. I support the career journey from student to job seeker, to career grower, and lifelong learner. I'm the bestselling author of the career development book... Read More →

Ruby Mohamed

Learning Experience Designer

Teach dentists how to use a drill in a root canal procedure? I can do that. Develop instructional aids of yoga poses for skiers? I can do that too. It’s all about the individual and their needs. I work with individuals and organizations to design performance solutions that draw... Read More →

Tuesday July 25, 2023 10:45am - 11:15am MDT
CASE E390: Center for Teaching and Learning

Rapid Fire, In Person

10:45am MDT

Rapid Fire: Stackable Credential Pathways--A Statewide Initiative

Senate Bill 22-192 mandates Colorado Department of Higher Education to build stackable credential pathways in 5 high value industries by 1/1/25. Come learn what this all means and join the discussion on 1) how we can build equitable access to pathways that include incremental credentials validated by industry and recognized by institutions of higher education and 2) how transparent description of embedded credential competencies allows for more efficient evaluation of credit for prior learning.

Speakers

Ruthanne Orihuela

Director of Credential Pathways & Prior Learning Initiatives, Colorado Department of Higher Education

Tuesday July 25, 2023 10:45am - 11:15am MDT
UMC Room 235

Rapid Fire, In Person

Audience Novice, Engaged, Experienced, Geek

10:45am MDT

Rapid Fire: The Navajo Talent Marketplace: Transforming Economic Mobility and Self-Determination

Working with the guidance and support of Navajo leaders and tribal agencies, the Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN) and Aspire Ability Inc. today announce an initiative to develop The Navajo Nation Talent Marketplace, a unique ecosystem of Navajo job seekers, employers, and education providers. For the first time ever, the Navajo Nation will have a central repository of all the jobs available on the reservation both in-person and remotely. The new marketplace identifies the job skills required, and offers postsecondary programs aligned to employer needs.

Speakers

Jon Mott

Founder, Aspire Ability

Tuesday July 25, 2023 10:45am - 11:15am MDT
UMC Room 245

Rapid Fire, In Person

11:15am MDT

Lunch + Badgesplaining + Plenary: Putting Badges to Work

Putting Badges to Work
Since the launch of the initial Mozilla open badge standard in 2012, we have seen a steady increase in the issuance of badges. In addition, the technology supporting badges has continued to evolve, including with the latest release of open badge 3.0 standard by 1EdTech. The idea of badging clearly had impact, but their value is still lost on many. During this plenary session, experts from government, post-secondary, philanthropy, and business will discuss how badges and other forms of digital records are bringing value in the current market and what further unlocks are possible moving forward.

Speakers

Chip Bobbert

Sean R. Gallagher

Executive Professor of Educational Policy, Northeastern University

Lydia Logan

Sean Murphy

Renise Walker

Assistant Director of Systems Innovation, Colorado Workforce Development Council

Assistant Director of Systems Innovation at the Colorado Workforce Development Council. Reimagining Education and work to advance an equitable economy that works for all.

Tuesday July 25, 2023 11:15am - 12:45pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

11:45am MDT

Badgesplaining: The Secret to Unlocking the Power of Credentials: Universal Accessibility

This talk will address a fundamental challenge facing issuers and wallet/holder apps: how to make credentials globally transferrable, so that goals for equity and access are realized. People no longer live, study, and work in isolated places—they cross sectors, geographies, and numerous boundaries. The disparate nature of current credentialing ecosystems undermines promises of utility and access. This talk will explain how 5-layer interoperability and decentralized governance are the solution.

Speakers

Naomi Szekeres

Tuesday July 25, 2023 11:45am - 12:00pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Badgesplaining, In Person

1:00pm MDT

Deep Dive: Putting badges into action with Open Badge Passport

In Open Badge Passport badges are used as connectors. Along with the personal and community layers of the Passport, we have recently developed an institutional level called space. In spaces organization can scaffold learning journeys with badges and visual pathways called MiniMaps. Our presentation aims to show how in OBP badge holders and organizations put their badges into action. We will present different use cases, among others, the Edupass where 40 schools of Luxembourg use the spaces for the national digital sciences project.

Speakers

Eric Rousselle

CEO, Open Badge Factory LTD

Throughout my career, as a CEO, team leader, and developer of innovative online e-learning services, I have witnessed the profound impact that education and continuous learning can have on individuals and their professional journeys. I firmly believe that learning is a lifelong... Read More →

Tuesday July 25, 2023 1:00pm - 1:45pm MDT
UMC Ballroom East

Deep-Dive Interactive, In Person

Audience Engaged, Experienced, Geek, Novice

1:00pm MDT

Deep Dive: Transforming Ideas into Experiences: The Definitive Micro-Credential Workshop

Feedback Survey

Transform your ideas into meaningful micro-credential experiences with Robert Bajor of Micro-credential Multiverse at the 2023 Badge Summit. During this session, you will learn how to apply the Micro-credential Multiverse Skills Continuum to create an impactful micro-credential ecosystem framework for your organization that includes strategic documentation, a tangible approach to skill-based alignment, a scalable micro-credential framework, and a coherent approach to stackable pathways.

Join the Micro-credential Revolution with Robert Bajor
Immerse yourself in the world of micro-credentials with Robert Bajor, the Founder and CEO of Micro-credential Multiverse, at the 2023 Badge Summit. With a decade of industry-leading experience, Robert has been at the forefront of creating some of the world's most effective micro-credential ecosystems.
What You'll Learn
In this session, we'll unpack everything you'll need to know to get started in this exciting and evolving space. You'll also discover how to apply the Micro-credential Multiverse Skills Continuum to create a powerful micro-credential ecosystem for your organization. This comprehensive approach includes:

Strategic Documentation: How to embed your micro-credential ecosystem strategy in your organization's mission and goals.
Skill-Based Alignment: Ensure your micro-credentials are relevant and valuable to learners and industry stakeholders.
Scalable Micro-credential Framework: Allow for growth and adaptation with a scalable micro-credential framework personalized to your needs.
Stackable Pathways: Provide a clear progression for learners with coherent pathways that unite learning experiences with tangible career outcomes.

Learn More about Micro-credential Multiverse: CORE
Need help bringing your vision into focus? During the session we will debut "Micro-credential Multiverse: CORE" - a comprehensive professional development program designed to help organizations build a robust micro-credential ecosystem. The session is based on our effecive program, which is divided into four chapters:
- Ecosystem Strategy
- Skills Strategy
- Micro-credential Framework, and
- Learning Pathway Strategy.

Each chapter is punctuated by guiding questions and activities that yield actionable deliverables towards the final product of each chapter. This program is a proven strategy to develop high-quality ecosystems, and it's tailored to cater to the unique needs of clients and their communities of learners.

Speakers

Robert Bajor

Founder, Micro-credential Multiverse

Tuesday July 25, 2023 1:00pm - 1:45pm MDT
CASE E390: Center for Teaching and Learning

Deep-Dive Interactive, In Person

Audience Engaged, Experienced, Geek, Novice

1:00pm MDT

Deep Dive: We Can Work it Out: An Inclusive Process for Establishing Microcredential Programs at One Institution

Over the 2022-2023 academic year, the University of Colorado Denver began an ambitious effort. Its goals were to provide organizing principles and guidance for their microcredential programs as well as develop infrastructure to support a new badging platform. This presentation will share the steps taken to create an inclusive process for moving the campus forward together to meet the current needs of the institution while also setting the groundwork for the future.

Speakers

Jason Drysdale

Katie Linder

Jeremy Lingle

Director of Microcredentials, University of Colorado Denver

Tuesday July 25, 2023 1:00pm - 1:45pm MDT
CASE E422

Deep-Dive Interactive, In Person

Audience Engaged, Experienced, Geek

1:00pm MDT

Deep Dive: You Got This! Using pre-made blueprints to create bespoke programs

Learn about design patterns (pre-made blueprints) for building digital credentialing programs in higher ed. Our design patterns are general, reusable, typical solutions to common patterns that exist when implementing micro-credentialing programs on campus. Powered by the Trusted Learner Network at Arizona State University, this initiative is an accelerant for implementing digital credentialing programs in complex higher ed environments.

Speakers

Sheryl Grant

New Trust Lab

Tuesday July 25, 2023 1:00pm - 1:45pm MDT
UMC Room 247

Deep-Dive Interactive, In Person

1:00pm MDT

Dream Makers' Lounge: What Employers Look For in a Digital Credential

How do we make digital credentials that employers will actually pay attention to, and one they know they can trust? What skills do employers need to see, and how can digital credentials improve the hiring process for everyone involved? We’ll share insights, ideas and ongoing challenges to advance the shared understanding of what creates quality and trust in microcredentials for skills-based hiring and upskilling.

Speakers

Luke Dowden

Chief Online Learning Officer, Alamo Colleges District

Tyson Heath

Director, Credential Integrity, Western Governors University

Tyson Heath serves as the Director of Credential Integrity at Western Governors University (WGU). Before his current role, Tyson served the university as the Senior Manager for University Compliance and Title IX. In his current position, Tyson is responsible for collaborating across... Read More →

Kelly Hoyland

Director of Higher Education Programs, 1EdTech

Tuesday July 25, 2023 1:00pm - 1:45pm MDT
UMC Ballroom West

Dream Makers' Lounge, In Person

Audience Novice, Engaged, Experienced

1:00pm MDT

Long Panel: 21st Century Skills Through Micro-Credentialing: The Polk County Partnership

Polk County Public Schools piloted an innovative program, Propel Polk!, in response to local business needs, enhancing student competitive value in the job search process. Students enrolled in select career academies earned Critical Thinking, Initiative, and Oral Communication micro-credentials offered by Education Design Lab. Instrumental to this program are the county-wide organizations of Polk Vision, Central Florida Development Council, and Polk County’s Board of County Commissioners.

Speakers

Matthew Aranda

Associate Education Designer, Education Design Lab - Washington, DC

Naomi Boyer

Executive Director, Digital Transformation, Education Design Lab

Steve Cochran

Tuesday July 25, 2023 1:00pm - 1:45pm MDT
UMC Room 235

Long Panel, In Person

Audience Novice, Engaged, Experienced

1:00pm MDT

Long Panel: Supporting Open Source, Open-Badge Credentials

Our panelists will discuss the current work our respective organizations are doing to ensure there is a non-profit, open source, OBV3.0 credential option. Digital Promise will discuss how they are supporting micro-credentials that serve historically and systematically excluded learners. The Digital Credentials Consortium, which was founded by a group of higher education institutions, will discuss designing a digital infrastructure for interoperable and verifiable digital credentials.

Speakers

Rita Fennelly-Atkinson

Director Micro-Credentials, Digital Promise

Nichole Aguirre

Badging Coalition Project Director, Digital Promise

Kerri Lemoie

Director of Technology, MIT, DIgital Credentials Consortium

Tuesday July 25, 2023 1:00pm - 1:45pm MDT
UMC Aspen Rooms 285-287

Long Panel, In Person

Audience Novice, Engaged, Experienced, Geek

2:00pm MDT

Deep Dive: Building Bridges with Employers Through Microcredentials: Tips and Tricks for Higher Education to Construct Strong, Sustainable Talent Pipeline Partnerships

How might higher ed teams build capacity to develop and sustain meaningful employer partnerships? The presenters will showcase Alamo Colleges District's dynamic San Antonio relationships. Attendees will discuss competencies to engage industry, using a tool called the T-Profile, and how higher ed leaders must become advocates for systems change (e.g.hiring information systems, learner employment records, and digital wallets). We will share best practices with strategic and tactical insights.

Speakers

Danielle Saunders

Luke Dowden

Chief Online Learning Officer, Alamo Colleges District

Naomi Boyer

Executive Director, Digital Transformation, Education Design Lab

Tuesday July 25, 2023 2:00pm - 2:45pm MDT
UMC Aspen Rooms 285-287

Deep-Dive Interactive, In Person

Audience Novice, Engaged, Experienced

2:00pm MDT

Deep Dive: Using Microcredentials to Change the Student Value Proposition

The implementation of strategic and scaffolded microcredential initiatives have the ability to enhance the ROI of a degree and change the value proposition for students, but an essential part of the process requires institutions to build learning and outcomes intentionally from the ground up. In this session, our approach will be shared in creating a foundational skill infrastructure to support badge and microcredential initiatives and change the student value proposition at scale.

Speakers

Marc Booker

Vice Provost, Strategy, University of Phoenix

With over two decades of experience working with online and distance education students at the post-secondary level in admissions, registrar, and academic administration roles Marc Booker brings a unique perspective on the trends in higher education from a post-traditional student... Read More →

Tuesday July 25, 2023 2:00pm - 2:45pm MDT
UMC Ballroom East

Deep-Dive Interactive, In Person

Audience Engaged, Experienced, Novice

2:00pm MDT

Dream Makers' Lounge: How Might We Collect Accurate Data on the Prevalence of Badges in the United States?

This session will challenge participants to identify strategies for accurately measuring the attainment of badges in the U.S. population – how could we use survey, administrative, crowdsourced, or other sources of data to identify who has badges and analyze patterns of inequality in those who attain badges? How do we differentiate badges associated with other credentials from badges that are the credential? What do we need to do to build an evidence base for the labor market impact of badges?

Speakers

Kyle Albert

Tuesday July 25, 2023 2:00pm - 2:45pm MDT
UMC Ballroom West

Dream Makers' Lounge

Audience Engaged, Experienced, Geek, Novice

2:00pm MDT

Long Panel: Digital Wallets, Verifiable Credentials, and Learning and Employment Records: A Colorado Case Study

As learners seek to tell the full story of their skills, knowledge and experience and demonstrate their readiness for today’s economy, new tools have made it easier to connect learning to employment. Moreover, these tools have the potential to prioritize agency, equity and economic mobility for all learners. Learn about digital learner wallets, Learning and Employment Records (LERs), and Verifiable Credentials (VCs) in this panel and Colorado case study.

Speakers

Marielena DeSanctis

President, Community College of Denver

Taylor Kendal

President, Learning Economy Foundation

Jessica Maiorca

Innovative Financing Consultant, Colorado Workforce Development Council

Audrey Walstrom

UX Designer, Quorum1

I'm interested in continuous education, UX design, data analytics, and economic education

Tuesday July 25, 2023 2:00pm - 2:45pm MDT
CASE E422

Long Panel, In Person

Audience Engaged

2:00pm MDT

Long Panel: Expanding Open Recognition through organizations, communities, and regions

Our panel will showcase real-world examples of Open Recognition systems that promote equity and lifelong learning. Panelists from Normandy, Latin America, Canada, and California will discuss the impact of these systems on professional development, challenges, opportunities, and their potential to create inclusive societies. Join us for an interactive session and explore the future of recognition and lifelong learning.

Speakers

Don Presant

President, Learning Agents, CanCred.ca

Stella Porto

Learning & Knowledge Management Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank

Julie Keane

Krystal Rawls

Designer & Director, Workforce Integration Network, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Philippe Petitqueux

Secretary General, Reconnaitre - Open Recognition Alliance

Tuesday July 25, 2023 2:00pm - 2:45pm MDT
CASE E390: Center for Teaching and Learning

Long Panel, In Person

Audience Novice, Engaged, Experienced, Geek

2:00pm MDT

Long Panel: No More Assumptions: Hard Conversations about Equity

This interactive conversation with a jeopardy style format will pose hard topics to the panelists and audience such as equity, access, democratization, and agency and unpack the underlying assumptions as creators and educators who are building environments and credentialing solutions meant to disrupt systemic challenges. We will lean into asking ourselves, "are we really doing what we think we are doing?"

Speakers

Meena Naik

Director, Skills First Design, JFFLabs

Kelly Page

Founder and CEO, LWYL Studio LLC

Kelly uses the pronouns She/Her. As a social-design ethnographer, Kelly has an obsession with social leadership, learning as a lived experience, and story-centered codesign for the development of learning and employment innovations. She is committed to developing ethical, entrepreneurial... Read More →

Simone Ravaioli

Director Global Ecosystem and Innovation, Parchment

Tuesday July 25, 2023 2:00pm - 2:45pm MDT
UMC Room 235

Long Panel, In Person

Audience Engaged, Experienced

3:00pm MDT

Deep Dive: From Badges and Micro-credentials to CLRs and LERS. How do they all fit together in the Higher Education puzzle?

Digital credentials in Higher Education are expressed in a variety of ways, via a variety of mediums, platforms, and renderings. Unfortunately, every institution uses different terms and definitions. What are the differences? Can badges, Micro-credentials, alternative credentials, CLRs, LERs and traditional credentials all live together? AACRAO asserts that digital credentials, whether traditional or new are essentially the same entity but expressed along different points along a continuum. Using recent survey and focus group data from higher education, this session will explore how HE’s expression of digital credentials and the interconnections between them can be better understood and expressed.

Speakers

Mark McConahay

Sr. Consultant and CLR Coordinator, AACRAO

Mike Simmons

Strategic Partnerships and Business Development, AACRAO

Tuesday July 25, 2023 3:00pm - 3:45pm MDT
CASE E422

Deep-Dive Interactive, In Person

Audience Engaged

3:00pm MDT

Deep Dive: Instructional Design Perspective on Digital Badges

There is a lot to consider when creating a successful badge program, and we want those just getting started to learn from our experience, instead of starting from scratch. We’ll discuss how to identify outcomes, create requirements, the approval process, curriculum development and mapping, accreditation concerns, assessment, faculty development and the learner experience. We’ll share repeatable strategies to develop a program that scales across courses, programs and schools.

Speakers

Sherri Braxton Castanzo

Senior Director for Digital Innovation, Bowdoin College

Kelly Hoyland

Director of Higher Education Programs, 1EdTech

Amber O'Casey

Online Learning Coordinator, Alamo Colleges District

Tuesday July 25, 2023 3:00pm - 3:45pm MDT
UMC Room 235

Deep-Dive Interactive, In Person

Audience Engaged

3:00pm MDT

Dream Makers' Lounge: Badging as a bridge between informal learning and college admissions.

Conducting educational outreach programs for high school and community college students can have a greater impact by credentialing the program in coordination with the university's office of admissions. How can badges alert university admissions to qualified candidates?

Speakers

Annamarie Schaecher

Outreach Specialist, University of Colorado Boulder

Annamarie is an experienced educator with the Education and Outreach team at CU Boulder's Cooperative Institute for Research on Earth Sciences (CIRES). The CIRES E&O team offers many informal learning opportunities for teachers, students and the community. This summer we are piloting... Read More →

Tuesday July 25, 2023 3:00pm - 3:45pm MDT
UMC Ballroom West

Dream Makers' Lounge, In Person

Audience Engaged, Experienced, Geek

3:00pm MDT

Long Panel: Experience You: Learnings from Phase 1

Experience You is an ambitious undertaking endeavoring to generate LERs at scale for individuals that need them most. The initial phase of this work is tightly focused on using AI to structure existing experience data into formats that will provide interoperability and portability across the ecosystem. This panel will share our learnings and reflections, while also exploring applications and thoughts for future phases.

Speakers

Naomi Boyer

Executive Director, Digital Transformation, Education Design Lab

Phil Long

Colin Reynolds

Senior Education Designer, Digital Transformation, Education Design Lab (in collaboration with US Chamber of Commerce Foundation + T3 Network)

Jason Tysko

Tuesday July 25, 2023 3:00pm - 3:45pm MDT
UMC Aspen Rooms 285-287

Long Panel, In Person

Audience Engaged, Experienced, Geek, Novice

3:00pm MDT

Long Panel: Reliably Assessing Essential Competencies at Scale

Reliably credentialing essential competencies (especially those that are difficult to measure objectively like soft skills) is becoming an increasing imperative as the world shifts towards skills-based training and hiring. Direct assessment, peer input, and innovative technology solutions are all paths being walked today. Come participate in a panel discussion on these efforts and help shape what's to come!

Speakers

Kelly Page

Founder and CEO, LWYL Studio LLC

Simone Ravaioli

Director Global Ecosystem and Innovation, Parchment

David McCool

President & CEO, Muzzy Lane

Tuesday July 25, 2023 3:00pm - 3:45pm MDT
CASE E340

Long Panel, In Person

Audience Novice, Engaged, Experienced, Geek

3:00pm MDT

Long Panel: Trust Us: Open Recognition and Micro-credentials as Proof

Pioneers in the field revisit the origins of Open Recognition and micro-credentials, and discuss the evolution, influence, and potential challenges and impact of both. Can micro-credentials and Open Recognition co-exist in the same learning environments? What is the difference between authoritativeness and credibility? Join us to discuss the role of trust in creating a more inclusive, adaptable, and learner-centered environment, whether through Open Recognition, micro-credentials, or both.

Speakers

Doug Belshaw

Co-founder, We Are Open Co-op

Sheryl Grant

New Trust Lab

Tuesday July 25, 2023 3:00pm - 3:45pm MDT
CASE E390: Center for Teaching and Learning

Long Panel, In Person

Audience Engaged, Experienced

3:45pm MDT

Badgesplaining: Promoting Student Success in Higher Education with Digital Badges

This presentation explores the use of digital badges to address two key challenges in higher education: enrollment and student success. Saginaw Valley State University serves as a notable example, having secured a $1.2 million grant from the US Department of Education to recruit and retain rural students in Michigan. We will demonstrate how digital badges are being utilized in this program to motivate and track student progress from admissions to graduation. By implementing badges, students are encouraged to actively engage in educational activities, while institutions gain insights to monitor and enhance success. These badges create an interactive learning environment, rewarding students with tangible achievements and fostering personal growth. Additionally, they provide a comprehensive means to evaluate individual progress, identifying strengths and areas for improvement. The experiences of Saginaw Valley State University showcase the potential of digital badges, promoting inclusivity and meeting specific student needs. This presentation emphasizes the significance of digital badges in higher education, where they serve as powerful tools to motivate students and track their journey toward success. Leveraging badges, institutions can create a supportive atmosphere that enhances student outcomes and fosters continuous growth.

Speakers

Brian Thomas

Associate Provost, Saginaw Valley State University

As Associate Provost, I am a versatile and experienced leader with expertise in overseeing multiple critical offices, committees, and programs. I have a proven track record of success in driving results, ensuring student success, and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion across... Read More →

Tuesday July 25, 2023 3:45pm - 3:45pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Badgesplaining, In Person

Audience Engaged

3:45pm MDT

Badgesplaining: Story Centered Inclusive User Experience (IUX) Co-design: How might we co-design technologies with (not for) learners and earners!

How might we co-design learning and employment technologies --- digital credentials, LERs, digital wallets, learning, HR and recrutment systems --- for the lived experience of learning and work, inclusive of our intersectional identities and multiple pathways?
We start with story, elevating context expertise, and codesigning with the storymakers closest to the experience we are designing a technology or innovation for.
In this talk Kelly will share about story-centerd Inclusive User Experience (IUX) design cultivated in a culture of care for technological and socio-cultural innovation. She’ll share key design principles which guide her work, developed from over 20-years of experience co-designing with (not for) learners and workers, and in partnership with the communities in which they live, learn and work. Drawing from international case studies, Kelly will share tips and advice for codesigning with partners and community, and the emergent protocols necessary for story-centered, impactful and consent-based participatory social design research.

Speakers

Kelly Page

Founder and CEO, LWYL Studio LLC

Tuesday July 25, 2023 3:45pm - 3:45pm MDT
CASE - Chancellor's Auditorium

Badgesplaining, In Person

Audience Novice, Experienced, Engaged

3:45pm MDT

Badgesplaining: This is My Why

It's impossible to do impactful work if you don't have a strong "why". Let me encourage you to articulate your own "why" for badging, by telling the origin story of mine: a kid with lots of skills, but inadequate credentials to represent his knowledge, abilities, and experience. Badges would have made all the difference for him.

Speakers

Elizabeth Miller

Regional Director, Canvas Credentials, Instructure

Tuesday July 25, 2023 3:45pm - 3:45pm MDT
UMC Main Ballroom

Badgesplaining, In Person

Audience Novice

3:45pm MDT

Closing Plenary | Unlocking the Power of Human Talent and Potential: A glimpse into Colorado’s Education and Workforce Transformation

In a rapidly changing economy characterized by globalization, advances in technology, and automation, learners are working to develop the skills needed to keep pace. These changes require our education and training systems to evolve to meet the changing needs of learners while strengthening connections to employers eager for skilled talent.

During this session hosted by the Colorado Workforce Development Council (CWDC), you will learn about the work happening across Colorado to strengthen the connections across education and work, prioritize equity and empower learners with their personal data to navigate the changing world of learning and work. Colorado leaders spotlight efforts to increase data access and transparency, learning and employment records, micro credentialing and skills-based hiring to improve equitable outcomes for learning and work.

Goals:

Raise awareness and urgency around the need for ecosystem collaboration to meet the needs of learners and employers and improve equitable outcomes and connect the dots through work happening in Colorado
Position CWDC’s efforts with Advancing Career Determination project as a component of learner-centered systems transformation
- LERs and digital wallets and their ability to increase individual ownership and control over their record of skills, achievements and credentials and personal data
- Credential transparency
- Talent finance to help people access needed training and upskilling
Stress the focus on skills as common “currency” in the ecosystem, need for credential transparency and need for learners to better articulate the breadth of their skills and talents and more efficiently connect with employers in need of talent

Tuesday July 25, 2023 3:45pm - 5:00pm MDT
CASE - Chancellor's Auditorium

8:00am MDT

Continental Breakfast

Wednesday July 26, 2023 8:00am - 9:00am MDT

9:00am MDT

Post-Conference Workshop: Getting Weird with the Open Recognition Alliance

Join global leaders in digital badging and Open Recognition! Topics to include:

Badge Wiki User Research Clinic
- We aim to help Badge Wiki improve as a tool for knowledge sharing within the Open Recognition ecosystem. The Badge Wiki User Research Clinic is a user research session that will look at experiences using Badge.wiki or another wiki-based knowledge repository. The session will cover the benefits of using a wiki-based knowledge repository, help people learn basic editing skills, and serve as an in-person place to recognise contribution to Badge.Wiki. Partipants can also earn badges!
How can we advance open recognition in the Americas?
- Join us to explore how open recognition communities in the Americas may advance the cause of creating networks of stakeholders committed to recognizing and valuing learning wherever it occurs. In this session, we'll take a “deep dive” into open recognition—what it is, and what potential it offers—by exploring open recognition principles, available resources, and examples of communities and organizations who are working to open recognition to all.
An Open Recognition Tool Kit
- The prompt for this Design Challenge is "How might we create an open recognition tool kit that will help communities and organizations begin to open their recognition practices?" Our design challenge agenda will be: 1) Ideate around what an open recognition tool kit should consist of, e.g., purpose, scope, and mode. 2) Identify existing, openly-licensed resources that can contribute to the tool kit.

Speakers

Don Presant

President, Learning Agents, CanCred.ca

Doug Belshaw

Co-founder, We Are Open Co-op

Julie Keane

Justin Mason

Microcredential Guy, Clarkson University

I would love to chat about open recognition, technologies for heutagogy/self-directed learning, and microcredentials in higher education.

Laura Hilliger

Co-Founder, We Are Open Co-op

Krystal Rawls

Designer & Director, Workforce Integration Network, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Wednesday July 26, 2023 9:00am - 12:00pm MDT
CASE E390: Center for Teaching and Learning

Workshop, In Person

9:00am MDT

Post-Conference Workshop: Now What? Expert Facilitation for YOUR credentialing programs

After two days of learning, sharing, and networking, now is the time to begin dreaming in color with your own recognition and credentialing programing. Whether you (and hopefully your colleagues!) show up with initial inspiration on the back of a napkin or your detailed notes on plans for your institution, this workshop creates the elusive space and dedicated time to actually get started with ideating and planning. Participants will be paired with expert facilitators for consultancies to meet you where you are with their rich experience in implementation and change management.

Wednesday July 26, 2023 9:00am - 12:00pm MDT
CASE E422

Workshop, In Person

9:00am MDT

Post-Conference Workshop: Last Mile to Hire Consumption Convening [*invite-only*]

This exciting post-conference conversation will occur at the Badge Summit at the University of Colorado Boulder on Wednesday, July 26. The Badge Summit has been a focal point for credentialing, and now we're shifting the conversation to how credential “acceptors” such as education providers, employers, Learning & Development, registrars, and others can utilize digital skills and credentials for organizational action to the benefit of those seeking opportunities.

We believe it's crucial to align the efforts of educational providers with the needs of employers. Without employers’ active involvement as “acceptors” of digital credentials, our efforts might fall short. That's why we're bringing issuers and receivers together for this convening of credentials consumers: to challenge and improve the credentialing ecosystem.

Speakers

Naomi Boyer

Executive Director, Digital Transformation, Education Design Lab

Wednesday July 26, 2023 9:00am - 3:00pm MDT
CASE W262

TBA

[ENCORE ON DEMAND] A New Paradigm of Proof

Speakers

Kerri Lemoie

Director of Technology, MIT, DIgital Credentials Consortium

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, In Person

Audience Engaged, Experienced, Geek

TBA

[ENCORE ON DEMAND] Badgesplaining: Promoting Student Success in Higher Education with Digital Badges

Speakers

Brian Thomas

Associate Provost, Saginaw Valley State University

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, In Person

Audience Engaged

TBA

[ENCORE ON DEMAND] Badgesplaining: Story Centered Inclusive User Experience (IUX) Co-design: How might we co-design technologies with (not for) learners and earners!

Speakers

Kelly Page

Founder and CEO, LWYL Studio LLC

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, In Person

Audience Novice, Experienced, Engaged

TBA

[ENCORE ON DEMAND] Badgesplaining: This is My Why

Speakers

Elizabeth Miller

Regional Director, Canvas Credentials, Instructure

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, In Person

Audience Engaged, Experienced, Novice

TBA

[ENCORE ON DEMAND] Closing Plenary | Unlocking the Power of Human Talent and Potential: A glimpse into Colorado’s Education and Workforce Transformation

Raise awareness and urgency around the need for ecosystem collaboration to meet the needs of learners and employers and improve equitable outcomes and connect the dots through work happening in Colorado
Position CWDC’s efforts with Advancing Career Determination project as a component of learner-centered systems transformation
- LERs and digital wallets and their ability to increase individual ownership and control over their record of skills, achievements and credentials and personal data
- Credential transparency
- Talent finance to help people access needed training and upskilling
Stress the focus on skills as common “currency” in the ecosystem, need for credential transparency and need for learners to better articulate the breadth of their skills and talents and more efficiently connect with employers in need of talent
https://vimeo.com/854350218/14e7db5f40?share=copy

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, In Person

Audience Engaged, Experienced, Novice

TBA

[ENCORE ON DEMAND] Digital Wallets, Verifiable Credentials, and Learning and Employment Records: A Colorado Case Study

Speakers

Marielena DeSanctis

President, Community College of Denver

Taylor Kendal

President, Learning Economy Foundation

Jessica Maiorca

Innovative Financing Consultant, Colorado Workforce Development Council

Audrey Walstrom

UX Designer, Quorum1

I'm interested in continuous education, UX design, data analytics, and economic education

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, In Person

Audience Engaged

TBA

[ENCORE ON DEMAND] Disrupting the Credential Ecosystem with Competency-based Micro-credentials: Building Partnerships in Professional Learning

Speakers

Gina Conner

Director of Professional Learning, Arizona State University

Rita Fennelly-Atkinson

Director Micro-Credentials, Digital Promise

Marilys Galindo

Project Manager, Micro-credentials, Digital Promise

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, In Person

Audience Novice, Experienced, Engaged, Geek

TBA

[ENCORE ON DEMAND] From Badges and Micro-credentials to CLRs and LERS. How do they all fit together in the Higher Education puzzle?

Speakers

Mark McConahay

Sr. Consultant and CLR Coordinator, AACRAO

Mike Simmons

Strategic Partnerships and Business Development, AACRAO

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, In Person

Audience Engaged

TBA

[ENCORE ON DEMAND] Governance: Badging without Chaos

Speakers

Katie Cullen

Regional Director, Canvas Credentials, Instructure

Elizabeth Miller

Regional Director, Canvas Credentials, Instructure

Joanna Ray

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, In Person

TBA

[ENCORE ON DEMAND] Instructional Design Perspective on Digital Badges

Speakers

Sherri Braxton Castanzo

Senior Director for Digital Innovation, Bowdoin College

Kelly Hoyland

Director of Higher Education Programs, 1EdTech

Amber O'Casey

Online Learning Coordinator, Alamo Colleges District

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, In Person

Audience Engaged

TBA

[ENCORE ON DEMAND] No More Assumptions: Hard Conversations about Equity

Speakers

Kelly Page

Founder and CEO, LWYL Studio LLC

Meena Naik

Director, Skills First Design, JFFLabs

Simone Ravaioli

Director Global Ecosystem and Innovation, Parchment

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, In Person

Audience Engaged, Experienced

TBA

[ENCORE ON DEMAND] Open Recognition for Retention

Speakers

Krystal Rawls

Designer & Director, Workforce Integration Network, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, In Person

Audience Engaged, Experienced, Geek, Novice

TBA

[ENCORE ON DEMAND] Open Recognition is for Everyone

Speakers

Doug Belshaw

Co-founder, We Are Open Co-op

Laura Hilliger

Co-Founder, We Are Open Co-op

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, In Person

Audience Novice, Engaged, Experienced, Geek

TBA

[ENCORE ON DEMAND] Opening Plenary and Keynote with Dr. Michael Torrence

https://vimeo.com/858710353/2ea2ea06a9?share=copy

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, In Person

TBA

[ENCORE ON DEMAND] Plenary: Putting Badges to Work

Speakers

Sean R. Gallagher

Executive Professor of Educational Policy, Northeastern University

Chip Bobbert

Sean Murphy

Renise Walker

Assistant Director of Systems Innovation, Colorado Workforce Development Council

Assistant Director of Systems Innovation at the Colorado Workforce Development Council. Reimagining Education and work to advance an equitable economy that works for all.

Lydia Logan

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, In Person

Audience Engaged, Experienced, Novice

TBA

[ENCORE ON DEMAND] Stackable Credential Pathways--A Statewide Initiative

Speakers

Ruthanne Orihuela

Director of Credential Pathways & Prior Learning Initiatives, Colorado Department of Higher Education

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, In Person

Audience Novice, Engaged, Experienced, Geek

TBA

[ENCORE ON DEMAND] The Secret to Unlocking the Power of Credentials: Universal Accessibility

Speakers

Naomi Szekeres

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, In Person

TBA

[ENCORE ON DEMAND] We Can Work it Out: An Inclusive Process for Establishing Microcredential Programs at One Institution

Speakers

Jason Drysdale

Katie Linder

Jeremy Lingle

Director of Microcredentials, University of Colorado Denver

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, In Person

Audience Engaged, Experienced, Geek

TBA

[ON DEMAND] Badgesplaining: Badging Power Skills for Active Global Citizenship

Power skills, often referred as "soft skills", are essential for any human working in a multicultural, diverse environment. Whether it is for a job interview, surviving in an international experience, teaching or just being a member of a community, we all need to develop key skills like emotional intelligence, empathy, cultural awareness or notions of power and privilege in a cross-cultural context. Badging power skills is a powerful way to certify that we can all aim to be global citizens

https://vimeo.com/853156502/4caae23025?share=copy

Speakers

Andrés Peñaloza Lanza

Ed Products Coordinator, AFS International

Intercultural and global competencies specialist. Educational products coordinator, content developer and intercultural qualified trainer currently running the Global Up programs at AFS International, mainly the Global Competence Certificate for HEIs and non profits.

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, Virtual

TBA

[ON DEMAND] Badgesplaining: Empowering Pre-Service Teachers with Instructional Open Badges to Enhance Goal-Setting and Self-Efficacy

This quasi-experimental study adopted a control and experimental group research design to investigate the effect of using instructional open badges on learners' goal setting, perceived self-efficacy, and self-regulation in hybrid learning. We found that pre-service teachers who learned with open badges set higher goals and indicated greater self-efficacy than those who learned with traditional projects. No significant difference was found in their self-regulation between the groups.

https://vimeo.com/853164086/35be0767fa?share=copy

Speakers

Zui Cheng

Huanhuan Wang

Rick West

Professor, Instructional Psychology and Technology Department, Brigham Young University

Dr. Richard E. West (@richardewest on twitter) is a professor of Instructional Psychology and Technology at Brigham Young University. He teaches courses in instructional technology, academic research and writing, creativity and innovation, design psychology, and product/program evaluation... Read More →

Qian Xu

Zhuo Zhang

Xixian Zhu

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, Virtual

Audience Engaged, Experienced, Novice

TBA

[ON DEMAND] Badgesplaining: How do you Create a High-Impact Digital Badge Program Fast?

https://vimeo.com/853161230/7c581d082d?share=copy

Speakers

Jim Daniels

David Leaser

Digital Badge Academy

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, Virtual

Audience Engaged

TBA

[ON DEMAND] Badgesplaining: We Can't Afford to Wait for Skills-Based Hiring

Building on my 2022 Badge Summit talk (Why Degrees Need to Go), I will discuss the important topic of why we need rapid and widespread adoption of skills-based hiring. We need a system of third-party credentialing (with schools participating in the process but not as the issuers) in a centralized and formalized system easily understood by employers. We're seeing growing awareness by employers, government and the media that competency-based learning and skills-based hiring are important, but I am concerned that adoption is moving way too slowly, especially given that student loan debt is at $1.7 trillion and counting.

https://vimeo.com/853164224/d5c5f86979?share=copy

Speakers

Keil Dumsch

Citizen Education Reformer, Education Reborn

I am an online travel and tech industry veteran, historian of human development, and citizen education reformer. For the past 15 years I have spent thousands of hours researching our education system and have concluded that it is irretrievably broken. It needs to be completely rethought... Read More →

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, Virtual

Audience Novice, Experienced, Engaged

TBA

[ON DEMAND] Building Diverse Educator Pathways with Micro-credentials

This session highlights how micro-credentials are utilized as part of an innovative Pre-Educator Pathway program developed by the Louisiana Dept of Ed and Educators Rising. Beginning in the junior year of high school, the program involves a blended curriculum that provides strong foundational academic knowledge, dual enrollment in a local university, and MC submissions as portfolios of learning. Attendees will take away clear examples how MCs can support PD and inclusive workforce pathways.

https://vimeo.com/853157823/41fb901a20?share=copy

Speakers

Maegan Schopper

High School Curriculum Specialist, Rapides Parish School Board

Toriano Hayward

Anne Morris

Director of Programs, Educators Rising, PDK International

Casey Baxley

Partnerships Manager, Micro-credentials, Digital Promise

Hello! I'm the Partnerships Manager on the Micro-credentials team at Digital Promise and collaborate with states, school districts, nonprofits, workforce development, and higher ed institutions to grow and enhance the competency-based micro-credential ecosystem. I'm excited to be... Read More →

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, Virtual

Audience Engaged, Experienced, Novice, Geek

TBA

[ON DEMAND] Collaboration, Convergence or Competition? The Relationship Between Professional and Continuing Education and Traditional Academic Offerings

Join AACRAO and UPCEA to learn about insights from a recent survey on the relationship between the professional and continuing education and traditional academic offerings. Data from this first-look 2023 benchmark survey addresses a number of issues, challenges, and opportunities that professional and continuing education (PCE) units face with registrars and others in central administration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=550kxCVAd3A

Speakers

Jim Fong

Director - UPCEA’s Center for Research and Strategy, Jim Fong

Jim Fong is the Chief Research Officer at UPCEA where he is responsible for trend and custom research for the association’s membership. Prior to joining UPCEA over a decade ago, Jim worked for Penn State University and its World Campus as the Director of Marketing, Research and... Read More →

Wendy Kilgore

Bruce Etter

Seattle Revello

Melanie Gottlieb

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, Virtual

TBA

[ON DEMAND] Rethinking (HE) Credentials to Broaden Educational Horizons

Critical questions around massive open online courses (MOOCs) include: What do learners get for completing a MOOC? How does MOOC completion support learning or career goals? In this Badgesplaining session, Dr. Rob Moore presents a transformative approach to earning academic credit: connecting MOOC-based learning to academic credit through mesocredentials (Moore, 2022). More than 50 mesocredential programs offer learners academic credit after completing a series of MOOCs. This session defines mesocredentials and provides research and implementation strategies.

https://vimeo.com/853161738/60460933b2?share=copy

Speakers

Rob Moore

Assistant Professor & Director, IDEATE Research Lab, University of Florida

Dr. Rob Moore is an Assistant Professor of Educational Technology at the University of Florida in the School of Teaching and Learning and the director of the Investigating Digital Ecologies to Advance Transformative Education (IDEATE) Research Lab in the Institute for Advanced Learning... Read More →

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, Virtual

TBA

[ON DEMAND] Rethinking College Readiness: How human-centered design can help address information problems in college admissions

Feedback Survey

With the US Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action in college admissions, higher education institutions committed to social justice and the educational value of diverse student bodies are under pressure to find new ways of recruiting and building diverse classes that fit within the boundaries of what is permitted by law. While much has been said about the inequality of formal learning and the difficulties this presents to equitable reform, little has been said in regards to informal learning experiences and the significance they play in college admissions. In this session, I discuss my part in designing a platform for credentialing informal learning experiences and how this platform can help us rethink college readiness. Informed by research with college admissions personnel, I discuss the role and value of informal learning in holistic college admissions and touch on the various information problems associated with interpreting information from informal environments. I then introduce and discuss prototypes of the platform to demonstrate how it centers the needs of people (e.g., students, families, and college admissions personnel) in its design.

https://vimeo.com/854427638/c040297754?share=copy

Speakers

Steven Cederquist

Doctoral Candidate, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Steven L. Cederquist is a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan's School of Information co-advised by Profs. Barry Fishman and Stephanie Teasley. He conducts design-based research in higher education.His current work examines how college admissions officers make holistic... Read More →

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, Virtual

TBA

[ON DEMAND] Use of Credentials in the Towing and Recovery Industry

In a conversation between Tow America's CEO Matt Ross and Andrew Fisher a discussion of the use of Verifiable Credentials frame the context for scaled industry needs. The history of Tow America is presented as well as vision for future work.

https://vimeo.com/854226974/84be39d5b0?share=copy

Speakers

Matt Ross

Andrew Fisher

VP of Academic Affairs, Bristol Community College

I currently work as an academic officer for a Bristol Community College in Massachusetts, but also I serve as head of Credentialing for TowAmerica. I have a company called Credential Gateway, where I park my IP, and have built 4 different digital credential systems (2 VC and 2 Open... Read More →

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, Virtual

TBA

[ON DEMAND] Using GitHub Repositories to Promote Credential Transparency: Lessons from a Data Bootcamp at CU Boulder Libraries

This session will discuss how GitHub repositories were integrated into Microcredentials that were offered as part of a data literacy "bootcamp" offered through CU Boulder Libraries in the summer of 2021 and winter of 2023. It will reflect on the value of GitHub repositories in advancing the cause of credential transparency.

https://vimeo.com/854068023/4e3fe7f75a?share=copy

Speakers

Aditya Ranganath

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, Virtual

TBA

[ON-DEMAND] Transformative Badge Case Studies for Wellness and Internships

This presentation highlights the process of badge development. You will follow the presenters as they sample 2 different case studies which demonstrate the implementation of badges. Specifically, you will see the intentional design of badges include identification of gaps where badges can solve pain points, appropriate backward design of badges, outcome driven assessments incorporated into badges, design creation of a badge, as well as pilot plans for additional badge iterations. Ultimately, you will learn ways to discern between buzzwords or trends in technology integration, open badges, pathways, micro-credentials, or online ecosystems to determine the best use of badges to support your individual realms.

https://vimeo.com/854068900/d331d27542?share=copy

Speakers

Camellia Hill

CEO, DeMolder Hill Design

Chat to me about:Professional Development for Your TeamCurriculum Development Based on Industry Standards and Outcomes to Bridge the Skills GapInteractive Course Designs with Integrated Technologies for Authentic Educational OpportunitiesOnboarding Programs with Open Badges to Support... Read More →

Jessica DeMolder

DeMolder Hill Design

Monday August 14, 2023 TBA

On-Demand Recording, Virtual

Audience Novice, Engaged, Experienced

10:00am MDT

Virtual Networking/Viewing Time

We created this space for our virtual attendees to have the time to connect and chat with their colleagues, just as they would when attending an in-person conference. We will have breakout rooms available AND encourage attendees to make this time what it needs to be for YOU. As such, participants are welcome to show up to this session (it will be held in a zoom meeting) prepared to share links in the chat to your own breakout rooms addressing your specific networking needs. As a reminder, you may also utilize the messaging feature within Sched in order to directly reach out to all attendees who opt into making their profiles public.

This time also allows our virtual attendees the opportunity to view some of our pre-recorded content without having to worry about finding free time you don't have to come back and watch later. We hope you enjoy!

All sessions with "ON-DEMAND" in the title are available to stream at your convenience. Click on the session and (as long as you are logged in!) it will display a yellow "Video Stream" button.

Feel free to use this time as a break between sessions, to put your feet up or to go out for a walk!

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86028258648?pwd=bllKanVjS0tIWkdSNkhoMXZ2eXJkZz09
Password: Badge2023

Monday August 14, 2023 10:00am - 11:00am MDT

Networking

11:00am MDT

Building a Career-Connected Regional Ecosystem - Lessons Learned

All students deserve equitable access to an education that nurtures, develops, and empowers them to reach their full potential. Skyepack, Inc and Greater Lafayette Commerce have partnered with area schools, Ivy Tech Community College, and regional employers in an ecosystem that helps K-12 students “connect the dots” between their education and a career. This presentation will explore best practices and lessons learned from first year.

https://vimeo.com/861438703/5a4aef740d?share=copy

Speakers

Aaron Baute

Program Chair, Ivy tech Community College

Kara J Webb

Director of Workforce Development for GLC, Greater Lafayette Commerce.

Kara is the Director of Workforce Development at Great Lafayette Commerce and has been in that role since 2015. Kara lives and breathes to help Lafayette and its residents. You'll find her traveling with her husband and adult children when she's not working.

Eric Davis

CEO, Skyepack, Inc.

We founded Skyepack to help provide better access to opportunity in education, especially those that find themselves furtherest from it (opportunity). We are currently building Career-connected ecosystems through partnerships with higher education, K12, industry and community organizations... Read More →

Jeffrey Botteron

Monday August 14, 2023 11:00am - 11:45am MDT

Virtual Badge Summit Live Session, In Person

Audience Novice, Engaged, Experienced, Geek

11:00am MDT

Stackable Credentials: How KQED + PBS Identified Critical Skills Toward a Media Literacy Certification

Join Rik Panganiban, Manager of Online Learning and Educator Certification, Randy Depew, Managing Director of Education at KQED+PBS, and Kristen Franklin, Senior Program Manager at Digital Promise to discuss the impact of Media Literacy stackable credentials.

With the media landscape shifting with speed and frequency, KQED & PBS created a stack of 8 micro-credentials about learners’ role as media consumers and creators. Once an educator has earned the full stack, they are awarded the Media Literacy Certification. Media Literacy Certified educators are experts in teaching students to produce media that matters. Attendees will learn about the process, successes, and challenges to support others in stacking credentials.

https://vimeo.com/856531413/fc1a285eca?share=copy

Speakers

Randall Depew

Managing Director, Education, KQED

Dr. Randall Depew is the Lead Instructional Designer for KQED Learning and an adjunct faculty member in Brandman University's School of Education. He spent 20 years as a CTE leader for a college and career academy at a Bay Area high school where he specialized in classroom media... Read More →

Rik Panganiban

Manager of Online Learning and Educator Certification, KQED

Manager of the PBS Media Literacy Educator Certification by KQED. Find out more at http://kqed.org/certification .

Kristen Franklin

Senior Program Manager, Digital Promise

Monday August 14, 2023 11:00am - 11:45am MDT

Virtual Badge Summit Live Session, Virtual

Audience Novice, Engaged, Experienced, Geek

12:00pm MDT

Equity by Design: Micro-Credentials in the classroom

This session will explore the use of micro-credentials and signature assignments to give students a competitive edge in the workforce. Participants will learn how faculty can create open repositories of activities to use across disciplines and offer badge opportunities to validate students' skills. The session will also discuss the role of competency-based learning in providing students with a hands-on, experiential learning experience.
https://vimeo.com/861402296/40d7ee2169?share=copy

Speakers

Christine Crefton

Project and Planning Analyst, Montgomery College

Dr. Christine Crefton has extensive experience in various sectors, including private, government, academic and public libraries, and adult learning environments. She advocates for transformational leadership, courageous visioning, and identifying individual strengths and motivations... Read More →

Monday August 14, 2023 12:00pm - 12:45pm MDT

Virtual Badge Summit Live Session, Virtual

12:00pm MDT

Launching Microcredentials at a Small Institution

In Spring 2023, Mitchell College is launching the Mitchell Hub – a center for professional learning and upskilling – through online microcredentials and providing learner support. As a very small institution, I hope to share our process and key decision points, particularly around outsourcing and developing institutional expertise.

https://vimeo.com/858799687/332fc88202?share=copy

Speakers

Karen Bellnier

Director of Digital Innovation, Mitchell College

Karen Bellnier has been working in online learning and instructional design in higher education since 2008. She is a strong advocate for learner success. She has master’s degrees in developmental psychology and in instructional design and is currently pursuing a doctorate in education... Read More →

Monday August 14, 2023 12:00pm - 12:45pm MDT

Virtual Badge Summit Live Session, Virtual

Audience Engaged

12:00pm MDT

PLLA Transfer Credit and MedCerts’ Process of Working with Colleges to Give Students a Clear Pathway to Higher Levels of Education

Explore the significance of PLA transfer credits and the pivotal role MedCerts is playing in paving pathways to success in higher education and beyond. Rafael Castaneda, Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships & Workforce at MedCerts, will lead an insightful discussion on PLA transfer credits and the seamless collaboration with academic institutions that enables learners to effortlessly apply their skills and knowledge to specialized academic programs. Gain valuable insights into the resounding success of these partnerships and how they unlock exciting educational opportunities, shaping professional journeys with confidence and competence.

https://vimeo.com/861472889/dc70b8c25f?share=copy

Speakers

Rafael A. Castañeda

SVP of Strategic Partnerships & Workforce Development

Monday August 14, 2023 12:00pm - 12:45pm MDT

Virtual Badge Summit Live Session

1:00pm MDT

Virtual Badge Summit Closing: Reflections and Calls to Action

Thank you to our sponsors and exhibitors! You bring essential knowledge and expert guidance that is shaping the future of this space. And it is only thanks to your support that we are able to present this programming while also keeping registration costs accessible and providing scholarships for colleagues for whom cost is a barrier. Thank you!

We will conclude the Virtual Badge Summit with a closing conversation during which attendees are invited to share your reflections and calls to action.

Also, drawing inspiration from Brent Capriotti and WGU, we have created this "Post-Conference Postcard" template.
We invite you to edit it with your own takeaways and provocations, and to share with us live during this session, as well as on social media. Please use #BadgeSummit so that we can find you! [The link will prompt you to make a copy of a Google Slide that you can then edit to make your own. It contains instructions on how to edit, download, and share.]

https://vimeo.com/861397088/9fbfa9eff2?share=copy

Monday August 14, 2023 1:00pm - 1:30pm MDT

Virtual Badge Summit Live Session