American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) offers a program called Project Management for History Professionals, which is a series of workshops providing formal project management training to history professionals. The program utilizes a BadgeOS-powered WordPress site as the home for of the online learning activities and discussions.
A comprehensive paper about the new DMA Friends program at the Dallas Museum of Art. "At the heart of DMA Friends is a relationship management system that is a modified version of BadgeOS ... This system is the primary source of interaction for all systems and is the engine driving feedback for visitor engagement. Visitors are registered, engagement recognized, credit earned, and rewards redeemed through this system."
Adopting online game design techniques, New York City’s YMCA has created a dynamic badge system built on BadgeOS that motivates, recognizes and rewards young people’s MVP levels while helping them to create life-long healthy habits.
The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence is using the innovative BadgeOS platform to expand The RULER Approach emotional literacy curricula to include an online teacher certification process.
Using BadgeOS, Muhlenberg College enhanced their HYPE Program this year to include badges to recognize participants’ accomplishments. HYPE develops leadership and community advocacy skills in local high school students through documentary filmmaking.
Using BadgeOS, Longwood University in Farmville, Va., is offering a post-secondary readiness MOOC program for high-school students this year. The noncredit course, called “5 Skills You Need to Succeed: What Employers Want You to Know,” teaches communication and presentation skills, critical thinking, interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, and how to successfully navigate the work world.
The successful DIG/IT initiative offered in New York City public high schools has been expanded to provide badge-based learning to more than 4,000 students in the 2012-2013 school year.
Jonathan Finkelstein, CEO of Credly and director of the BadgeOS Project, was recently featured in a video produced by the NYC Department of Education to introduce educators to digital badges in K-12 classroom settings.
"NatureBadges: Nature & Science Badge System" is an exciting collaboration between the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) and LearningTimes. The team was awarded a grant from the Digital Media and Learning Competition 4 – Badges for Lifelong Learning competition for this important STEM badge-based learning program.
Jonathan Finkelstein, CEO of Credly and director of the BadgeOS Project, recently spoke to Dr. Martha J. Kanter, Under Secretary of Education at the U.S. Department of Education. The discussion turned towards digital badges and the role they can play in education and workforce development.
