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    Micro-Credentialing: Digital Badges in Faculty Professional Development
    (University of Calgary, 2015-06) Yu, Lin; Dyjur, Patti; Miltenburg, Joni; Saito, Kevin; Werklund School of Education
    Many instructors in higher education rely on non-credit professional development opportunities to enhance their teaching practice. Using digital badges as a form of micro-credentialing is one way that faculty and graduate students can plan, document, and share their non-credit learning and accomplishments. Micro-credentialing has the potential to allow people to set flexible and personalized learning goals, defining what professional learning opportunities are meaningful to them. This paper introduces digital badges and micro-credentialing, describes a platform for issuing and displaying badges, and introduces a pilot study on the impact of a digital badges program.