Digital Promise

JANUARY 24, 2017

Moving from Investigate to Act, participants identified two solutions: creating micro-credentials to “certify” local assessors and developing a stack of micro-credentials for district leaders seeking to implement culture change around professional learning.

Education 83

Education Professional Development Leadership Economics 83

ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

That movie, which everyone in Silicon Valley and in the culture at large was talking about, was “The Social Network,” depicting the contentious creation of Facebook. And he wrote the white paper for it around the time of that bagel meetup for the Thiel Fellowship. Lots of people see this as a world-changing idea.

Economics 123

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Digital Promise

APRIL 18, 2017

By articulating a specific research-backed skill and assessing evidence of that skill in practice, micro-credentials can transform a district’s culture of professional learning. Their guiding question was: “How can we structure the economics of micro-credentials to provide value beyond professional development to educators?”.

Professional Development 70

Professional Development Economics Cultures Research 70

Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Data Source: 2024 White Paper on Suicide Prevention (Ministry of Health and Welfare, 2024). Earlier in the interview, she had spoken at length about her familys lower economic status, which caused her significant distress during her adolescence.

Psychology 52

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