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Awarding digital badges: research from a first-year university course Open
This paper reports on a study that replaced marks with digital badges in an undergraduate Initial Teacher Education course. The aim was to examine the impact of badging on students, and on the quality of university provision. Data collecti…
Awarding digital badges instead of grades? Open
Micro-credentials are seeing increasingly rapid adoption in higher education (McGreal & Olcott, 2022), however their efficacy is still being explored (Stefaniak & Carey, 2019); as Oliver (2019) notes, “rapid innovation can be exhilarating,…
Internet kiosks in Uganda Open
Community Technology Centres (CTCs) have emerged in low-income contexts in the Global South to reduce digital exclusion. Despite the widespread of CTCs and numerous studies on them, the evidence on their impact is inconclusive. The focus h…
Supporting your child online – pointers for parents Open
Non-formal learning within the home plays a major role in children developing advanced digital skills. In this post Peter Twining discusses which practices adopted by ‘digitally connected families’ are the most successful. Professor of Edu…
NP3 New Purposes New Practices New Pedagogy Meta-analysis Report Open
This is the main report of the findings of the NP3 project, which looked at children's use of ICT outside school and the extent to which this influenced pedagogy inside primary schools.
NP3 Exploratory Study 8:Report from the project New Purposes, New Practices, New Pedagogies (NP3) Open
New Purposes – New Practices – New Pedagogy (NP3) is a collaboration between The Open University, Lancaster University and Manchester Metropolitan University, led by Professor Peter Twining. NP3 is finding out about how children's digital …