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By Preetha Ram on the Innovating Education blog, Jan 25 2012. Ram looks at social capital in terms of persistence in education, but also considers social capital in terms of (education) badges.

Ram was a Jam participant and shared this post, along with one on badges for retention.

Definition taken from Wikipedia.org. Bayesian network is a method of looking at probability.

Jammer David Gibson explained that his massive online game uses a Bayesian network to understand where each user has gone in the game and how each user has played. The network will help to establish badges.

A professional organization, AACE offers a wide array of resources, including conferences, publications, a digital library, and a career center.

One Jammer used an AACE-generated mailing list to begin to form his mailing list.

Posted to YouTube by xilymikehx on October 9, 2009; music is by Quad City DJs from Space Jam (soundtrack). Audio only.

As per the Reader Notes (at the top of the document), this is a project funded by the Hewlett Foundation to Peer to Peer University. This white paper draft is available, for comment, in Google Docs. David Gibson is one author.

David Gibson, a Jam participant, provided a link to this draft with this comment: "a white paper I co-authored with others under a grant from foundations driving the new efforts in badging. We're seeking public input and feedback on the paper."

By David Lascu in Educause Quarterly, Vol 34 (4), 2011. The goal of the project, as outlined in the Key Takeaways, is to improve students' college readiness using open educational resources (OER) to help them prepare for higher education.

David Lascu, a Jammer, shared this paper that he authored.

By Jeffrey R. Young in College 2.0 of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan 8 2012. This article looks at the use of badges to mark accomplishments and progress in online courses.

This article was mentioned in the Jam with special notice of the profile of one of OpenStudy's Level 40 Heros.

This page features some recorded webinars about the Bridge to Success program (scroll approx 3/4 of the way down the page to Webinar Archives).

By Preetha Ram on Innovating Education blog, September 15 2011. In this post, Ram posits the badge as a means of promoting retention in online courses, particularly free and open courses.

Ran participated in the NGLC Jam.

By Diane M. Reddy, Raymond Fleming, Laura E. Pedrick, Katie A. Ports, Jessica L. Barnack-Tavlaris, Alicia M. Helion, and Rodney A. Swain in EDUCAUSE Quarterly Magazine, Volume 34, Number 4, 2011. Authors describe the U-Pace instructional approach, started at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. U-Pace combines self-paced, mastery-based learning with instructor initiated "Amplified Assistance" (conveyed through e-mail).

OpenStudy is a for profit social learning network where students ask questions, give help, and connect with other students studying the same things.

From their website, "Open Learning: Bridge to Success (B2S) offers free, open educational resources to prepare adults to successfully and confidently transition to a college environment, to pursue advanced qualifications, or to be successful in their chosen careers."

Bridge to Success is a Wave 1 grantee.

"simSchool is a classroom simulation that supports the rapid accumulation of a teacher's experience in analyzing student differences, adapting instruction to individual learner needs, gathering data about the impacts of instruction, and seeing the results of their teaching." -from About page

Article about BioBook by Gregory Ferenstein on Fast Company, October 30, 2011. Dan Johnson/Wake Forest's BioBook is a NGLC Wave 1 winner.