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2M is a campaign to scale up the existing badge ecosystem to a national level to benefit 1 million workers and 1 million students by 2016. Initiative from Mozilla Foundation, HASTAC and the MacArthur Foundation

Solar Power Up: Great example of how badges lead to tinkering, as well as how it's all about making and creating. Video shared by Connie Yowell of the MacArthur Foundation at the Open Badges Summit 2014.

TAMRITZ in the news...bold ideas with badges with support from the Joshua Venture Group and AVI CHAI Foundation

AVI CHAI Foundation report and sharing of blended learning Jewish Day Schools

Just as students are no longer tethered to textbooks (in most formal education settings), apps that are strictly didactic-designed to promote academic proficiency and foundational fluency-are often the first that parents and teachers reach for when looking for something "constructive."

Choice-based assessments for the Digital Age

Pittsburgh is piloting a city-wide summer of learning where they will issue open badges to 3,000 youth

Interview with Connie Yowell on Connected Learning -- Making Learning Relevant

Wonderful resource that helps you launch blended learning in your school