Alt-Ed is devoted to documenting significant initiatives relating to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), digital badges, and similar alternative educational initiatives.
Background Learning today happens everywhere But it's often difficult to get recognition for skills and achievements gained outside of school. Mozilla's Open Badges project is working to solve that problem, making it easy for any organization or learning community to issue, earn and display badges across the web.
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This collaborative workshop has brought together stakeholders from government, industry, educational institutions, and the education outreach, support and service sector in India 2012.
especially:
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/13/1/50477306.pdf
Funding to support and develop the College's links with Indian universities, as part of a strategic intergovernmental initiative to foster closer scientific collaboration between UK and Indian scientists and industrial engineers.
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