Duke on Demand

Session begins at 2:30 in. Panel: Badges from design to adoption Introductions by Cathy Davidson and Carla Casilli, Open Badges Project Lead/Learning Group Badges and Assessment: The Myths, the Models and the Opportunities Erin Knight, Senior Learning Director, Mozilla Foundation Featuring an overview of the assessment landscape plus a deep dive on opportunities and approaches for assessment with badges and badge system design. Special attention on embedded, peer, and self assessment. Implementing Badges In Organizations: Amazon.com to Inside Jobs Todd Edebohls, CEO, Inside Jobs Helping organization members accept, embrace, and evangelize digital badges can be easy. Todd Edebohls will share how Amazon.com's ten years of digital badge for employees and customers shaped his view for Inside Jobs and its career exploration site insidejobs.com. Let's Issue Badges (Technically)! Chris McAvoy, Open Badges Product Lead, Mozilla Foundation Chris McAvoy will talk about how to issue a badge with a text editor and a web server to cover the bare essentials, then talk about other issuing options, including Wordpress. Realizing the Common Core: Investing in Teacher Learning & Leadership Barnett Berry, Founder and President of the Center for Teaching Quality (CTQ), Inc. Participants will explore the impact the Common Core State Standards are having on teaching and learning and identify ways to transform the profession through badging. We will explore how teachers are teaching to the Common Core today — including a look at pedagogical snapshots — and the implications for education entrepreneurs now and in the future.

10:30-11:30 am Sparking the conversation: Project presentations for feedback and group Q&A Introduction by Sheryl Grant, Director of Social Networking, HASTAC & Digital Media and Learning Competition LevelUp Lance Chrisman, Effective SC; Jeni Gotto, Adams County School District 50 Who Built America? Badges for Teaching Disciplinary Literacy in History Ellen Noonan, Asia Society; David Langendoen, Electric Funstuff

Agenda is subject to change.

8:30-9:00 am Welcome
Roll Call, Victoria Wegener, Mainspring Consulting

Keith Whitfield, Vice Provost of Academic Affairs,
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University

Cathy Davidson, Co-Director PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge
John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, and HASTAC Co-founder, Duke University

David Theo Goldberg, Director, University of California Humanities Research Institute, and HASTAC Co-founder, University of California, Irvine

9:00-9:45 am Connected Learning and MacArthur Foundation grantmaking
Bay 4 Garage An-Me Chung, Associate Director of Education, John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation

9:45-10:00 am Common Core and Gates Foundation grantmaking
Bay 4 Garage Robert Torres, Senior Program Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

10:00-10:15 am Question and answer session
Bay 4 Garage Connie Yowell, Director of Education, John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation

An-Me Chung, Associate Director of Education, John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation

Robert Torres, Senior Program Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Duke University's Center for European Studies (CES) cultivates and supports all manner of intellectual life focused on Europe at Duke, acts as a catalyst for scholarship on Europe, and provides a unifying community for scholars of Europe within the university. To this end, graduate and professional students and visiting scholars have a forum to their support research and further deepen their interests in the interdisciplinary study of Europe.

Duke University's Center for European Studies (CES) cultivates and supports all manner of intellectual life focused on Europe at Duke, acts as a catalyst for scholarship on Europe, and provides a unifying community for scholars of Europe within the university. To this end, graduate and professional students and visiting scholars have a forum to their support research and further deepen their interests in the interdisciplinary study of Europe.

In this DukeReads live webcast, the author of the summer reading assignment "State of Wonder" speaks to members of the Class of 2016 about how she wrote the book, the craft of writing, college advice and more.