Re: [Edu-sig] Question about certifying teachers

2019-01-24 Thread Nicholas H.Tollervey
I'm currently working on this: https://codegrades.com/ This is still very early stages. N. On 25/01/2019 01:35, Charles Severance wrote: > Hi all, > > I am working with a group of college professors at small schools and > developing a program to help them teach programming to non-programmers. 

Re: [Edu-sig] Question about certifying teachers

2019-01-24 Thread Wes Turner
OpenBadges https://openbadges.org/get-started/issuing-badges/ > Open Badges provide a flexible way to recognize learning wherever it happens, in and out of formal education and the workplace. They can represent any achievement from simple participation to evidence-backed competency development.

[Edu-sig] Question about certifying teachers

2019-01-24 Thread Charles Severance
Hi all, I am working with a group of college professors at small schools and developing a program to help them teach programming to non-programmers.  One aspect of this is to provide training for the teachers.   It might be cool to invent a certificate to give them after they complete

Re: [Edu-sig] Question about certifying teachers

2019-01-24 Thread kirby urner
Hi Charles (fond memories from Google App Engine days... we met at a Pycon in Chicago years ago)... Issuing some proof of completion, in certificate form (an actual document with their name on it, could be PDF) helps your enrollees put something on their resume. The other half of that equation