Getting started
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| Course: | TPD@Scale: Introduction and key principles |
| Book: | Getting started |
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| Date: | Saturday, 18 May 2024, 11:56 AM |
Explore the TPD@Scale course website
Take 10 minutes to browse through the TPD@Scale Course 1 website. Try out an audio-visual resource, to make sure you can see and hear the AV. You can skim the other courses in this TPD@Scale collection, to get an overview of the content and the learning outcomes.
Your Personal Blog
Your blog is your private writing and note-making space for this course. No one will see what you write unless you agree to share your writing with others. Many students find the blog useful to record their ideas and keep a record of their studies. Please remember that in order to achieve a digital badge for any of the four courses, one of the requirements is to make a minimum of one post in your Personal Blog for each course.
In your personal blog, take a few minutes to write about:
(1) Why you decided to study this course: In your professional role or personally, are you interested in scalable teacher professional development? Have you experience of a teacher development programme that you think has potential to be scalable?
(2) Your plans for study: How will you work through this course - when and where will you study, and how often? Will you study on your own, with a peer, or in a group? If you are studying in a group, will you have a facilitator, or people who take turns to facilitate?
Achieving the Digital Badge
What is a badged course?
Badges are a useful way to demonstrate participation and to recognise informal learning. Badges are a digital recognition of certain skills and achievements acquired through informal study and they are entirely optional. Badges do not carry any formal credit as they are not subject to the same rigour as formal assessment; nor are they proof that you have studied the full unit or course.
If you'd like to learn more about badges, you will find more information on the following websites:
- Open Badges – this information is provided by IMS Global, the organisation responsible for the open badge standards.
- Digital Badges – this information is provided by HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory), a global community working to transform how we learn, and particularly making use of technology.
Gaining your badge
To gain the digital badge for this course, you will need to:
- Complete all the in-course readings and activities
- Complete the end-of-course quiz and achieve at least 70%.
- Make a minimum of one post in your Personal Blog.
When you have successfully achieved the completion criteria you will receive your badge for the course. You will receive an email notification that your badge has been awarded and it will appear in the My Badges area in your profile. Please note it can take up to 24 hours for a badge to be issued.
Your badge demonstrates that you have achieved the learning outcomes for the course. These outcomes are listed at the start of each section.
The digital badge does not represent formal credit or award, but rather it demonstrates successful participation in informal learning activity.
Sharing your badge
You can share your badge via social media such as Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn and to a badge backpack such as Badgr.
Accessing your badge
From within the TPD@Scale: Introduction and key principles course:
- Go to my profile and click on achievements. You will see the badge alongside the course title.
- To view the details of the badge, to download it, or to add it to abadge backpack, click on the badge and you will be taken to the Badge Information page.
- You can either download this page to your computer or add the badge to your badge Backpack.