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Blackboard and Concentric Sky Partner to Make Badgr Micro-credentials and Stackable Pathways Available to More Learners

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Tuesday, May 25, 2021
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The partnership makes Badgr Pro 's suite of tools, including objective-based automations, leaderboards and personalized pathway progress visualizations, available within Blackboard's leading learning management system (LMS), Blackboard Learn.

Key Points: 
  • The partnership makes Badgr Pro 's suite of tools, including objective-based automations, leaderboards and personalized pathway progress visualizations, available within Blackboard's leading learning management system (LMS), Blackboard Learn.
  • "We're excited to collaborate with Blackboard to integrate Badgr's stackable digital credentialing technology into Blackboard Learn," said Wayne Skipper, Founder of Concentric Sky.
  • Badgr Spaces, first available in Blackboard Learn, enables learners to earn personalized digital credentials and instructors to align course objectives and learning pathways with digital badges.
  • Blackboard and Badgr previously partnered in 2020 during Blackboard's annual conference, BbWorld, where more than 2,000 digital badges were awarded.

CLS by BARBRI Partners with Credly to Issue Digital Badges

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Tuesday, April 27, 2021
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b'DALLAS, April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- CLS by BARBRI is proud to announce an important new way a digital badge -- that students can verify their achievement and market their skills upon course completion.

Key Points: 
  • b'DALLAS, April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- CLS by BARBRI is proud to announce an important new way a digital badge -- that students can verify their achievement and market their skills upon course completion.
  • "Digital badges can help differentiate your skills from others and solidify your credibility.
  • This is a game-changer for students looking to shift into a new career or move up in a current role.
  • "\nUpon completion in any of the CLS courses, students will be able to claim their badges and share them on personal and professional social media profiles, websites, email, and more.

iCo Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Agreement for in Vivo Testing of iCo-019 on SARS-CoV-2

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Tuesday, March 16, 2021
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iCo anticipates that the iCo-019 Study will be completed by the end of Q2 2021.

Key Points: 
  • iCo anticipates that the iCo-019 Study will be completed by the end of Q2 2021.
  • "We are excited for this next phase in our development of iCo-019 to begin," said William Jarosz, the Chief Executive Officer of iCo.
  • ( https://www.cspscanada.org/symposium-events/2021-csps-symposium/ )
    iCo Therapeutics identifies existing development stage assets for use in underserved ocular and infectious diseases.
  • iCo shares trade on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "ICO" and on the OTCQB under the symbol "ICOTF".

Credential Engine and Concentric Sky Connect Learning Pathways with CTDL Registry

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Tuesday, September 29, 2020
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --Concentric Sky (makers of Badgr) and Credential Engine have announced a pioneering new collaboration that will make it possible for credential issuers worldwide to export their open badge-backed professional learning achievements from Badgr's stackable, credential pathways and then publish them into Credential Engine's global Registry .

Key Points: 
  • WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --Concentric Sky (makers of Badgr) and Credential Engine have announced a pioneering new collaboration that will make it possible for credential issuers worldwide to export their open badge-backed professional learning achievements from Badgr's stackable, credential pathways and then publish them into Credential Engine's global Registry .
  • Many of the micro-credentials issued through the Badgr platform are assembled into stackable learning journeys using Badgr's easy-to-understand Pathways tools.
  • Badgr's collaboration with Credential Engine leverages the power of Open Badges , CTDL Pathways , and Badgr's open infrastructure which all share a common digital format.
  • Soon, credential issuers will have the ability to connect their machine-readable digital badges and learning pathways from Badgr with Credential Engine's expansive structure of open data.

Dublin City University enhances recognition of learning with the use of Digitary's Digital Badges Platform

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Monday, August 17, 2020
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DUBLIN, Aug. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Dublin City University (DCU) and Dublin-founded digital credentials pioneer Digitary, have announced a strategic partnership launching a new micro-credentialing initiative to recognise the learning of students.

Key Points: 
  • DUBLIN, Aug. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Dublin City University (DCU) and Dublin-founded digital credentials pioneer Digitary, have announced a strategic partnership launching a new micro-credentialing initiative to recognise the learning of students.
  • As part of this partnership DCU will issue Badges using Digitary's Badges Platform.
  • Learners will now have a single digital wallet that will include all of their official certificates, documents and the badges earned throughout their DCU learning journey.
  • "Digitary is honoured to extend our partnership with Dublin City University, integrating comprehensive and interoperable digital badging functionality into DCU's implementation of Digitary's Credentialing platform.

Dublin City University enhances recognition of learning with the use of Digitary's Digital Badges Platform

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Monday, August 17, 2020
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DUBLIN, Aug. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Dublin City University (DCU) and Dublin-founded digital credentials pioneer Digitary, have announced a strategic partnership launching a new micro-credentialing initiative to recognise the learning of students.

Key Points: 
  • DUBLIN, Aug. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Dublin City University (DCU) and Dublin-founded digital credentials pioneer Digitary, have announced a strategic partnership launching a new micro-credentialing initiative to recognise the learning of students.
  • As part of this partnership DCU will issue Badges using Digitary's Badges Platform.
  • Learners will now have a single digital wallet that will include all of their official certificates, documents and the badges earned throughout their DCU learning journey.
  • "Digitary is honoured to extend our partnership with Dublin City University, integrating comprehensive and interoperable digital badging functionality into DCU's implementation of Digitary's Credentialing platform.

Skillsoft Awards 4.5 Million Digital Badges to Learners

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Thursday, August 6, 2020
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Skillsoft , a provider of digital learning, training, and talent solutions to help organizations unleash their edge, has seen a rapid increase in learner engagement and self-led online learning since March 2020, with learners earning an unprecedented 4.5 million digital badges upon the completion of select courses.

Key Points: 
  • Skillsoft , a provider of digital learning, training, and talent solutions to help organizations unleash their edge, has seen a rapid increase in learner engagement and self-led online learning since March 2020, with learners earning an unprecedented 4.5 million digital badges upon the completion of select courses.
  • In February, Skillsoft digital badging capabilities launched to offer a virtual, verifiable representation of skills learned on the Skillsoft Percipio learning platform.
  • As todays professionals navigate a skills economy, digital badges enable learners to build a portable, verifiable digital portfolio spotlighting their earned skills and authenticated credentials.
  • For more information on Skillsoft, digital badges, and the future of learning, visit www.skillsoft.com .

Randstad RiseSmart rolls out digital badging for career mobility teams in more than 80 countries

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Thursday, May 21, 2020
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Digital badges are quickly becoming the international currency of choice for conveying knowledge and skills.

Key Points: 
  • Digital badges are quickly becoming the international currency of choice for conveying knowledge and skills.
  • RiseSmart's digital badges are verifiable, portable and shareable proof that the company's career mobility teams have passed comprehensive training, development and certification tests.
  • That's why we are the first in our industry to certify the skills of our career mobility teams with digital badging," said Dan Davenport, Randstad RiseSmart president and general manager.
  • In addition to offering digital badging to its career mobility teams, RiseSmart is doing the same for its engineering team members and plans to expand the program to other parts of the organization.

Scottish company hit with maximum fine for making nearly 200 million nuisance calls

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Monday, March 2, 2020
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The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) has fined CRDNN Limitedwith the maximum 500,000 fine for making more than 193 million automated nuisance calls.

Key Points: 
  • The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) has fined CRDNN Limitedwith the maximum 500,000 fine for making more than 193 million automated nuisance calls.
  • The subsequent ICO investigation revealed that CRDNN Limited was found to be making nearly 1.6 million calls per day about window scrappage, debt management, window, conservatory and boiler sales between 1 June and 1 October 2018.
  • The calls were all made from so-called spoofed numbers, which meant that people who received the calls could not identify who was making them.
  • CRDNN Limited came to the attention of the ICO when more than 3,000 complaints were made about the nuisance calls.

Digital Badging Leaders Gather for Credential Summit

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Wednesday, January 22, 2020
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- Mike Simmons, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of North Texas

Key Points: 
  • - Mike Simmons, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of North Texas
    "We're excited to support our partners as they showcase their successful digital credential programs at the 2020 IMS Digital Credential Summit.
  • - Wayne Skipper, Founder/CEO of Concentric Sky
    The IMS Global Digital Credential Summit will kick off on February 11th and 12th, in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Other topics to be addressed at the summit include connecting people to jobs, building statewide K-12 digital credential systems, stackable credential pathways, and advances in Open Badges.
  • Badgr is a global ecosystem of digital badging and credentialing tools for individuals and organizations of all sizes.