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Digital Badges For Stem Learning In Secondary Contexts: A Mixed Methods Study, Angela Elkordy
Digital Badges For Stem Learning In Secondary Contexts: A Mixed Methods Study, Angela Elkordy
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The deficit in STEM skills is a matter of concern for national economies and a major focus for educational policy makers. The development of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) has resulted in a rapidly changing workforce of global scale. In addition, ICT have fostered the growth of digital and mobile technologies which have been the learning context, formal and informal, for a generation of youth. The purpose of this study was to design an intervention based upon a competency-based, digitally-mediated, learning intervention: digital badges for learning STEM habits of mind and practices. Designed purposefully, digital badge learning trajectories and criteria …