Professional Development Webinars

How can your team recognize learning achievements while supporting a variety of learning experiences, regardless of where or when that learning took place? During this webinar, Robert Bajor, Digital Credentialing Evangelist at Badgr will guide attendees through five necessary components for creating, implementing, and scaling a modern, open, and rigorous learning ecosystem. Topics covered will include open badges, metadata, learning pathways, motivation, digital badge currency, and more!

Learning Objectives

1. Attendees will gain an understanding of the open badges specification and ecosystem
2. Attendees will learn more about the national "skills gap" and how it is being addressed within the United States and abroad.
3. Attendees will discover free tools for implementing open recognition that aligns with their instructional goals.
4. Attendees will learn more about attaching evidence to achievements, thereby increasing the personalization and rigor of earned awards.

Many employers and employees are required to work from home during the COVID-19 crisis, and may be looking to continue to allow their team to work remotely when we come to the new normal. This Webinar provides strategies and ideas for making sure your team has the software and information they need to be successful and productive.

By the end of this webinar, learners will be able to:
- Outline the greatest needs of businesses transitioning from physical to remote office environments
- Communicate the needs of employees working in remote office environments
- Name the tools your business will need to make the transition from physical to remote work

Every training organization gathers and stores personally identifiable information (PII) of their learners. The ANSI/IACET 2018-1 Standard for Continuing Education and Training also requires that training organizations "maintain an operational record keeping system, including backup, for each learner and learning event." Organizations are expected to manage this private data appropriately and take every precaution to protect it from loss, unauthorized access or theft. Misusing, losing or otherwise compromising this data can carry a steep financial cost and damage an organization's reputation. This webinar will examine the challenges companies face, as well as, steps they can take to protect themselves against data breaches and ensure the safety and security of this sensitive information.

By the end of this webinar, learners will be able to:
- Define personally identifiable information (PII)
- Identify the organizational and individual responsibilities for safeguarding PII
- Identify methods of attack used by malicious actors and how to counter those attacks 
- Identify the steps to create a data privacy policy

Join us to learn which standards apply to current test practices, how to find them, and how to improve exams and quizzes you have already created. This webinar will be useful to all levels of instruction wherever multiple choice questions are employed.

By the end of this webinar, you will be able to:
- Describe what standards are & who sets the standard for writing test items
- Apply an industry standard to a test item 
- List 12 tips to help avoid the most common errors