Digital Media and Learning Competition 4: Badges for Lifelong Learning

Sep 15, 2011
Washington DC / Hirshhorn Museum


Competition Announcement, Panel, and Q&A

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with Mozilla and HASTAC, discuss the potential of Badges for Lifelong Learning. Badges are a new assessment tool that will help identify skills mastered in formal and informal settings, virtually and in physical spaces, and in schools, workplaces and communities.

Featured speakers: The Honorable Arne Duncan, Secretary, U.S. Department of Education; Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Administrator, NASA; Emily Stover DeRocco, President, The Manufacturing Institute and the National Center for the American Workforce; and Mark Surman, Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation. View the event at DMLcompetition.net.