Rupert Ward on Badging and Digital Trust

This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is a part of our New Pathways campaign. In partnership with American Student Assistance® (ASA), Stand Together and the Walton Foundation, the New Pathways campaign will question education’s status quo and propose new methods of giving students a chance to experience success in what’s next. 

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Nate McClennen is joined by Rupert Ward, a former Special Adviser and Project Lead for iDEA, one of the world’s most successful free educational technologies. 

Rupert is a Professor of Learning Innovation and Associate Dean (International) within the School of Computing and Engineering – at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He is also a National Teaching Fellow and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Nate and Rupert discuss the importance of trust, how learning fitness could be more like physical fitness and the role of technology in shaping the future of learning. 

Links:

• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• iDEA
• Importance of BCS Accreditation
• International Council on Badges
• Personalized Learning for the Learning Person by Rupert Ward
• Getting Personal: How we learn and why we don’t
• Andreas Schleicher
• OECD
• Martin Bean
• The Bean Centre