CourseNetworking Collaborates with Credential Engine to Support Learners with Credential Data

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CourseNetworking Making Strides in ePortfolio Development

CourseNetworking (CN) is in the business of academic social-networking, educational technology solutions in order to change the way the world learns. CourseNetworking's most recent focus: the CN Social ePortfolio aims at creating a life-long, academic-based portfolio platform for students and professionals alike to showcase relevant artifacts and skills. With this focus in mind, partnered with Credential Engine, we’re implementing the Registry into the CN platform. Now, users input skill tags onto their ePortfolios and have the opportunity to filter the Registry by skill tags in order to help them find meaningful credential options in which they are interested.

Credential Engine Aiding CourseNetworking Users

In this respect, Credential Engine data helps CN users find information on career paths that spark their interest in much simpler ways than ever before. For example, a student using CourseNetworking right now can input the skill tag #History on their ePortfolio.

Q&A with Professor Hessam Sarooghi, Business Lecturer at Butler University.

CourseNetworking - A Weapon of Mass Education

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A CHANCE ENCOUNTER

I wasn’t actively searching for another solution yet, but one evening, a new follower on my Twitter account attracted my attention. The handle was @coursenetwork and it claimed to be “changing the way the world learns”.  That was a kind of a bold statement!

I stumbled on the Course Networking by chance.  I was very unsatisfied with the e-learning solution I was using just a couple of months ago.  The LMS itself was fine, but, as a few glitches occurred, I had the unfortunate opportunity to test the reactivity of the customer service - it was a full-blown disaster.

However, since I am naturally curious, I clicked on the provided link.  And I found something new, something I have long sought after. Not a simple LMS, but a full and complete solution.  A “real virtual learning environment”, as weird as that oxymoron may sound.

I have been working for years on e-learning. I have been a pioneer in bringing blended learning to a few Belgian schools. So, I was perfectly aware that most solutions on the market were lacking an essential part of what works so well within traditional in-person schools: true social features.

THE LESSONS FROM MY OWN ACADEMIC JOURNEY

I left school early. I didn’t even finish high school. I went to work in a number of industries, ending in industrial and naval cleaning. Then, one day, I realized I would be stuck in this kind of job for the rest of my life. Was that really what I wanted? No, it wasn’t. I enjoyed those years of freedom and travels very much, but I longed for something different, for something more intellectually challenging.

CourseNetworking’s partnership with Leaderonomics, a social enterprise in Malaysia dedicated to growing people through leadership development, was officiated with the launch of Digital Learning on thecn.com on March 9th, 2016.

At the conclusion of our first ever CN Instagram competition, CN Around You, CN selected the $100 prize winner, Olivia Martinez, a student at IUPUI. She gave her money her sorority's philanthropy event, BMOC, to help raise awareness and educate people about breast cancer. She is a member of Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority.

Ines Puspita, a teacher at the Deutsch International School of Jakarta, Indonesia, describes her use of CN with her students in grades 4-9. She talks about her favorite features and how her students have applied CN to their video projects by promoting the network on YouTube.

Mihaela Vorvoreanu, User Experience Design Professor at Purdue University, gives us perspective on her use of CN. She tells how she and her students helped CN improve its user interface design.

The newly established CN Teaching Scholars' Think Tank is made up of instructors who agree with what CN stands for and use it in their classrooms regularly. TST members are involved in research collaborations on advanced educational technology and pedagogies. They bring new ideas and feedback to the CN and help the system grow.