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May 13, 2021

NEW DATE - June 1 webinar - Blockchain, other new features

Join us with our partners from Open Badge Factory for an international OBF Academy webinar.

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Apr 28, 2021

Blockchain and other new features coming to CanCred

Join us with our partners from Open Badge Factory for an international OBF Academy webinar.

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Mar 9, 2021

Commonwealth of Learning micro-credential webinars

CanCred’s Don Presant led a two-part series of professional development workshops to help demystify micro-credentials for emergent economies in The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) community.

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Mar 2, 2021

New framework alignment hub for Factory

CanCred’s Don Presant introduces an exciting new way to align micro-credentials and informal badges to open frameworks on CanCred Factory and Open Badge Factory, similar to how Pro Factory subscribers can now align badges to ESCO, the multilingual classification of European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations.

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Oct 5, 2020

Get up to speed with new video tutorials

CanCred has produced a series of video tutorials to help new and current users get the most out of our flexible platform.

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Sep 1, 2020

CanCred's free trial offer for #ONPSE

CanCred is offering a time-limited opportunity to the 30 of the 45 publicly funded post-secondary institutions in Ontario who are not yet CanCred clients:

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Nov 1, 2019

Alternative formats will make CanCred badges more portable and flexible!

Adapted from OpenBadgeFactory.com

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Aug 29, 2019

External Endorsement comes to CanCred

CanCred has achieved another milestone in its exciting roadmap: CanCred Factory now supports external endorsement, following the latest upgrade.

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Mar 19, 2019

CanCred becomes IMS Certified for Open Badges v2.0

CanCred is pleased to announce that we have achieved official certification for Open Badges version 2.0 in all three available categories:

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Mar 14, 2019

Bilingual service in a bilingual country

CanCred has completed the process of becoming a bilingual cloud service for all Canadians:

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Feb 6, 2019

Presentation at IMS Digital Credentials Summit

Don Presant, President of CanCred by Learning Agents, was proud to partner with Michel Singh, CTO, eCampusOntario on a presentation at IMS Global Learning Consortium’s Digital Credentials Summit in Tempe, Arizona. The presentation focused on collaborative approaches to issuing and recognizing badges that leverage the advantages of CanCred technology and eCampusOntario’s network of post-secondary institutions:

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Jan 25, 2019

CanCred Factory Upgrade - Pro Level Features

CanCred Factory was upgraded yesterday to create a new organization subscription level: Pro.

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Apr 23, 2017

CanCred Factory Upgrade - Endorsement and Alignments

CanCred Factory was upgraded this morning to add two exciting new features that implement version 2 of the Open Badges standard.

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Mar 6, 2017

New feature in CanCred Passport - Advertise Badge Opportunities

CanCred Passport has added an exciting new feature! Badge issuing organizations in CanCred Factory can now advertise their badges in Passport’s Gallery section.

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Feb 27, 2017

Waterloo University - Open Badges Keynote Kicks Off Educational Technologies Week

On February 27, Don Presant of Learning Agents, providers of the CanCred.ca Open Badges service, delivered a keynote presentation entitled Recognizing Knowledge & Skills in a Digital Age.

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Feb 20, 2017

CanCred.ca hosts BC Open Badges Forum with KPU

On February 17, CanCred.ca hosted a innovative cross-sectoral workforce design lab in partnership with Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Teaching and Learning Commons.

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Sep 14, 2015

Open Badges – Moving from Further Professional Training to Self-directed Competency Development

Open Badge Factory Academy was launched with this webinar. Eric Rousselle from Discndum welcomed everyone and said a few words about the Academy and its purpose. Omnia’s Esko Lius and Pete Stockley presented a very interesting and successful use case, which sparked a good conversation between the participants.

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