{"id":80217,"date":"2022-04-19T14:20:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T18:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=80217"},"modified":"2022-04-19T14:21:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T18:21:05","slug":"instructures-acquisition-of-concentric-sky-bringing-some-changes-to-canvas-lms-users-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/04\/19\/instructures-acquisition-of-concentric-sky-bringing-some-changes-to-canvas-lms-users-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"Instructure&#8217;s Acquisition of Concentric Sky Bringing Some Changes to Canvas LMS Users [Kelly]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thejournal.com\/articles\/2022\/04\/instructure-acquisition-of-concentric-sky-means-canvas-users-getting-access-to-badges.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Instructure&#8217;s Acquisition of Concentric Sky Bringing Some Changes to Canvas LMS Users<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from thejournal.com by Rhea Kelly<br \/>\n<em>Badgr Digital Micro-Credentialing Platform to be Rebranded as Canvas Badges, Optional &#8216;Pro&#8217; Upgrades Coming<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Instructure\u00a0said today its acquisition of\u00a0Concentric Sky, maker of the\u00a0Badgr\u00a0digital credentialing platform, is complete, and the basic Badgr functions will be integrated into Canvas and rebranded as Canvas Badges.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nCanvas Credentials will enable institutions to &#8220;seamlessly award badges that verify and track academic achievements, including competency-based education,&#8221; the company explained in a news announcement. With the stackable, shareable credentials, students will be able to track their personalized learning journeys and carry proof of their competencies and skills development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instructure&#8217;s Acquisition of Concentric Sky Bringing Some Changes to Canvas LMS Users &#8212; from thejournal.com by Rhea Kelly Badgr Digital Micro-Credentialing Platform to be Rebranded as Canvas Badges, Optional &#8216;Pro&#8217; Upgrades Coming Excerpts: Instructure\u00a0said today its acquisition of\u00a0Concentric Sky, maker of the\u00a0Badgr\u00a0digital credentialing platform, is complete, and the basic Badgr functions will be integrated into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,115,302,389,823,533,3,855,321,214,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cmslms","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-competency-based-learning-education","category-credentialing","category-experimentation","category-higher-education","category-skills","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80219,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80217\/revisions\/80219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}