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In 2017, the company became a founding member of the IEEE Industry Consortium for Learning Engineering,[39] and announced partnerships with the California Community Colleges System,[40] Georgia Department of Education,[41] and SURFnet.[42][43] The success of the company's Badgr product led to Founder Wayne Skipper being interviewed broadly in the education community,[44][45][46][47][48] as well as Badgr's inclusion in the European Commission Joint Research Centre's 2017 "Blockchain in Education" report.[49] That same year, the company offered digital badges to commemorate The Great American Eclipse,[50] and another product featuring the company's work for partner Cengage Learning won a Codie award.[51]
In 2018, the company expanded the digital badges ecosystem by releasing an open technology standard called Open Pathways,[52][53][54][55] which became a primary component of the Comprehensive Learner Record.[56] That same year, Mozilla announced the retirement of the Mozilla Backpack and the migration of its users to Badgr,[34][57] the company announced a new suite of open source tools for edX,[58] Badgr was selected as the native badging solution for the Canvas Learning Management System,[59] the company announced a 4 year partnership with the community college system of Washington state,[60] and products featuring the company's work for partner Cengage Learning won another 2 Codie awards.[61] Later that year, the company’s EdRec initiative was named a winner of the US Dept of Education Reimagining Higher Education Ecosystem Challenge for its blockchain-based approach to digital transcripts,[56][62] and the company’s work was featured in the book "The Interconnected Individual.”[63][64]
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