We’ve kicked off the Taxonomy Working Group for Open Badges with some great discussions. It’s a challenging topic that’s been bubbling in the Open Badges community for some time. The power of using the specification to connect digital…

Background: The Open Badges specification describes a method for packaging information about accomplishments, embedding it into portable image files as digital badges, and establishing an infrastructure for its validation. This data should makes it possible to verify the…

The Combined Possibilities Part

This post is the third in a series of five blog posts designed to explore, inform, and encourage public discussions about the possibilities, opportunities, and…

Originally published at www.edsurge.com on May 12, 2016.

When you hear the word blockchain does it make your head spin? Wall Street analysts and fintech experts claim it could make traditional banking obsolete; Airbnb just…