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Credentials: not finished changing

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.” — Benjamin Franklin

From the gold standard to the floating exchange rate
The world of credentialing is evolving. Degrees have long been considered the basic unit of educational currency. But it…

Tom Vander ArkMar 154 min read

Building Micro-credential Momentum

Dr. Brent Maddin, Relay GSE Provost, notes two scenarios:

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W. Ian O'ByrneNov 6, 2015

Mozilla is Doing a Hack Job on Open Badges

Kerri Lemoie

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A thoughtful, measured, powerful piece by an expert in the field. Great work Kerri.

I hope this brings about real change. Who/what will step up?

Philipp SchmidtFeb 101 min read

Welcome to BadgeChain

Carla Casilli

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Hey Carla — Great to see you experimenting in the badges/blockchain space. We’ve been doing a lot of thinking how this could work, built a set of basic tools that let you issue, share, and verify a badge-like credential using the Bitcoin blockchain, and are working working with Learning Machine to integrate it into their suite of tools for…

Beth Simone NoveckJun 22, 20151 min read

Video-Based Learning is Helping to Democratize Education

Today Google is promoting the educational benefits of YouTube in a Twitter advertising campaign. Video, when coupled with credentials and certificates a la Khan Academy, may be making it possible for people to pick up new skills, to…

Kacy QuaMar 27, 20158 min read

Reaction to Zappos’ “Double Down” Offer for Self Organization

What happens when passion, purpose and meaning collide with education and employment?

Don PresantMar 79 min read

Recognizing Self-Directed Learners with Open Badge eCredentials

As a new blogger but longtime user of Slideshare, my post builds on a presentation about PLEs that I delivered at ePIC 2015 on behalf of MSF Canada with Dominique Giguère of Currents Group. The key slide (39) is here …

alphabeta sociologistJul 7, 20153 min read

How to make OpenBadges Relevant and Useful — A Brief Rant

Going from “Badges, we don’t need no stinking badges” to “Yay! Awesome universal learning credentials”

Anyone can issue badges for anything. Aren’t degrees and diplomas basically mega-badges — representing…

Doug BelshawNov 2, 2015

Certificates, Reputation, and the Blockchain

MIT Media Lab

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Great minds! I think there’s huge potential with blockchain-powered credentials. I wrote this speculative piece back in March: http://dmlcentral.net/peering-deep-into-future-of-educational-credentialing/

Really glad MIT is experimenting and collaborating in this area – and I think Open Badges is a great platform to build from. :)

Brent ThomasNov 22, 20152 min read

Recruitment for Credentialing

Why… Why is it my responsibility to recruit new members for a credentialing body? And, why do I need to be rewarded for it? Can’t the credentialing organization themselves appropriately market their offerings to people that should be interested in holding their credentials?