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ITHAKA Sustainable Scholarship presentation. New York, NY. October 15, 2012
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Credentialing: Diploma, Certificate, or Badge?
Sheryl Grant HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation
Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition
ITHAKA Sustainable Scholarship October 15, 2012
New York, NY
Credentialing: Diploma, Certificate, or Badge?
Sheryl Grant HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation
Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition
ITHAKA Sustainable Scholarship October 15, 2012
New York, NY
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ITHAKA 2012
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"issuer": { "origin": "http://ithaka-badges.org/", "name": "ITHAKA Sustainable Scholarship", "org": "Badge Authority", "contact": "[email protected]" "recipient": "[email protected]", # not valid as of beta release } } }
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Threats & Opportunities
“Employers look at degrees because it’s a quick way to evaluate all 300 people who apply for a job. But as soon as there’s some other mechanism that can play that role as well as a degree, the jig is up on the monopoly of degrees.”
David Wiley
“Who needs a university anymore?”
Threats & Opportunities
Threats & Opportunities
Threats & Opportunities • What if higher ed lost its grip on the credential business?
Huffington Post, September 23, 2011 • Forget the college degree, earn digital badges instead
CBS Moneywatch, October 3, 2011 • Credentials, the next generation
New York Times, November 4, 2011 • Badges earned online pose challenge to traditional college diplomas
Chronicle of Higher Education, January 8, 2012 • Digital badges threaten colleges’ monopoly on college credentials
US News, January 20, 2012 • Why get a pricey diploma when badges tell employers more?
Forbes, January 26, 2012 • Beyond the college degree, online educational badges
New York Times, March 4, 2012
www.scoop.it/badges-for-lifelong-learning
Threats & Opportunities
“Institutions will always try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” –Clay Shirky
Threats & Opportunities
“Institutions will always try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” –Clay Shirky
vs.
Potential for Badges
Conversations and Collections:
o Badges in Higher Ed Group on HASTAC.org o Questions about badges in higher ed o Badges for Lifelong Learning on Scoop.it o Badges and higher ed articles on Scoop.it o Mozilla’s Open Badges o #dmlbadges and #openbadges on Twitter
Potential for Badges
Reading:
• Not just degrees • Colleges use digital badges to replace traditional grading • Seven things you should know about badges • A future full of badges
Potential for Badges
Platforms:
o ForAllBadges* o Badg.us* o BadgeStack* o Purdue Passport* o BadgeForge o Youtopia o P2PU
