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Arguably, traditional methods of assessment, such as numeric marks, are unable to assess and reflect the full range of competencies that students hold (Bassett, 2015; Robinson & Aronica, 2016) 
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When the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted two patents last year for creating, managing and tracking digital credentials, it raised ne
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Jacqui Kelly's insight:
An interesting way of using badges to recognise credentials/qualifications of the military.
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"EPIC 2020, stands for the proposition that the education of the world will change dramatically for the better during this decade. The two movies that follow and this site hope to provide tools that shatter the paradigm that the future will be anything like the past as well as facilitate discussion and accelerate actions to bring about the transformation of the education of the world"
KF: with the rise of the MOOC, open access, badges, personal learning networks and other shifts in the ways people access/create learning opportunities this site offers some challenging vision of what may lie ahead.
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Creating a taxonomy that can be embraced across the field of digital badging is critical for shared meaning, transparency, and transferability.
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Digital badges are validated indicators of skills or competencies, often representing the completion of a microcredential.
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"A number of initiatives and startups are hoping to offers ways to give people some sort of formal(ized) recognition for their informal learning – or at least for the skills they possess for which they don’t have official diplomas or degrees. Among them: Mozilla’s Open Badges project, the social endorsement site Skills.to, the soon-to-launch Degreed, and the open-to-the-public-just-today LearningJar."
KF: There is certainly a growing interest in examining the possibilities of these new forms of recognising learning. Whether they will need to address assurance of learning concerns remains to be seen. Outside of academia and some of the accredited professions formal qualifications may not be as important as some higher education proponents may suggest.
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