Digital badges are receiving a growing amount of attention and are beginning to disrupt the norms of what it means to earn credit or be credentialed. Badges allow the sharing of evidence of skills and knowledge acquired through a wide range of life activity, at a granular level, and at a pace that keeps up with individuals who are always learningeven outside the classroom. As such, entities not traditionally in the degree-granting realmsuch as museums, associations, online communities, and even individual expertsare now issuing credit for achievement they can uniquely recognize. At the same time, higher education institutions are rethinking the type and size of activities worthy of official recognition. From massive open online courses (MOOCs), service learning, faculty development, and campus events to new ways of structuring academic programs and courses or acknowledging the granular or discrete skills that these programs explore, there's much for colleges and universities to consider in the wide open frontier called badging.
Presenters
Jonathan Finkelstein
CEO, Credly, LLC
Owen Guthrie
Instructional Designer, eLearning and Distance Education, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Daniel LaSota
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Christopher Lott
Susan Manning
Beth Nettles
Manager, Learning Content Development, University of Central Florida
Kelvin Thompson
Vice Provost for Online Strategy and Teaching Innovation, University of Louisville