by Katie Blot, Blackboard Blog
Blackboard is a founding member of The Badge Alliance, a new network of organizations with a primary focus to grow, sustain and further promote an open badging ecosystem. Digital badges are flexible, open, and portable symbols of an accomplishment, skill, competency, or interest. Learners earn badges from many different types of providers—often via blended or fully online courses—when they complete specific criteria designed to show competency in a given area. Badge achievements can be added to online resumes, social media profiles, personal websites, and job sites so that the knowledge learners have acquired can become—literally and visibly—part of their identities. Digital badging has risen as a “common currency” that transcends multiple learning venues, offering the ability to demonstrate knowledge acquired from a variety of sources such as MOOCs, professional development courses and workplace training and allows students to display their mastery in skills no matter where they were acquired.
http://blog.blackboard.com/shaping-future-education-founding-member-badge-alliance/
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