Journal
INFORMATION SOCIETY
Volume 32, Issue 2, Pages 117-129Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2016.1130500
Keywords
digital badges; open badges; education; connected learning; credentialing; technology; Assessment
Funding
- MacArthur Foundation
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Open digital badges are Web-enabled tokens of learning and accomplishment. They operate in an environment of explicit (rather than tacit) trust; open badges provide issuers the ability to include specific claims and associate those claims with detailed supporting evidence. Earners are encouraged to share their badges over social networks, e-mail, and websites, and the information they contain is expected to circulate readily in these spaces. Building upon current concepts and theories from the Information Sciences and Learning Sciences, this article shows how the informational affordances of digital badges are transforming education and learning more generally, and more particularly by transcending conventional paradigms of academic credentialing and educational assessment.
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