ITHAKA Sustainable Scholarship presentation. New York, NY. October 15, 2012

1. Credentialing: Diploma, Certificate, or Badge?
Sheryl Grant
HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation
Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition
ITHAKA Sustainable Scholarship
October 15, 2012
New York, NY

2. Credentialing: Diploma, Certificate, or Badge?
Sheryl Grant
HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation
Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition
ITHAKA Sustainable Scholarship
October 15, 2012
New York, NY

3. Unpacking Badges

4. Unpacking Badges
ITHAKA
2012

5. Unpacking Badges
{
"badge": {
"version": "0.0.1",
"name": "ITHAKA Sustainable Scholarship Learning
Path",
"image": "https://ISSConfPart//img/index/badge.png",
"description": "ITHAKA Alternative Assessment",
"criteria": "http://ITHAKA.org/en-US/",
“description”: “presented at a scholarly conference”,
"issuer": {
"origin": "http://ithaka-badges.org/",
"name": "ITHAKA Sustainable Scholarship",
"org": "Badge Authority",
"contact": "person@ithaka.org"
"recipient": "sheryl.grant@email.edu", # not valid as of beta
release
}
}
}

6. Unpacking Badges
{
"badge": {
"version": "0.0.1",
"name": "ITHAKA Sustainable Scholarship Learning
Path",
"image": "https://ISSConfPart//img/index/badge.png",
"description": "ITHAKA Alternative Assessment",
"criteria": "http://ITHAKA.org/en-US/",
“description”: “presented at a scholarly conference”,
"issuer": {
"origin": "http://ithaka-badges.org/",
"name": "ITHAKA Sustainable Scholarship",
"org": "Badge Authority",
"contact": "person@ithaka.org"
"recipient": "sheryl.grant@email.edu", # not valid as of beta
release
}
}
}

7. Unpacking Badges

8. Unpacking Badges

9. Unpacking Badges

10. Unpacking Badges

11. Unpacking Badges

12. Unpacking Badges

13. Threats & Opportunities
“Who needs a university anymore?”
“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

14. Threats & Opportunities

15. Threats & Opportunities

16. 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

17. Threats & Opportunities
“Institutions will always try to preserve the
problem to which they are the solution.” –Clay Shirky

18. Threats & Opportunities
“Institutions will always try to preserve the
problem to which they are the solution.” –Clay Shirky
vs.

19. 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

20. 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

21. Potential for Badges
Platforms:
o ForAllBadges*
o Badg.us*
o BadgeStack*
o Purdue Passport*
o BadgeForge
o Youtopia
o P2PU