The advent of digital badges might be an important part of the answer to several problems whose solutions seem to compete for resources: education debt, narrowing of education's mission, and disproportionate access to quality education. Adding complexity, these issues are often perceived to align with opposing visions for education. The problems are pitched as having mutually exclusive solutions - a fix for one is understood to exacerbate one of the others . . .
Read MoreIt is, by no means, a brand new notion, but the idea of credentialing competence (often referred to as competency based education, CBE) is rapidly advancing on K-12 and higher education, as both disruption and opportunity. It seems likely a significant portion of the education market, especially for undergraduate education as well as . . .
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