The most important characteristic of competency-based education is that it measures learning rather than time. Students progress by demonstrating their competence, which means they prove that they have mastered the knowledge.
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Boy Scouts do it. Video games do it. Sometimes grades aren't enough. What's a teacher to do? Check out this handy guide to using badges in your classroom! Via Gust MEES 
Gust MEES's curator insight,
May 11, 5:54 PM
Clever used they will help learners to achieve higher tasks...
raquel hernandez vallejos's curator insight,
May 12, 3:48 PM
En este artículo podemos ver cómo conseguir ciertos objetivos con nuestros estudiantes, premiándolos digitalmente.
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May 12, 3:50 PM
Interesante como motivación para nuestros alumnos a través de premios digitales. Delete the scoop?
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Moodle's Open Badges plugin. Still in alpha and planned for a Moodle 2.5 release (I think).
Have managed to have a play with it on a friends install and it is AWESOME.
See the other Scoopit entry for details on the documentation. Via gideonwilliams, Let's Learn IT
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Badges provide an alteranate way to demonstrate your skills. Badges can be far more specific and desriptive than grades or tanscripts. At the moment, they won't replace traditional credentials like diplomas and cirtificates. However badges can elaborate on your skllls and are much easier to present as artifacts of learning on an e-portfolio. It's exciting to see Moodle doing work in this area. For an easy to use badge system that is ready to go (and compatible with Mozilla) consider Credly.com. 
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April 14, 10:45 AM
Badges on Moodle, ok gamifying courses here wme come. 
Johannes Maurek's curator insight,
April 16, 2:59 AM
Badgets as a new form of competence-improvement. Also availble in Moodle soon. Very interesting topic! 
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April 22, 5:36 PM
I am finishing a class Games In Learning and Assessment through UW-Stout. The class was a game, the player had to earn both quest and reward badges. It was created in Badgestack. Very cool way to learn.
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By Ahley Naranjo
"For some time now, the education community has discussed and explored how to get out of the standardized-testing rut and make learning enjoyable again. Online games and challenges, real-world work, and point systems have been a few of the ideas kicked around by educators and tech-enthusiasts alike. Earlier this school year, a New York Times article highlighted the benefits of using digital badges to enable students, including those writing their college-admission essays, to demonstrate their knowledge and skills. Via Jim Lerman 
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March 28, 10:16 AM
Great way to incorporate real world learning into the classroom and give students a choice about their learning. Delete the scoop?
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"Hi, I'm very pleased to announce that Totara Learning Solutions (the distributors of the corporate distro of Moodle called TotaraLMS) will be developing an Open Badges solution for Moodle and Mahara." Via Anthony Beal 
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February 10, 10:38 AM
Thanks to @ScottHibberson for pointing this out to me, could be a lot of potential for badges recording achievement in Moodle Delete the scoop?
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Educause Learning Initiative: Badges are digital tokens that appear as icons or logos on a web page or other online venue. Awarded by institutions, organizations, groups, or individuals, badges signify accomplishments such as completion of a project, mastery of a skill, or marks of experience.
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I'm anticipating the announcement at the upcomming EDucause Conference of a new Badge economy that will make it much easier to use this kind of open resource reward in my online classes. I'm ready to try this. Although my graduate students earn an official transcript and a signed certificate when they complete the E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate program, I think adding badges to the mix would help them in their job quest. The folks likely to be impressed with badges are just the people my graduates should be working with. Delete the scoop?
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Badges represent a way to validate learning that takes place outside of the traditional venues. Mozilla leads the badge economy. To get an overview of the process. Delete the scoop?
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Badges. Recognize achievements and foster community engagement. For life. Where, how and when we learn is changing dramatically, and how we get recognized for what we learn is now changing, too.
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Learning Times is out front on open badging. Delete the scoop?
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Badgestack and Longwood U combine forces to offer students a head start on what they need to know to succeed in today’s work force. Delete the scoop?
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Empowering Teachers. Motivating Students. Delete the scoop?
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The Badges for Lifelong Learning competition is seeking ideas for a system to legitimize DIY education. Delete the scoop?
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By Audrey Watters: A number of initiatives and startups are hoping to offers ways to give people some sort of formal(ized) recognition for their informal learning – or at least for the skills they possess for which they don’t have official diplomas or degrees. Among them: Mozilla’s Open Badges project, the social endorsement site Skills.to, the soon-to-launch Degreed, and the open-to-the-public-just-today LearningJar. Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/hack-higher-education/who-will-benefit-badges-and-other-new-forms-credentialing#ixzz20isdHAC9 Delete the scoop?
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Smithsonian Badges inspire students to explore their own ideas and interests online, in school, at home, and across the nation. The quests connect and reward learners of different ages and in different regions as they learn through discovery and collaboration. Rewards include digital badges that students (and teachers) take with them for life! Delete the scoop?
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Last week I attended an online presentation from Learning Times that focused on digital badges for learning and professional enhancement. The session, Badge-based Learning and 21st Century Skills [recording], described "a digital badge ecosystem" that aims to help all kinds of learners capitalize on "living in an age of opportunity for learning, specialization and innovation like none ever seen before." Presenter Jonathan Finkelstein, founder of Learning Times and Director of the BadgeStack project, noted that, "not everything needs to add up to a final grade anymore." Delete the scoop?
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Solid background on badges. Delete the scoop?
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Digital badges appear to becoming the next, "new" thing in education. What follows is a description of digital badges as described by Digital Media and Learning: A digital badge is an online record... Delete the scoop?
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Badges, certificates and new methods for translating skills to credits are challenging traditional views of college degrees. 
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February 26, 4:53 PM
I don't think we are going to see the deeath of the degree, but credentialing could work for professional bodies looking for alternative routes to membership or recognising continuing professional development. Delete the scoop?
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Credly provides simple and powerful ways to issue and display digital badges and credentials for achievements. Credly is available on the web, on mobile devices and through the Credly “Open Credit” API, the most advanced means to integrate credit-issuing into any organization’s existing programs.
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Credly is a new online tool from the thinkers at LearningTimes.org. This is the first truly user friendly, online system for creating digital badges and issuing those badges to acknowledge the special skills and abilities of people working both academic and open resource venues. This is a technology to watch! Delete the scoop?
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These are “a new type of credential being developed by some of the most prominent businesses and learning organizations in the world, including Purdue, Carnegie Mellon, the University of California, the Smithsonian, Intel and Disney-Pixar.”
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If badges will open doors to opportunity and employment I'm all for it. People need a way to validate their experience and learning, and a solid badge economy promises to do just that. This is a growing trend worth watching. News: My sources tell me that Learning Times will be announcing a new badge economy at Educause in February. Keep a sharp eye out! 
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January 27, 1:26 PM
Love the Open Badges movement. My favorite @dajbelshaw works with them for Mozilla. Awesome way to carry credentials. Delete the scoop?
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In this post, we’ll describe the “badged and blended” formula we use in courses for NYC high school students.
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This group is using Badgestack the badge economy created by the clever and inventive folks at Learning Times. This article is well worth a look! Delete the scoop?
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The Tin Can API is an e-learning software specification that allows learning content and learning systems to speak to each other in a manner that records and tracks all types of learning experiences. As we all know, learning can occur in different forms and can happen anywhere (not necessarily through courses hosted on an LMS). Tin Can enables L&D professionals the ability to easily track, quantify and share data gathered from various learning experiences.
It’s great for tracking: Mobile Learning Serious Games Simulations Informal Learning Real World Performance
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This API could be a significant element in open education, badging, and non-accredited learning. Delete the scoop?
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Information-age credentials may be the first serious competitor to traditional degrees since college-going became the norm. Delete the scoop?
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Alex Halavais, who teaches a master’s program on interactive communications at Quinnipiac University, began implementing digital badges in place of a traditional grading scale last spring. The new system enables him—and his students’ prospective employers—to better gauge the specific skills his students master. Delete the scoop?
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As interest in badges continues to increase, it occurs to me that in their passion for gameification, innovation, and outright reinvention, many in the field are overlooking the place where badges make the most sense of all – the formal higher education institution. There are at least two high-level reasons why higher education is the perfect place for badging.
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