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markuos morley

iterating toward openness - 2 views

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David_wiley blog opensource iterating learning education david wiley

shared by markuos morley on 26 Sep 11 - Cached
  • One of the areas ripest for innovation is alternative certification of informal learning. Hence, the recent excitement about badges. Badges have incredible potential for providing a viable alternative to the traditional system of credits most universities are tied to by accreditors. It seems to me that there is a critical need for someone to demonstrate that badges are a viable alternative to the traditional accreditation process.
  • However, because the gold standard for learning credentials is acceptability by employers, any meaningful badges demonstration project will have to operate in this space.
  • We want to create a collection of badges that a top employer, like Google, will publicly recognize as “equivalent experience.” This goes straight for the jugular, demonstrating that badges are a viable alternative to formal university education.
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  • The bolded items above really represent one version (and certainly not the only one) of the complete package – open content, open learning support, and open badges that help you demonstrate competence to an employer.
  • - An initial list of OER (e.g., OLI courses) and Q/A services (e.g., StackOverflow.com or OpenStudy) which will help individuals develop the skills necessary to obtain the badges
  • • Combine these and other business models to generate enough revenue so that (1) the marking service can be free in addition to all the badge related materials being openly licensed and (2) employers will respect and recognize the badges resulting from the process.
  • If a digital artifact released under a CC BY license is posted on a public website it would qualify as an open educational resource for everyone with internet access. However, if a teacher downloaded a copy of the OER and placed it inside a learning management system it would suddenly cease to be an open educational resource – even though the resource hadn’t changed.
  • The efficacy ideal is not realizable in practice. Intuitively we would want the ideal OER to support the educational goals of every user, and some definitions limit OER to “high-quality” materials. However quality, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. A resource considered very high quality by an English speaking undergraduate might be very low quality for an English speaking primary school student or a Spanish speaking undergraduate.
  • While everyone wants the OER they use to be high quality for them, it is meaningless to talk about OER being “high quality” without simultaneous reference to the user.
  • markuos morley on 10 Oct 11
     
    David Wiley's Blog
Tai Arnold

digital digs: Welcome to badge world - 5 views

www.alex-reid.net/...welcome-to-badge-world.html

badges assessment credentialing #change11

shared by Tai Arnold on 19 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Colleges are filled with students who could give a damn about learning but desperately need that credential.
  • Then it's all about the badges. My kids can just give up on ever having a single moment of joy in their lives. Even if they were going to enjoy something, how can they when they've already committed to this transactional experience instead?
  • The commodification of learning was already quite clear in the Reagan era when we stopped thinking of higher education as a social good and instead defined it as an individual's investment in his/her human capital. 
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  • Anyone can open their own diploma mill, err I mean badge-selling operation? Of course not. Badges would have to be accredited by someone.
  • If you want to get a badge though, that's going to cost.
  • I think the presence of a badge could actually be a detriment to an otherwise genuine learning experience.
  • ]The whole point of education organisations adopting elearning is to cut costs. They are not doing it to improve education standards. They say it's to educate more. But we know this is a smoke screen. Bean-counters run universities and colleges just like they run commercial companies.For example, The Briish Council is planning to move into distance learning big time. 10,000s of new students. Their reasons (am I #cynic) won't be to improve educational outcomes (mostly English language teaching) but to get more qualifed teachers for for their bucks.
  • lrcruz2 on 19 Sep 11
     
    Thank you for compiling this info and posting for us all. I believe this is an interesting way to engage the learner and increase their extrinsic motivation to learn. I don't see elearning as a way to cut costs but rather a way to expand the reach of learning. Learning on line is different from face to fact and therefore it's possible that this commodification of learning is necessary as a result of these changing times.
Allan Quartly

https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/b/b1/OpenBadges-Working-Paper_092011.pdf - 1 views

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badges open mozilla education Change11

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  • Allan Quartly on 27 Dec 11
     
    Discussion paper about Open Badges by Mozilla
Tai Arnold

"Or Equivalent" | iterating toward openness - 2 views

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#change11 badges MOOC

shared by Tai Arnold on 23 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • The point is that there isn’t currently a very good way to show you know what you’re doing other than to have a branded piece of paper that claims you do.
  • Tai Arnold on 23 Sep 11
     
    Badges as alternative to sheepskin -- will employers go there?
tim mcnamara

The Primary Challenge for the OER Movement | iterating toward openness - 4 views

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shared by tim mcnamara on 12 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • 1. The Complete and Utter Lack of Assessment in the OER Space.
  • The vast majority of OER in the world do not include any assessments.
  • some people in the field need to turn their attention to the creation of Open Assessment Resources (OAR).
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  • The work on the Open Badge Infrastructure is only slightly encouraging with regard to this challenge.
  • However, we can’t credential (responsibly) without assessments, and in the midst of all the excitement about badges I’ve yet to hear of any novel (or even uninteresting) work on the underlying assessments themselves
  • Given the OAR acronym, users of OER are literally up a creek without a paddle. And will be until we start making some progress on the OAR issue.
Tai Arnold

'Harnessing America's Wasted Talent': You Don't Need a Weatherman….. - 0 views

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badges assessment credentialing #change11

shared by Tai Arnold on 28 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • n short, there is activity across the entire spectrum of learning, from pre-engineered and self-paced to open sourced and self-directed with more conventional models in between. All are enhanced and scalable as never before by the web and web-enabled technology.
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