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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.
markuos morley

YouTube - David Wiley's Keynote on Open Education - 5 views

www.youtube.com/watch

education youtube david wiley OER resource Openness David_wiley opened openeducation

shared by markuos morley on 10 Oct 11 - Cached
  • markuos morley on 10 Oct 11
     
    David Wiley 2009 Keynote on Open Education (50mins)
  • tim mcnamara on 12 Oct 11
     
    Thanks marcuos. This is more good info on Wiley's approach. Well worth watching.
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