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James Glanville on 04 Oct 11

Jennifer Dick shared this on the TIE2012 Facebook page. Looks like a great forum to check out on topics relevant to T-561. Topical groups included "Badges for LifeLong Learning," "Pedagogy", and "Semantic Web." check it out.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Jennifer Dick shared this on the TIE2012 Facebook page. Looks like a great forum to check out on topics relevant to T-561. Topical groups included "Badges for LifeLong Learning," "Pedagogy", and "Semantic Web." check it out.</div>

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Stephen Bresnick on 05 Oct 11

James- I had a really interesting conversation about badges for lifelong learning yesterday, and as I'm sure you know it's a controversial topic, especially among academics who resent the premise that people need extrinsic motivators like badges as incentives to be lifelong learners. One major advantage to badges, according the the people I was talking with, is that they can be used as a kind of shorthand validation of somebody's credentials. So, for example, if you wanted to hire a freelancer to build you a website, write you some content, or re-tile your kitchen, you would be able to get a quick idea of how good they were by seeing what kinds of badges they had earned. I found this to be an interesting application to the badge system, whereas I was quite against the idea before of incentivizing lifelong learning. What does everyone think of HASTAC badges?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">James- I had a really interesting conversation about badges for lifelong learning yesterday, and as I'm sure you know it's a controversial topic, especially among academics who resent the premise that people need extrinsic motivators like badges as incentives to be lifelong learners. One major advantage to badges, according the the people I was talking with, is that they can be used as a kind of shorthand validation of somebody's credentials. So, for example, if you wanted to hire a freelancer to build you a website, write you some content, or re-tile your kitchen, you would be able to get a quick idea of how good they were by seeing what kinds of badges they had earned. I found this to be an interesting application to the badge system, whereas I was quite against the idea before of incentivizing lifelong learning. What does everyone think of HASTAC badges?</div>

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