Nice overview of the potential of badges to hack education, disrupt how folks demonstrate their achievements, even at the higher education level, and more
Take a look at how Lipscomb University is thinking about competency-based learning and badges -- a reimagining of how skills can be a currency in the work force.
A rich example of how badge learning can be implemented to support authentic, project-based, student-interest driven learning. This is a program at UC Davis. What pieces of their program could be applicable to a grades 6-12 setting, where badges offer feedback, learning milestones, and open up spaces of possibilities for learning?
Love the structure of this competency and mastery-based program at Coastal Carolina University. Secondary schools could use the rigor outlined here to prepare our students for college and beyond.