I’m wondering if colleagues in education have been watching the #OpenBadges space? I’ve long been interested in certifying students as the develop transferrable skills in our classes (e.g. visual communication, web design, survey design, etc.) using badges they could deploy alongside their diploma. There’s so much EdTech distractions around monetising the concept and it seemed to stall some years ago. Just wondering if there’s a good option that I haven’t noticed.
One example here: https://openbadges.org. But not sure if this has been used in (non-monetised ways in) Higher Ed?
The whole field seems ripe for federated open access disruption. Reminiscent of DNS and SSL cert provision, trying to enclose digital commons by glueing revenue generation to FOSS technologies. Universities have expertise and infrastructure to selfhost and develop cert auth, creative talent for visual design. It seems absurd to pay edtech startups to develop and even more ironic to squeeze tuition paying students to “certify’ their learning rather than approach as value-add.