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Bookshop Genres What Counts as Learning: Open Digital Badges for New Opportunities by Sheryl Grant
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  • Genre:EDUCATION
  • SubGenre:Teaching Methods & Materials / Science & Technology
  • Language:English
  • Pages:68
  • eBook ISBN:9780988725539

What Counts as Learning

Open Digital Badges for New Opportunities

by Sheryl Grant

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Overview
This report is an early response to designing badge systems grounded in actual practice. It provides a building block for anyone interested in designing open digital badge systems, and also for educators, policymakers, technologists, humanists, scholars, and administrators who have a stake in how badge systems might impact learning, assessment, and opportunities for lifelong learners.
Description
This report is an early response to designing badge systems grounded in actual practice. It provides a building block for anyone interested in designing open digital badge systems, and also for educators, policymakers, technologists, humanists, scholars, and administrators who have a stake in how badge systems might impact learning, assessment, and opportunities for lifelong learners.
About the author
Sheryl Grant is Director of Social Networking for the HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition and a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science, where she is studying value-driven design, badge system design, technology-mediated social participation, and reputation systems. She is Director of Badge Research at HASTAC and is serving as Research Chair for the Badge Alliance Research Working Group.