{"id":7513,"date":"2013-09-01T10:49:52","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T17:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/?p=7513"},"modified":"2013-09-01T10:49:52","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T17:49:52","slug":"badges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/2013\/09\/01\/badges\/","title":{"rendered":"Badges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An approach to alternative credentials,\u00a0<strong>badges<\/strong>,\u00a0are digital tokens that appear as icons or logos on a web page or other online venue.\u00a0Awarded by institutions, organizations, groups, or individuals,\u00a0badges signify accomplishments\u00a0such as completion of a project, mastery of a skill, or marks of experience. Learners fulfill the issuer-specific criteria to earn the badge by attending classes, passing an exam or review, or completing other activities, and a grantor verifies that the specifications have been met and awards the badge. Numerous groups, organizations, community projects, and web entities currently issue badges, and they are gaining currency in higher education as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Opportunity Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although many details remain for badges to be broadly accepted, they represent a\u00a0different approach to credentials, one that places the focus on individual students and their learning accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prediction Source(s)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.educause.edu\/library\/resources\/7-things-you-should-know-about-badges\"><strong>Educause \u2013 7 Things<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An approach to alternative credentials,\u00a0badges,\u00a0are digital tokens that appear as icons or logos on a web page or other online venue.\u00a0Awarded by institutions, organizations, groups, or individuals,\u00a0badges signify accomplishments\u00a0such as completion of a project, mastery of a skill, or marks of experience. Learners fulfill the issuer-specific criteria to earn the badge by attending classes, passing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14967],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7514,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513\/revisions\/7514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}