Data Management for Serious Badging - A conversation with Eric Korb
Channel: Center for Online Innovation in Learning
Date: 2014-09-08

Data Management for Serious Badging
Originally Held: January 24, 2014

Eric Korb was a Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Officer in higher education, was the founder of LawyerLinks and Webinars.com (he had a registered trademark on the word “webinar”), and is now CEO of Accreditrust a new company designed to provide digital credential curation and validation services for digital badges that represent significant learning accomplishments.

This is a dynamic time in the history of higher education. Online Innovations, economic forces, politics, and social factors seem to indicate that potentially important changes are ahead. Competency-based learning, prior learning assessment, and digital badges appear likely to replace grades, transcripts and diplomas. Digital badges are clickable images that represent learning and reveal basic information and links to even more information when they are clicked. When a badge is clicked, information on the organization or person who issued the badge and the criteria met to earn the badge are revealed, and links to the evidence submitted (papers and/or videos, for example) and the evaluation process can also be provided. Many predict that in the near future learners will be assembling collections of digital badges earned from higher education organizations and other sources to represent their abilities, and that the power of “the degree” will be diminished.

During this COIL Conversation, Eric, Kyle Peck, and a diverse group of participants discuss competency-based learning, digital badges, and the systems that might be put in place to support a new learning ecosystem.

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