We Do, In Fact, Need Some (Non-Stinking) Badges
Kevin Carey,
The Quick,
May 18, 2011
I agree with Kevin Carey basically never. But he touches on something that has been a long time in coming, open credential systems. An analogy makes the point. "The bar exam is an open badge. It's an independent assessment that, in theory, anyone can take, based on a distinct body of knowledge and skills determined by a professional guild outside of higher education." Given the existence of an independent assessment system, there is no reason a person would have to undergo training at a registered institution. We "are beginning to form an entire ecosystem for teaching and crediting human knowledge and skill, one that exists entirely outside the traditional colleges and universities that use their present monopoly on the credentialing franchise." The trick is to avoid having the existing monopoly replaced with a new corporate McMonopoly.
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