Doug Belshaw thinks aloud after Alan Levine's post questioning open badges. The claim being made for badges is that "unlike LinkedIn profiles or CV's, they're a bunch of evidence rather than a bunch of claims." But what's evidence? The evidence might be whatever's in the 'evidence' field provided by the open badge issuer, or it might be something we can show as evidence for the badge. But surely we need more than that. "Being able to provide trusted evidence is a gamechanger when it comes to credentialing," says Belshaw. "If we find more useful metaphors for people that 'certificates' then we're likely to see different kinds of credentials — and hopefully with many more pointing to evidence than we have now!"
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