From Stephen Downes' newsletter to your screen, I present you Digital Badges Turn 10—So What? It's a thorough but quick overview on the merits of digital badging both for academic programs as well as team development within a professional working environment. Who doesn't love flair?
On a perspective with more gravitas, badges can also be seen as important step toward creating a job economy based on skills rather than more visible demographics that tend to cloud our views when making hiring decisions.
And like a mythical sword in the stone, digital badges have just been waiting for the right hands to let them do their magic. Those of us in gatekeeping positions need to do only slightly more than stay out of the way and let badges get to work making the world a better place, where opportunities are more often matched to people based on the needs of all stakeholders, and in ways that are blind to factors such as race, gender, and last name.
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