Activities for Open Assessment and Open Badges

The value of alternative pathways to credit like PLA and alternative credentials like badges are socially determined - they are only as valuable as people believe they are. For example, if employers will not hire people who earn credits through PLA or who demonstrate mastery with badges rather than transcripts, then other people are likely to place lower value on these alternatives.

What needs to happen for open assessment and open badges to become more widely accepted? How do these factors differ from what needs to happen to make them more widely available? Are availability and acceptance in a chicken-and-egg relationship? If so, how would you go about trying to increase them together?

Remember - to submit (aka share) your work all you have to do is publish your blog post!

Also: Spend some time searching Google for videos, tutorials, and other information about open badges. Bookmark what you find on Delicious Links to an external site. and tag it using the tags "ioe13" and "openbadges" (without the quotation marks). See what others have tagged here Links to an external site..