Badges Are NOT Assessments

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I believe we need to be very careful in the way we talk about badges. Badges are not assessments. A badge is something you receive after you successfully complete an assessment. The actual assessment could take the form of generic multiple-choice questions, a performance assessment, a portfolio evaluation, a construct-aligned bundle of context-dependent items, or … Read more

On the Term “MOOC”

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Audrey has a nice piece today on problems with the term MOOC. I’ve always passionately hated the MOOC acronym, mostly because of one of the words behind it. There was never anything massive about what we were doing until the Stanford AI class came along. Nothing that has come out of the original group (Wiley, … Read more

Why Open Education Matters

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The Why Open Education Matters video competition closed today. Here’s our submission, which we got in just under the gun. I wrote the script and did the voice recording and editing. Degreed sponsored the animation, which was done by Mike Moon and produced by Haugen Creative. (Degreed is a new company I’ve co-founded with David … Read more