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Higher education institutions are abuzz with the concept of Open Badges. 
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Alfredo Corell's insight:
Como no podía ser de otro modo, los MOOC, la educación on-line, las redes sociales, la gamificación y las acreditaciones (como badges) son las tendencias educativas mas potentes de lo que llevamos de 2013!!!
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Amy McQuigge’s prompt How can colleges and universities use badges? is a lot more slope of enlightenment and a little less peak of inflated expectations when it comes to badges in higher ed (Looking at you, major media sources.)
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Open Badges are online indicators of skills learned inside or outside the classroom. In order to understand how badges might be used to support learning and development in higher education, Ian Glo... Via Ana Cristina Pratas
James Jandebeur's curator insight,
November 22, 2013 9:48 AM
Now you can earn game achievements in learning new things. Considering how popular this simple idea seems to be in gaming, it should be effective. Some form of feedback, especially if it is immediate and pleasing in some way, is usually helpful. 
Dawn Wright's curator insight,
November 27, 2013 5:35 PM
I don't know if this will replace paid credits, but it is a start toward a new paradiam 
Paul Avila's curator insight,
November 30, 2013 9:57 PM
This is an interesting idea to use in the classroom. It would motivate students to improve their skills to achieve these badges. I would suggest implementing these with some incentive system so that students pursue these badges instead of earning them passively as useless labels. These badges can be useful to track progress of historical thinking skills.
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Boy Scouts do it. Video games do it. Sometimes grades aren't enough. What's a teacher to do? Check out this handy guide to using badges in your classroom!
Alfredo Corell's insight:
based on militar skills, rebuilt by scouts and now again in use by video-games
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For higher education institutions interested in keeping pace, establishing a digital ecosystem around badges to recognize college learning, skill development and achievement is less a threat and more an opportunity. Used properly, Open Badge systems help motivate, connect, articulate and make transparent the learning that happens inside and outside classrooms during a student’s college years.