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WGU Audit: Likely impacts for fragile movement of competency-based education -
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Exploring the Effect of Confusion in Discussion Forums of Massive Open Online Courses
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An investigation into the perspectives of providers and learners on MOOC accessibility
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A Unique Training for a Unique Talent Integrating a MOOC into blended learning approach
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The #1 Most Important Question to Answer in Your Digital Badge System Design
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Avoiding pointless (Open Badges-related) blockchain projects
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From blockchain to BadgeChain (1) – BadgeChain – Medium
- Open Badges are trust statements that could be combined to create chains and networks of trust. The information on how the members of the network trust each other can be used as the basis to establish trustworthy transactions
- Blockchains on the other hand are a means to establish trustworthy transactions even if those engaged in transactions do not trust each other.
- The blockchain technology was designed to eliminate the human factor from making the decision on whether a transaction is trustworthy or not.
- trustworthy transactions are possible without the involvement of any trusted authority (a bank, a notary or a registrar) and despite the fact that the parties involved do not trust each other.
- With the BadgeChain, trust is a property emerging from the participants’ behaviour, with blockchain trust is a property that ignores participants behaviour.
- One builds dynamic multidimensional networks i, the other an ever growing unidimensional chain. One is able to add and delete data (withdraw trust), the other can only add data (write only).
- One has emerged from the world of informal education, the other from the formal world of international business and finance.
- blockchains, even in their infant stage, are far superior to the current Open Badge technology for storing academic credentials. Moreover it is an opportunity for institutions to reassess their power as
- credentialing authorities.
- The integration model is a means for the Open Badge practitioners to continue business as usual while exploiting the unique properties of blockchains to correct some of the shortcomings of the current Open Badge Infrastructure.
- integration is the ability create fully trustworthy and easy to verify records.
- Service providers (e.g. issuing platforms) will be free to concentrate on added value services rather than trying to improve an idiosyncratic technology.
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Saturday, October 14, 2017
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