Digital Badges

I recently attended a Webinar where the presenters had a series of badges displayed beside their names. I found that a great way to display to the workshop participants some of the accreditations of the various presenters.

I think it would be nice to give our students some of these badges to demostrate completion of assignments in modules and/or units of learning. I will discuss this with my learners this fall.

What are your thoughts about badges?

Here is the link to the article:

Education Week: 'Digital Badges' Would Represent Students' Skill Acquisition

http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2012/06/13/03badges.h05.html