This report is an early response to designing badge systems grounded in actual practice. It provides a building block for anyone interested in designing open digital badge systems, and also for educators, policymakers, technologists, humanists, scholars, and administrators who have a stake in how badge systems might impact learning, assessment, and opportunities for lifelong learners.
If you are interested in digital badges, this is the place to start. The documentation is excellent in its quality, its pertinence and its completeness. The writing is clear and direct with enough style and judiciously chosen quotations to make it quite interesting. Informed by HASTAC.org initiatives and perspectives, this book is superb.
This is the future of education. Everyone should have at least a causal understanding of what Digital Badges are, how they work, and how they might enhance current learning efforts.