Changes

'''The right badges'''

*What skills should be assessed? Who decides?

*Are some skills better left unassessed?

'''External influences'''

*How much influence should outside stakeholders, such as employers, have on badges?

*Should they be able to design assessments and badges that are relevant to them?

'''Granularity'''

*What's the right level of granularity for individual badges?

* For example, the HTML5 badge recognizes mastery of the entire language. Should there be HTML tag-level badges as well?

'''Badge lifetime and evolution'''

*Should badges expire?

*What's the best way to deal with skills that need to be refreshed or renewed?

'''Motivation'''

*How does introducing badges affect learners' motivations?

*If learners were already intrinsically motivated, how do we avoid "crowding out" those motivations with an extrinsic badge system?

'''Gaming and Validity'''

*For any system with value, some people will inevitably try to cheat or "game" the system.

*How will people game the system? How much will they do so?

'''Formal learning'''

*How badges translate to more traditional learning environments?

*What's required to make traditional schools and institutions value and recognize badges?

*Can we meet those requirements without requiring more fundamentally changes?