Drumbeat/Badges/Claims

• Online badges can provide more meaningful credentials than traditional grades and degrees
• In the learning of the future, online peer assessment will replace face to face expert assessment

• Badges are a more meaningful credential than grades (or perhaps even degrees).
• Badges are positive motivators for learning
• Online assessment can replace in-person assessment.
• Online assessment can replace in-person, expert assessment. (from Gunner at P2PU assessment workshop)
• Badges that are peer-based assessment recognitions can be just as meaningful as ones that are expert assessment recognitions. (How do we rephrase this?)
• An appropriately designed badge system could replace formal curriculum
• Anybody should be able to create badges in an online learning environment.