Transcending conventional credentialing and assessment paradigms with information-rich digital badges
本文基于信息科学与学习科学的理论与概念，展示了数字徽章的信息可供性如何通过超越传统的学术证书与教育评估范式，来改变教育与学习。
Open digital badges are Web-enabled tokens of learning and accomplishment. They operate in an environment of explicit (rather than tacit) trust; open badges provide issuers the ability to include specific claims and associate those claims with detailed supporting evidence. Earners are encouraged to share their badges over social networks, e-mail, and websites, and the information they contain is expected to circulate readily in these spaces. Building upon current concepts and theories from the Information Sciences and Learning Sciences, this article shows how the informational affordances of digital badges are transforming education and learning more generally, and more particularly by transcending conventional paradigms of academic credentialing and educational assessment.