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Why Get a Pricey Diploma When Badges Tell Employers More?

Forbes Magazine - Column

January 26, 2012

The biggest push for badge certification is coming from an unlikely source: industry and education reform leaders, not the post-secondary education sector. A leader of the charge is the respected Mozilla Foundation, best known for its popular Firefox web browser. Mozilla's working document, "Open Badges for Lifelong Learning," is not only a good primer on the badge revolution, but a persuasive introduction to "connected learning ecology," a concept that is upending our ossified allegiance to top-down conventionally walled classrooms.

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