Open Badges are (adapted from Doug’s presentation above):
* visual representations of achievements, learning, skills, interests, competencies – anything you want the badge to represent,
* a complement to traditional education ‘certification’,
* capable of accommodating formal or informal pathway for learning,
* representative of hard & soft skills, peer assessment, and ‘stakable lifelong learning’,
* snapshots of learning wherever or however it occurred,
* ‘stealth assessment’!