From Badges to Breakthroughs: Unleashing Learner Potential through Competency-Based Achievements - Deborah Everhart, Frederick M. Hurst, and Ellen Wagner, EDUCAUSE Review

Extending low-cost, quality educational opportunities was the focus of the recent "Badges to Breakthroughs" panel session at EDUCAUSE 2013. Here, session participants offer individual summaries of their views on positioning MOOCs, exploring personalized learning, and examining how badges can provide value in the stakeholder ecosystem. Taken together, their perspectives illustrate the many breakthroughs occurring that both activate learner potential and validate alternative learning credentials. http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/badges-breakthroughs-unleashing-learner-potential-through-competency-based-achievements