Badging & Credentialing: How Students Show What They Know

The upcoming Getting Smart Town Hall will take a look at a number of organizations and technologies that enable powerful badging and credentialing opportunities to help students share their stories, their learning and their priorities.

Credentialing is the new way to communicate capabilities and provides more reliable and precise capability signaling than courses and grades. We’ll explore the secondary and postsecondary learning and employment ecosystems where credentialing is emerging, how it complements skills-based hiring, and the implications for learner records.