The second challenge from the Badges: New Currency for Professional Credentials MOOC. Here are the instructions: For the ecosystem you defined in Challenge 1, How are competencies defined in your industry or community of practice, and by whom? What are the learning frameworks that guide learners toward achieving the competencies? Who assesses learners’ competencies? What evidence documents learners’ competencies, and who has access to this evidence? Can individuals assert competence without having undertaken a learning program, e.g., through tests or prior learning evaluation? How are learners’ competencies recorded? Who are the consumers of the records of competence? Outline the shortcomings and strengths of the current currency exchange in this ecosystem. Create a persona/archetype that represents an assessor stakeholder. This could be articulated as an additional role for your learning provider persona from Challenge 1. Elaborate on your “before badges” user stories from Challenge 1 to include more detail about the current state of the currency exchange.

3. Employees need
minimum
number of PD
hours per year
Employee
Employees seek
out and attend
training
opportunities
Trainer
Supervisor
reviews
evidence of PD
for annual
performance
review
Supervisor

4. Aaron is an instructional designer for a state
college. In order to document his Professional
Development, he keeps copies of seminar
descriptions, certificates of
attendance, receipts, whatever artifacts he
can, hoping it’s enough. He often thinks he learns
as much from online resources, but since he can’t
prove it, he attends often boring and uninformative
workshops, just to get the certificate of attendance.

5. Asha is the owner of a small company that offers
workshops and seminars for a variety of
organizations. Each organization seems to want
something different to verify employee
attendance: a certificate, an assessment, or just a
receipt for payment. She gets frustrated when
attendees just show up for the credit, clearly not
interested in what she’s trying to teach.

6. Phil is Aaron’s supervisor. He reviews and approves
PD activities, but generally has to just trust his
employees.The certificates of attendance don’t
prove knowledge, and he doesn’t know if
employees attend conference sessions, or just
socialize in the lounge. And conferences are so
expensive! Sometimes it seems like off-site PD is
just a nice way to get out of the office.

16. InstructionalTechnology is a relatively new as a field, though people
have been performing difference aspects of it for a very long time.
Having different paths to enter other than a specific college degree
provides opportunities for those with informal learning and experience
to work as InstructionalTechnologists.
Using portfolios provides evidence of skill and ability
above just having a degree, which varies widely
from institution to institution.

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