In the last decade, the awareness that digital badges are a secure container by which credentials can be represented, transmitted, and shared readily has grown. However, there is no taxonomy general enough to represent all levels and types of credentials possible in digital badging. Besides, there has been no taxonomy grounded in a cognitive learning framework. The digital badge taxonomy achieves this by applying Gottipati and Shankararaman’s (2018) competency cube, which maps Bloom’s modified taxonomy to Dreyfus’s skill development model.
The digital badge taxonomy supports the classification and description of completing a degree program or a module in a course with a single competency in a common language. This common language will offer a consistent meaning inside and outside academia and anywhere where digital badges are earned and awarded.
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