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Let's take an exploratory look at badging systems within our education system...

Badging systems have been around for many of years weather it be boys and girls scouts...karate...our armed forces...etc. So that readers dont interpret this post as a bash against badging systems...i believe these types of systems are excellent concepts and provide a guide or help a student our more or less an individual to chart a particular course and also set some particular goals. I do think the badging system had kinda of gotten a little out of control due to there not being an overall standard...and each group doing his or her thing for the most part.

We look at the scouts there is a standardized process aroung the badging process and the same goes for margial arts and the military. For scouts there may be a task or a series of documented tasks associated with a badge....For martial arts, to move to the next level there is a training regiment and then an applicable test. For the armed forces, the sames holds true but on a while different level...in some job roles as many as 200-300 task have to completed alkng with proving capability to your mentor and then an exam to get to the next rank...with respect to the various patvhes the hold significance also...the badge signifies your career level and supposed skill set within your chosen career field.

I believe there may have been an entity that attempted to standardize badging systems but its a process that has to have buy-in and very detail oriented because if not the slightest oversight in process can sway an entity to undertake a different process based on overall understanding. For it to effectively work across a schools landscape the feedback loop is very important as each entity with a badging system agenda may have differing success and customization related factors.

Over customization with respect to badging can of course lead to thousands of different badges...which is similar to what we have now. With over customization there also tends to be the issue that a badge from this school carties more weight than a badge from that school so forth and so on...you get the picture.

This is why there has to be more collaboration within the college...trade school...high school landscape. But only for the colleges instructors and faculty but also amongst the students. This a unique connectionbthat holds our nations armed force together...there may be competition in sports and such...but there is accepted knowledge that each branch will need to rely kn the other...when #%it hits the fan. Theres an understanding of how to come together as one team...but this goes back to the different joint training elements where at the various levels the members interact and learn from ome another.

The collaborative process for college to college has also got to jnclude the student collajorationwith one another or it really doesnt work...how can the colleges collaboration while the student for the most part are hodden within the institutions walls.

I have seen within various projects here at CertificationPoint where students from various schools have collaborated together they share knowledge and achieve great things. I believe this is the key as each school teaches dirrently but more importantly has something valuable to impart. Interestingly enough the same dynamics I saw in armed forces traingjng environments...whether collaborative or working with ofhers in my same branch....are self evident amongst the students. There's a certain level of prestige that is brought to the a collaborative table based on the school attended...of which there should be but when getting the work done it continues to be be seen that respecting what another student can bring to the table, a school methodology that is shared at the table, and life experiences up to that point is a driver towards collaborative success.

Closing the loop on the badging system process tying together real job role delineation of tasks as well as whyher it was a singular or collaborative function holds value and importance in its overall success in the future. Why? Take for instance being in the scouts and learning to start a small camp fire can be a collaborative process...if your role in the process was findjng a safe location for the camp fire and you still receive the badge...what is your overall value when starting a camp fire on a family vacation...if you have the badge stating you can do a task but the role participation states differently.

I'd love to hear others thoughts on the badging system?

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