Dr. James E. Willis, III is Assistant Professor of Practice for Religion and Co-Director of the Faculty Academy at the University of Indianapolis. His research includes several areas like ethics and educational technology, open digital badges, political theology, and post-structuralism and religion. He also regularly writes (and co-writes) op eds related to religion. He is the 2023 recipient for Teaching in the Core Award for undergraduate students. Educated in theology, philosophy, and comparative religion, James holds a Ph.D. from King's College London, an M.Litt. from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and a B.A. from Roanoke College in Virginia.
Learning analytics can play a role in helping open digital badges and differentiated assessment reach their potential by producing both public evidence for badges and private artifacts to support differentiated assessment at scale.
As microcredentials become more prevalent, so too should the ethical engagement with practices, assumptions, and effects on society. A classification system helps everyone negotiate changing systems of credentialing.
Following their emergence around 2011, digital badges began transforming the way learning and accomplishment are recognized.
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