{"id":1,"date":"2012-01-02T20:47:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T20:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jeffyoung.net\/?p=1"},"modified":"2012-01-29T20:08:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T20:08:54","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jeffyoung.net\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Badges&#8217; Earned Online Pose Challenge to Traditional College Diplomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spread of a seemingly playful alternative to traditional diplomas, inspired by Boy Scout achievement patches and video-game power-ups, suggests that the standard certification system no longer works in today&#8217;s fast-changing job market. The spread of a seemingly playful alternative to traditional diplomas, inspired by Boy Scout achievement patches and video-game power-ups, suggests that the standard certification system no longer works in today&#8217;s fast-changing job market. (<a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Badges-Earned-Online-Pose\/130241\/\">Full story<\/a> at <em>Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em> | <a href=\"http:\/\/news.slashdot.org\/story\/12\/01\/08\/221257\/do-online-educational-badges-threaten-conventional-education-models\">Picked up on Slashdot<\/a> as well.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> I wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204301404577170912221516638.html\">news-analysis about the educational-badges trend<\/a> for the <em>Wall Street Journal&#8217;<\/em>s Weekend Review. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spread of a seemingly playful alternative to traditional diplomas, inspired by Boy Scout achievement patches and video-game power-ups, suggests that the standard certification system no longer works in today&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffyoung.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffyoung.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffyoung.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffyoung.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffyoung.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffyoung.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffyoung.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffyoung.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffyoung.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeffyoung.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}