Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
Watch for more of this: the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education (VAL-ED). By Discovery Education Assessment. Yes - it's Discovery Channel; branching out into the assessment business, which works well with their (non-credentialed) learning business. Now, get a behemoth like, say, Pearson Education to partner with Discovery, and all you need universities (like Vanderbilt) for is branding. If that. Here's a sample set of items, here's a sample report. All you need now is a badge for your website. Now - if you think (like Russo - that it will be "one assessment to rule them all, think again. There will be multiple competing incompatible assessments (because that's how the free market works).

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