I think the post "Are We Really Stacking- Or Just Making Piles?" is a very useful critical reflection on stackable learning and recognition. It's essential to zoom out to a big picture and in again in transitional times and surely messy change is afoot. I recall wanting a more flexible, real world pathway 40+ years ago as an undergraduate. It is a significant plus to have new possibilities now albeit with much effort, false-starts and dead-ends ahead.
I'm going to add "yet" to your comment. There is a lot of hype and some words have become just buzzwords, but I do believe that looking at the work that is being done in the areas of digital identity, digital credentials, recognition and learner agency, that we will get there.
I think the post "Are We Really Stacking- Or Just Making Piles?" is a very useful critical reflection on stackable learning and recognition. It's essential to zoom out to a big picture and in again in transitional times and surely messy change is afoot. I recall wanting a more flexible, real world pathway 40+ years ago as an undergraduate. It is a significant plus to have new possibilities now albeit with much effort, false-starts and dead-ends ahead.
In my book Long Life Learning, I call them “mythical” stackable credentials precisely because they haven’t lived up to their promise. :)
I'm going to add "yet" to your comment. There is a lot of hype and some words have become just buzzwords, but I do believe that looking at the work that is being done in the areas of digital identity, digital credentials, recognition and learner agency, that we will get there.