Open Badges might be a way to award students for independent learning

Here's an interesting concept:  Earn a badge that shows others a form of informal or "less formal than from a University" education.

Go head, click on http://openbadges.org/

Sounds good.  Here are some screen shots from OpenBadge.org

All you have to do is click HERE to learn more

In the meantime, while I learn about wikis and the various pieces of creating an OpenBadge.org, I have offered the following course online:

The Certificate of Applied Instructional Technologies

You can learn more by clicking HERE