Stakeholders' perceptions of the opportunities, challenges, and value of digital badges in education.

To understand the opportunities, challenges, and values stakeholders perceive to be associated with digital badges for learning, we analyzed discussions in an online community in which designers, educators, programmers, and others shared ideas guiding the creation of a set of standards for digital badges and badge systems. In this paper we present the themes expressed in these discussions as well as stakeholders’ values and their perceived opportunities and challenges of digital badge systems.