Free Skillsoft/Percipio

[eriehiker]

By the way, skillsoft doesn't grant you certs but you can get digital badges and share them to linkedin. Those are of course, far less valuable than certs.

Not sure if this is worth a separate thread of it's own, but does anyone understand this new obsession with badges? Apparently it's much better if I cover my resume with a bunch of meaningless teeny-tiny icons, than if I write a few lines about relevant certifications.
Meh. Badges don't inspire me the way a nice-looking certificate does.

Well, there are two aspects to it that could become interesting.  The first is that these badges can be combined with blockchain technology to verify the authenticity of the badge even if the badge provider goes out of business.  The second is that the badges are supposedly more skills based and the dream is that these become building blocks to larger credentials and maybe even degrees - haha!  Not likely.  Also I like the wallets that these can be placed into.  Hopefully it develops in a more open source way than certificates so that it could become like one big open source transcript.

The alternative and more likely scenario is that these just go away in a few years.