Good day,
I happen to be exploring Open Badges, so it was with great interest that I
looked into how Oracle is jumping on the Open Badge bandwagon with Acclaim
(from Pearson). Yet, I find myself being very disappointed with the initial
deployment of badges.
In regards to Andrew Kerber's "Critical DBA Skills" thread last month
<https://www.freelists.org/post/oracle-l/Critical-DBA-Skills>, the Oracle
badges do not clearly identify any fundamental skills whatsoever; the badge
does indeed list generic top-level skills like the catch-all "DBA", but all
the so-called skills link directly to the job market. The one and only
"criteria" is that one has to obtain an Oracle certificate.
I love Mr. Kerber's thread because what he is essentially asking is "what
does a warm body need to be able to do to make it in our career choice?"
And some of the follow-up was excellent, like Dave Morgan's response about
having the proper attitude.
Anyone else have thoughts about the new Oracle badge program?
--
Charles Schultz
