I just had occasion today to consider the use of badges in museum training, so I am even further behind than you claim to be. I also just finished grading a set of final exams for an intro to folklore class, and my mind began to work at connecting these two ideas. What if “Intro to Folklore” meant we could assign students to “go prep for the badge” online for the first 4-5 weeks of a semester, opening up the rest of the time we have for hands-on, project-based applications, perhaps incorporating more public folklore activities in settings like festivals, archives, and museums? This might establish better standards for an introduction to the field, cut down the hours of lecturing and increase the kind of skills-building that folklorists really need.