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xAPI, Open Badges and E-Portfolios - Christian Glahn
The new ADL Experience API offers interesting opportunities. Yet, it challenges the integration with existing concepts and technologies. An example for these challenges is illustrated by the following...
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City of Chicago :: Mayor Emanuel Announces Nearly 100,000 Badges Awarded...
grainnehamilton's insight:Partnership between City of Chicago, Mozilla and MacArthur Foundation results in nearly 100,000 Open Badges being issued during Chicago Summer of Learning.See it on Scoop.it,...
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Chicago Summer of Learning's City-Wide Badging System | Carla Casilli and...
In 2013, the Mozilla Open Badges team worked with the city of Chicago Mayor's Office, the MacArthur Foundation and many other youth-serving organizations to launch an amazing and exciting learning...
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CSOL | What are awesome things to do in Chicago this Summer?
grainnehamilton's insight:Official site for the Chicago Summer of Learning - a city-wide, summer learning programme that resulted in the issuing of nearly 100,000 Open Badges.See it on Scoop.it, via...
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hastac.org by Mobify
grainnehamilton's insight:Design principles for motivating learning with Digital Badges posts on HASTAC site.See it on Scoop.it, via Open Badges
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Chicago Summer of Learning 2013: thoughts on developing a citywide badge system
For the last few months we, the Mozilla Open Badges team, have been working together with a number of other groups and the City of Chicago to launch an amazing and exciting learning campaign: the...
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Chicago Summer of Learning: thoughts on badge design
In my initial post about the Chicago Summer of Learning (CSOL) badge system, I quickly sketched out the rough outline of it. In this post we'll talk through the components of CSOL badge design and...
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Badges: what comes between & before
As I've been thinking through the concept of badges and how folks might interact with them from a systems standpoint, I keep coming returning to the idea of the void. The empty space around a...
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Value, Cognitive Authority, and Digital Badges
The major question that I have had since I’ve started exploring new hosting opportunities for our ORMS badges involves aspects of value, credibility, and “sincerity” of design involved in our badging...
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OpenBadges
We had a great group on "Openness and Innovation in e-learning" and the bonus badge above was a genius idea birthed by David in a midnight Facebook support group. Although H817 is a...
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LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman on education: overhaul the degree, not just the...
LinkedIn co-founder and investor Reid Hoffman wants upgrade the college diploma, but he’s not the only one thinking of new ways to approach credentialing.grainnehamilton's insight:Article mentions...
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CSOL | Level Up
grainnehamilton's insight:Over 100,000 Open Badges were issued during the Chicago Summer of Learning. This page explains how badge earners could unlock higher level challenges and badges by following...
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SQA investigates opportunities with Mozilla's Open Badges - SQA
Scottish Qualifications Authority, sqa,grainnehamilton's insight:Exciting stuff for Scotland and Open Badges contained in this press release from the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) and...
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Open Badges at the Mozilla Summit (#MozSummit, #OBSEG, #OpenBadges)
What an inspiring few days I had at the Mozilla Summit! The Summit brought together 2000 Mozillians in 3 cities, in 3 countries over 3 days. I attended the Brussels Summit and left it feeling...
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Five Ways Digital Badges Can Influence Learning
RT @kyledbowen: RT @EvoLLLution: @kyledbowen & Andrea Thomas at discuss 5 ways badges influence learning http://t.co/FH4AAwaHFf #edu13grainnehamilton's insight:Useful summary of five areas where...
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Open Badges lessons from October
BadgeMaker's badge wall Over the last month I have had the pleasure of attending not one, but two Mozilla events: the Mozilla Summit, which ran from the 4th - 6th October, and MozFest which took...
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Superbadger Community Facilitators Take Badges To New Heights At MozFest 2013
"The Mozilla Festival is where many of Mozilla’s best and most innovative ideas spring to life. It’s where passionate thinkers and inventors come together to learn from one another and engage in...
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Badge System Design: ideas to build on
Hey there, happy new year! I hope that the new year is going well and continues to go well for everyone. Over the holidays—and for quite some time actually—I've been meditating on some thoughts...
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Evidencing Employability Skills with Open Badges
Concerns, Possible Solutions, Paradigm Shifts and Key Findings There was focused and lively discussion at the Open Badges: Ways to Evidence Employability event I co-facilitated at the University...
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Open Badges in 2013
Welcome! This interactive timeline tells the story of Open Badges in 2013, from community accomplishments and teamwork triumphs to citywide learning and MozFest celebrations.grainnehamilton's...
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Discovering pathways
For the past couple of months I have been working with the Mozilla Open Badges team on the Open Badges Discovery project. The project is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and we are...
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Competency-Based Education and Open Badges
The past few weeks have seen a few exciting developments for Open Badges. In June, and in response to recommendations of the Further Education Learning Technology Action Group (FELTAG), the UK...
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BadgeMOOC: Badges: New Currency for Professional Credentials
Open Badges MOOC run by Mozilla in conjunction with Blackboard.See it on Scoop.it, via Open Badges
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Reconnect Learning
grainnehamilton's insight:Case studies and resources for different audiences - learners, job seekers, employers and educational institutions - considering using Open BadgesSee it on Scoop.it, via Open...
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A Badge By Any Other Name...
The recent announcement by Udacity to offer nano-degrees really got me thinking. It’s, of course, a new word - a hip and buzzworthy word especially with the geeky crowd (nano!). So now we’ll add...
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Creating a Culture of Openness - Pilots to Policy to Prosperity
Over the past couple of weeks I've attended a number of events on open education, open credentialing (focusing on Open Badges), innovation and prosperity. In the process I have come across a...
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Skilling me softly
Recently industry, community groups and informal learning providers have come together to research and advocate for more investment in soft skills development. The group has produced the Backing...
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Learning, Badging, Connecting: Mapping your MozFest Learning Journey
Learning happens everywhere, but it isn’t always recognised in a way that can be shared with others. At MozFest this year, DigitalMe led a…grainnehamilton's insight:Overview of Open Badges at MozFest...
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