Mozilla Open Badges to Show Career Readiness
Professional Examination Service has issued a white paper, Digital "Badges" Emerge as Part of Credentialing Future, examining the history of how digital badges have been "used to represent...
View ArticleOut With the Degree, In With the Badge: How Badges Motivate Learning And 7...
How Digital Badges Motivate Learning And 7 Tips To Use Them Right: http://t.co/iH8LsIWyau via @inform_edgrainnehamilton's insight:Controversial title but the article investigates ways in which Open...
View ArticlexAPI, 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...
View ArticleCity 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,...
View ArticleChicago 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...
View ArticleCSOL | 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...
View Articlehastac.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
View ArticleChicago 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...
View ArticleChicago 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...
View ArticleBadges: 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...
View ArticleValue, 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...
View ArticleOpenBadges
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...
View ArticleLinkedIn’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...
View ArticleCSOL | 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...
View ArticleSQA 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...
View ArticleOpen 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...
View ArticleFive 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...
View ArticleOpen 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...
View ArticleSuperbadger 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...
View ArticleBadge 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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