Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Mozilla and open badges

Badges are an alternate method of credentialing. If you finish one of the popular MOOCs, what evidence do you have of your achievement? Enter the badge.
 
Mozilla is trying to put together a new badges ecosystem.  You can create your own badges that capture any kind of learning.  They are working on creating a universal standard.  They are making the badge more than just an image file, the image will be embedded with metadata that tells people about the badge, who issued, it, what was achieved, etc.
 
Badge backpack - a place to collect all of the badges in one place. Can categorize them - job oriented badges, hobby oriented badges, etc. Can push them out to social networks.
 
Openbadges.org.  You can go through an experience learning about badges and the backpack and earn your first badge.
 
(on a side note, I really like the clean presentation of their powerpoint slides
 
Resources
Grades out, Badges In - Chronicle of Higher Ed

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