OpenBadges Introduction and Easing In

Purpose of Opem Badges

The badges issued by the Open Badges project are digital indicators of skills learned inside or outside the classroom. Open Badges differ from purely visual representations of badges in that they contain metadata indicating the badge issuer, criteria for the badge, and other information, all of which is hard-coded into the image file itself. The technology supports a range of badge types, developed in conjunction with the badge issuer. Badges may point to "hard skills" such as computer programming, as well as "soft skills" like collaboration or "new skills" like social media and Web 2.0 topics. They can be issued by traditional educational institutions, professional bodies, community learning organizations, after-school programs, or online initiatives (including MOOCs).

Badge Issuers

nasa, Disney-Pixar, 4-H, and DigitalMe have developed badges for the Open Badges project. The ability to issue badges was integrated into TotaraLMS for the 2.4 release,[3] Moodle for the 2.5 release.,[4] and Blackboard for the Service Pack 12 release.[5] Mozilla has additionally stated that PBS, P2PU, Intel and the US Department of Education all plan to issue badges through the Open Badges project.[6]

Technical documentation

OpenBadges Community

Get Involved with Open Badges Community

Build your Learning Community with Badges

Learning on the web happens socially, through interactions with your peers around projects that you're passionate about.

If you're building a learning community on the web, Badges prompt conversations between learners. Peers recognize skills in each other and learn how to deliver stellar feedback.

ai, Robotic (nodebots), Automated, Machine Code, Open Badges Community

Badge ai

Badge ai breaks from the comfortable norms of the majority of OpenBadges discussions primarily focused on the human use of badges to reflect learning, join Badge ai Google Group to explore computer use of badges, which offers the possibility for artificial intelligence to assess a learner's capabilities and offer learner-appropriate learning materials.

OpenBadgesUA

OpenBadgesUA is a complete solution which lets you to issue badges and will allow your users claim their badges and display them in different websites.

Open Badge Designer

Open Badge Designer is an open-access image creator from MyKnowledgeMap to support all of your Open Badge building needs.

Build your Learning Community with Badges

The Peer 2 Peer University (p2pu) is a grassroots open education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls and gives learners recognition for their achievements. P2PU creates a model for lifelong learning alongside traditional formal higher education. Leveraging the internet and educational materials openly available online, P2PU enables high-quality low-cost education opportunities.

p2pu's Schools

  1. School of Social Innovation School of Social Innovation
  2. School of the Mathematical Future School of the Mathematical Future
  3. School of Webcraft School of Webcraft
  4. School of Ed School of Education
  5. School of Open School of Open

Get Down With OpenBadges and p2pu

Badges and p2pu.org

  1. It's easy to take a Badge you create on badges.p2pu.org
  2. And You integrate it with your course on p2pu.org
  3. Simply create your badge here, publish it, and copy the unique url for the Badge that appears in the browser.
  4. Then revisit your course on p2pu.org, click on the: Badges and Feedback” tab, and paste in the url.
  5. The Badge will appear as a content module, and you can move it around so it appears in the right spot

Fedora Badges Fedora Badges

You can submit new badge ideas on the fedora-badges tracker.

Please report bugs and file issues with التحرير (Tahrir) on the GitHub issues tracker.

This project is free software; you can find the source on GitHub.

dpd Project - Badge systems that fit

The dpd Project studied the 30 Open Badges initiatives from the 2012 DML Badges Competition, supported by the MacArthur Foundation. Now they are sharing what they have learned.

Technical Resources

BadgeKit

BadgeKit.

WordPress open badges widgets

Create Open Badges and Open Badge Systems

Mozilla Open Badges is free software and an open technical standard. This means any individual or organization can create, issue and verify digital badges. Whether you are an educator who wants to implement a few badges in your classroom, or a professional organization creating a complex badge system, you  help build the open badge ecosystem! Here are some resources to get you started.

Tools for Creating and Issuing Open Digital Badges

Building OpenBadges

Earn Badges

Contributors Earn Distinct Mozilla Contributory Achievements Badges
Name Mozilla Webdev ForkMozilla Webdev Pull requestMozilla Webdev Merge Mozilla Webdev Merge 10Mozilla Webdev Merge 25Mozilla Webdev Merge 50 Mozilla Webdev Merge 100
Description Fork a Mozilla Webdev repository on GitHub Submit a Pull request to a Webdev repository on GitHub Finish a Pull request to successful merge Finish 10 Pull requests to successful merge Finish 25 Pull requests to successful merge Finish 50 Pull requests to successful merge Finish 100 Pull requests to successful merge
Possible RecognitionsBadge Badge Badge Badge Badge Badge Badge

badges.mozilla.org/en-US/profiles/profile/webdev

Note: The above may not need the cite element usage.

References and Resources

socialme - My OpenBadges

Open Badges Infographic