Open Badges in 2016: A Look Ahead

The Open Badges project is growing up. We’re now in our 5th year, so in many countries around the world, we’d be about ready to enter school. There has been a continuous community gathered around this technology from the very start, populated by dedicated individuals…

Backpack NG update

The migration window and push to live of the new code base

Since MozFest back in October, where we showcased how Backpack NG was progressing, we’ve been working on ensuring the code base and test scripts are all behaving as…

Badge Alliance Community Plan 2016

The Badge Alliance is a distributed community. Its membership is comprised of individuals and organizations who collaborate to build and support the open badging ecosystem. Our shared values include openness, learner agency, and innovation. In practice, that means we…

An Open email to all users of the Backpack

As promised a (hopefully) more detailed and informative summary of what is going to happen with your Persona login and the Backpack over the coming days.

Badge Alliance Standard Working Group Launches 2016 Cycle

March 1st marked the 2016 cycle’s first call of the Badge Alliance Standard Working Group as it begins the work on the future of Open Badges. The working group is the official standards body for the Open Badges Specification, and it will organize the work leading up…

What’s happening with Persona and the Backpack?

We will be following up with a much more comprehensive update, but here’s the broad brushstrokes and what will happen for platforms and end users.