Open Badges

Continuing to ‘build the barn’

Next Badge Wiki barn raising event: 23rd August 2017 at 16:00 UTC

It’s Time to Re-think Credentials… Here’s How.

If you have a diploma of some kind, where is it? For some of us this is not an easy question. I found my Bachelor’s degree here (see below). Right next to our toy vault full of laundry quarters and my wife’s Star Wars crochet kit.

Hi Jenna, when you 'post your badge' to social networks, you’re just posting a link back to the place it’s actually held/hosted.

The whole point of Open Badges is that they’re transportable digital credentialsm in other words, you can nice then elsewhere — not be forced to keep them in a single silo!

So long, and thanks for all the badges!

The Badge Alliance has successfully merged into IMS Global Learning Consortium as of…

Great points Tim. I heartily endorse.

I could rant here about one high profile “gated badge community” posing as an open badges one, but instead I’ll suggest a couple of things:

• expand the notion of accessibility to include accessibility for people with disabilities

Badge Bootcamp will be back soon!

Earlier this year, We Are Open Co-op teamed up with MyKnowledgeMap to create Badge Bootcamp. We had…

Company Culture

I was reminded recently of a heated debate I had (over a Guinness) with an old boss of mine. We had been reviewing the appointment…

Opening up Open Badges.. the story so far

I work in the Disruptive Media Learning Lab at Coventry University as a Principal Project Lead. In this role I lead innovation projects — some brought to us by university staff and students, others that I develop based on my interest in learning…

Drilling into new potentials for Open Badges

Open Badges have been with us since their launch in 2012. There have been some…

Universities must build innovators in new ways