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Badge System Design: standardization, formalization & uniqueness
This post continues the conversation about Open Badges, the Open Badge Infrastructure and badge system design. It’s one post in a series of thoughts-in-process that will culminate in a white paper...
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Badge System Design: learning from Caine
Before we return to our regularly scheduled program tracking the protean components of badge system design, just a quick post about the simple beauty and unexpected delight found in a child’s approach...
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Open Badges Lexicon: Earners and Issuers
We’ve leapt into Badge System Design in some earlier posts (1, 2, 3) and we’ll be returning to it shortly, In the interim, I’d like to step back to consider a small number of basic Open Badges tenets....
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Learning, coding, systems of power, and Mozilla
Starting this summer, we’re aiming to help create a group of webmakers. Building on Mozilla’s Manifesto—to promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the web—we’re rationalizing a set of core...
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Badge System Design: seven ways of looking at a badge system
Badge system design can be considered in a variety of ways. I tried to come up with thirteen ways to discuss them so I could write a poem riffing on one of my favorite poems, Thirteen Ways of Looking...
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Badge System Design: what we talk about when we talk about validity
Every day we conduct conversations with folks new to the idea of Open Badges. Each of these conversations is steeped in inquisitiveness. Questions abound. Curiosity spills out. Thought waves feel...
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Mozilla Open Badges: building trust networks, creating value
“…the value of a unit of currency is not the measure of the value of an object, but the measure of one’s trust in other human beings.” (Graeber, 2011) In the last few posts we have discussed ways in...
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Friday badges wrap-up: Jan 20 – Feb 1, 2013
Happy Groundhog Day, all! Punxsutawney Phil has spoken: here’s to an early spring! - – - Things that happened with Open and Webmaker badges: week of 1/20 Two weeks ago (Jan 24-25) the Open Badges team...
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Boundless learning: the continuum of web literacy
There are a lot of people who think that our educational system is broken. I tend to think of it as problematic rather than broken—because it still works for some people, just not everyone. Wouldn’t it...
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Badge pathways: part 1, the paraquel
A few weeks ago I posted this image and stated that I would be following up with several posts about badge pathways. In particular, how they fit into our work at Mozilla along several different lines:...
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Badge pathways: part 2, the “quel”
In the badge pathways paraquel post we discussed the importance of the whole system and how your badges can coalesce into something greater than its parts. But let’s talk about what the...
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Chicago 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...
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Chicago 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 the...
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Badge pathways: part 0, the prequel
This prequel blog post is part of an ongoing trilogy. The trilogy consists of three posts—the prequel, the “quel” and the sequel—plus a bonus paraquel post. The first post to appear, the paraquel, can...
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The myth of the lightweight badge
The development of the open badge ecosystem is at the heart of all of the work that I do. I am deeply invested in ensuring that the ecosystem grows and thrives. During the time I’ve been focused on...
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A foundational badge system design
The last two years or so have found me investigating and contemplating many different types of badge systems. Along the way I’ve been wrestling with considerations of badge types, potential taxonomies,...
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Credentials: not finished changing
“When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.” —Benjamin Franklin From the gold standard to the floating exchange rate The world of credentialing is evolving. Degrees have long been considered the...
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