101 What are Open Badges?

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Read up on Badges. [Dec. 28, 2012, 10:06 a.m.]


  1. Read the Mozilla Open Badge announcement made in September of 2011: http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/09/15/openbadges/
     
  2. Visit http://openbadges.org/ and comb through all of the information available. Pay particular attention to the 'About' page and the organizations teaming up with Mozilla.
     
  3. Read up on the Open Badges Roadmap: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/roadmap
     
  4. Check out Planet OpenBadges for regular posts about everything the Mozilla Open Badges team is up to.
     
  5. Follow the Open Badges Resources Decision Map (thanks to Doug Belshaw for this resource!)
     
  6. Learn more about the Open Badge validation process from Jon Buckley: http://jbuckley.ca/2012/01/validating-open-badges/, who works at the Seneca Centre for Development of Open Technology (CDOT).
     
  7. Read about the Higher Ed/Open Badges debate in the NYTimes: Beyond the College Degree, Online Educational Badges.
     
  8. Onboarding docs: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Onboarding-Issuer#G._Verification (thanks to Sunny Lee from Mozilla for this resource!)
     
  9. Assertions Wiki: https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges/wiki/Assertions (thanks to Sunny Lee from Mozilla for this resource!)
     
  10. Check out Educause’s "Things you should know about badges": http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7085.pdf (thanks to Liz Renshaw)
     
  11. Susbcribe to Audrey Watters, http://hackeducation.com/, a technology journalist.

What other resources have you found?