Read up on Badges. [June 19, 2012, 10:15 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. Follow the Open Badges Resources Decision Map (thanks to Doug Belshaw for this resource!)
5. 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).
6. NYTimes: Beyond the College Degree, Online Educational Badges.
7. Totara: http://www.totaralms.com/about-totara/news/86
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. Educause "Things you should know about badges": http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7085.pdf (thanks to Liz Renshaw)
What other resources have you found?