This course will become read-only in the near future. Tell us at community.p2pu.org if that is a problem.
*Soon to be part of the School of Badges here at P2PU.
Your goals include: joining and participate in the Google group, getting connected with companies like Badgestack, reading related books and articles, blogging as a means of documenting my learning, and starting conversations about badges on Twitter and FB.
Tweet your heart out! #schoolofbadges
Hello everyone. Great to be here. I've been following Open Badges since last year and I'm please so see how far things have progressed. I'm keen to learn how to get some of the badges I've made into the system. Getting them produced in the correct manner will be my first challenge.
I'm going to compleate Open Badges 101 and see how I can move forward and reward the young people I'm working with. popuplearningspace.com.au
Hi Brendan!
Welcome to Open Badges 101. There are many developments with this course being worked into a collection of Open Badges courses. This is a starter course, but stay tuned! Within the next year, we anticipate building a School of Open Badges here at P2PU filled with many more courses designed for laypeople and programmers. :)
P.S. I am sooo interested in this popuplearningspace!!! How can we bring it to the US?!
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i am going to start architecture course this so wud this be helpful for me???????pls help me!!!!!!!!
Hello Joshna,
Open Badges can be awarded in courses, but they are not an architectural element, if that is what you mean. What do you need help with?
It might be a good idea to have a text summary of the video (a few bullets should be enough).
I agree. I'll add them now. Great point. As an instructional designer I should have implemented the CC at least.
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My name is Selim - I am taking a couple of these courses to prepare for the following school year. One of the things that really hit home this year was how externally motivated young people are. This is understandable, the idea of learning for learnings sake is something that takes time to appreciate. I realized that having really concrete goals for my students and giving them some kind of "reward" for accomplishing these tasks and mastering certain skills could increase their enthusiasm and cut down the amount of work of dragging them along. Badges seem to be something that will appeal to self motivated students and students who are less self motivated.
Hi Selim,
Welcome to Open Badges 101! You articulated this thoughts well: badges can appeal to many audiences and can be that small incentive/encouragement that students need to keep going.
Great thoughts and welcome!
Hello, I am creating an educational technology course geared to pre-service elementary and secondary school teachers. I am interested in 1. introducing my students to P2PU and the opportunities for tech learning available there and 2. perhaps setting up my course as a series of challenges that my students can select from and earn badges in lieu of grades.
Does this seem logical or am I completely off base? Thanks!
Hi Amy,
No it does not seem off base. In fact, you are way ahead of the movement in education I see happening. But let's not phrase it as such that badges will be earned in 'lieu' of grades. In the end your students have to have grades to report to the state (unless you work at a non-traditional school). However, badges can be a visual representation of the points they are earning, allowing you to 'gamify' the learning experience. Please let us know if there is anyway we can help you! I'm sure that others at P2PU will want to hear about this as well.
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Hi all,
I am a developer at uBoost and interested in integrating Open Badges with our badging system. Looking forward to learning about the non-technical side of badges as well.
Chris
Hi Chris,
Welcome! Yep- that's what this course is about-- dive in! As per this week's call, it looks like we will be developing a '102' to this that will hopefully dive deeper into the technical side/how laypeople can implement badges in their system.
Thanks for the heads-up! Looking forward to taking 102 as well.
Hi all!
I am a PhD student in Learning Sciences and very intersted in open badges. I took Doug Belshaw's earlier badges course here on P2PU (which was awesome!) and I look forward to learning more about badges here!
Andi,
Welcome! Oh are you in the program at North Western? Oh that program looked amazing!!! Doug has actually been floating around in here every now and then- he rocks! Yeah, this was my own personal challenge that I set up for myself to learn more about Open Badges, but I decided to make it public when it was done.
Enjoy!
Leah,
I am actually at Indiana University. Looking forward to learning with you all!
No way. Does Curtis Bonk teach in that program at all? I think he's at a different campus--- a truely amazing dude!
I am a member of the Curtis Bonk fan club... I aspire to become a super-mentor!!!!
Curt does teach at the Bloomington campus, however he is an IST professor.
Hello There
My name is Liz Renshaw. I'm a Literacy, Numeracy and Language Specialists working in the Vocational Education and Training sector in New South Wales Australia. I work with people needing a second chance at learning those basic skills.
This seemed like a great opportunity to come on board and spent some focused time thinking, reading, and sharing ideas about badges.I can see that badges seem to be the next big thing in learning and its certainly exciting to see an initiative that promotes the recognition of informal learning. I'm kinda wondering about the underlying assumptions of this movement, and what business models are being used to promote their implementation. Cynical me wonders when and where we will begin to see financial transactions involved. 
Welcome Liz,
Many of the groups involved with the Open Badges "movement" are committed to openness... OER, Open Source, Transparancy, Etc... so hopefully the business model will remain equally as open.
Enjoy your stay in the course. ask quaetions if you have them.
Peter
It's a great question Liz. Every free movement does have it's costs- and why shouldn't it? There are people who put their blood, sweat and tears in, as well as pay for products to produce products such as Web space and badge design. Right now, we are beginning to see costs such as in cosulting to help organizations set up a badge infrastructor, badge graphic design, hosting, and experience design (who don't have expertise on staff). It's not the costs that scare me, it's the inflation of the costs that scare me. Is it fair to charge $500/year for a small amount of Web space?
I agree with your comments Leah about costs particularly about the $500/year. Coming from a background in working with disadvantaged adults in literacy/language and numeracy(LLN) I immediately saw the positive impact that badges could have on their lives. Often learners may have limited skills but they have substantial life experience and have strong backgrounds in informal learning. Sometimes its just not possible within the given timeframes for them to achieve a measured increase in their LLN skills set by the curriculum or government funding sources, but if we could design experiences that exploited their strengths and then assess and recognise these skills through badges it would be a massive injection for peoples confidence/self esteem..
Badges could offer such an effective mechanism for those working with people with multiple disadvantage who are not well served by institutionalised curriculum, government training programs, or outcomes based learning all of which have a very narrow focus. I'm hoping, that down the track, any 'costs' for badges do not prohibit such as groups from benefitting from this terriific movement.
Hi there,
Looking forward to following along in the steps of this challenge. I have had an interest in Open Badges for a while now.
I have attended the Coder Dojo movement, happening in Ireland and now beginning to move worldwide. They are currently looking at using Open Badges for their attendees. Coder Dojo is a movement set up to give kids a chance to learn to code.
I am a teacher, by trade, currently working in Teacher CPD in ICT, so Open Badges are of interest to me too from a professional point of view. I think it would be better to have something that can follow you around the internet rather than having to copy paper-based certs.
Have you seen Doug Belshaw's blog? He's just moved to work with Mozilla Open Badges and would be well worth the follow. {Just saw task 2 where you mention him}
Fred.
Hello There
One thing about working globally it's fascinating to learn about other countries, educational initiatives and all things related. So was most interested in the Coder Dojo. By the way what's a CPD teacher Fred?
Hi Liz,
I was wondering about using the full description or just the three letter anacronym before I hit the "Post" button alright.
CPD = Continuing Professional Development (teacher training).
As you're in New South Wales, do you listen in to the Ed Tech Crew podcast. They're a couple of Australian techers who produce an educational podcast which is well worth the listen!
Have to agree, I love being in contact with other educators and learning about the approaches their systems use to educate students.
Fred.
HI F
Connections are wonderful things. I'd certainly heard of Ed Tech Crew but not checked it out but with your recommendation i'm on the wagon for podcasts. They are no doubt sitting under my nose somewhere in Australia but I've not heard the names of the guys doing it. I just love the way these courses connect you with other networks and magically too. So thanks for the idea.
Working globally we sure do get exposed to a great range of acronmys. So now CPD. I've noticed more recently there seems to be some interesting educational developments happening in Ireland. Am I right in thinking in its the primary education sector? love the yellow glasses- a nice touch..
Fred,
Welcome. I really like the coder dojo movement. Looking forward to great things!
Ask questions if you have them,
Peter
Hey Fred- yep, Doug and I 'tweet' every now and then. He is also in the running to speak at TEDxBuffalo--- woohoo! Part of the perk (or disadvantage depending on how you look at it) of knowing me... :)
We are a group from the 'Certified Networked Teacher' #CNT12 that will use this Open Badge course to create a 'dev community'.
The status of our CNT badge is that we need implement a badge rubric and upload a badge icon, then Zuzel from P2PU will make it available on the OBI (open badged infrastructure).
Jonas- I am honored. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help- or if there are any resources you find that you would like to have added to the challenge.
Thanks!
Leah,
I appreciate the intro. I first learned about open badges at a conference presentation I recently attended in Florida. The concept was presented and the Mozilla site was one of the sites that was mentioned so I referenced the site at a later date and read up on the concept in detail. I am excited about the badges option and immediately started to think about courses where legitamate badges could be offered.
Hey Kathi,
Thanks for joining the challenge! Badges can be used on so many different levels- professional development, education, gaming. It is important to keep having this conversation to make more people aware of the option, troubleshoot potential issues, and keep finding ways to utilize the concept. Thanks for sharing!
