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"Sash is a badge issuing & hosting service that follows the metadata format of the awesome Mozilla Open Badge Infrastructure project. Allows developers to stand up their own badging platform and integrate badge creation, issuing and displaying into their own products." on GitHub

"This badge designer makes use of the exciting new features in HTML5 to allow you to combine different visual elements, colours and text to create an attractive Open Badge graphic. You can then use this graphic in your Open Badge issuing systems when creating your rewards."

"This is an experimental service for badges, powered by Open Source." Create, deploy and collect open badges service

Resources from Michael Boll's #learning2 workshop on open digital badges

"WPBadger is a simple WordPress plugin for issuing badges and adding them to a user's Open Badges backpack. "

This is the site to watch for open badge concept in life long learning. Will it catch on as a real "community college" accreditation concept?

A slide presentation by Doug Belshaw and Tim Riches where they explain how the Mozilla Open Badges can verify and recognize skills and achievements. These are digital and an individual can be display them on various sites, be they job sites, social networking places, websites etc.

There is something in games based learning that seems to get missed out of much of the discussion. While it's common to think of using game-like approaches or video-games I find much of what is said revolves about how games work in terms of mechanics. Level ups, XP (experience) and badges seem to dominate the gamification dialogue. I wonder how you can gamify the workplace or the classroom without also exploring the more important aspects of why people play - how it feels to be immersed in a story that you feel a part of. Players are given badges and tokens all the time, except these don't provide that intrinsic motivation that people often associate with gamification. For the love of it. How do you get people to play for that reward?

A SaaS hosted service for organizations. Not free because they have consulting fees, I think. May develop a free solution later. Open source badges are cool new buzz topic. Love the colorful web design of this site.