"Blogging is one of the eventual realization of web 2.0 technologies. It is the driving engine behind this online information revolution. Thousands of blogs are created everyday and for different purposes. Some people blog to make money, some to share their voice with the world, some to immortalize their life events and diaries, and others blog just to vex and scam people."
"If you're interested in making badges for a course/class you're teaching or for a workshop/tutorial you're offering, this post will give you the low-down on making a badge by hand." . « Billy Meinke's Blog
"Open Badges ... initiative allows training providers to issue digital "badges" to the participants in their courses, who thereby earn online representations of their newly acquired skills. Each learner can earn badges from all manner of verified issuers, collect them in their online "backpack", and show them off by plugging them into their website or blog."
Insignia is a project dedicated to exploring open badging in research education. This blog contains research notes and ponderings on the key questions underlying this work:
"As more people begin to earn, implement, and investigate badges, there is a danger that what is unique about badges will become assimilated into established, and often flawed, practices rather than people accommodating the benefit of badges into their own thinking." - Sam Abramovich/HASTAC
"What kind of options and motivations for learning could alternative certificates create? What if students could complete assessments when they were ready? Can we give students the chance to "test out of "units or whole courses because of independent learning?"
"To me, an assessment is the (1) the activity, (2) the evidence, and (3) the judgment. Whether the "thing" awarded out the back end of that process is a grade, a certificate, a pat on the back, or a badge, these second-order proxies are credentials and not the actual assessments"
"Use Credly to showcase, curate and manage all of the credit you receive. Invite people to Credly to see your growing set of credentials, or share your achievements out to places it matters most to you, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or your own blog or website."
"Earlier this week, IMS Global announced "an initiative to establish Digital Badges as common currency for K-20 and corporate education." By 'digital badges', the post makes clear, they mean Open Badges."
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