"the Open Badges Issuer Gadget for Google Sites. This gadget wraps the Mozilla Issuer API to allow you to issue badges from a Google Site. To use the gadget is insert into a Google Site and prefix (base url) is set for your Assertion JSON."
"...we've begun to develop and pilot internal badge systems within different areas of the organization. Not surprisingly, this growing group of Mozilla badge systems is revealing itself as fertile ground for investigating the development of a variety of badge systems."
via Carla Casilli
"Erin Knight, leader of an education-badge project run by the Mozilla Foundation that provides a platform for students to display such badges on their Web sites, argues that grades shift students' goals from learning to earning, because the stakes are so high when the result of an entire course is reduced to a single letter."