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

"ClassBadges is a free, online tool where teachers can award badges for student accomplishments. Through your teacher account, you can award badges customized for your classroom or school. "

A thoughtful post which led to an passionate exchange in the comments between Doug & Dave Cormier on the philosophical underpinning of badges

Thoughts of David Theo Goldberg on "whether badges can offer a viable means for assessing learning."

Responses and thoughts on some of the posts arising from the DML 2012 conference & DML Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition

Thinking behind the framework or ecosystem within which Mozilla Webmaker badges will sit

"A common question about Open Badges is 'what is their real value' this is obviously a much broader question than I am qualified to answer* but a key component of creating value in Open Badges is being able to share them with others and generally shout 'Go Me!"."

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

A 20 min presentation illustrating one Higher Ed tutor's )Alex Halavais) journey to introducing a badging system.

Open Badges presentation by Doug Belshaw for JISC conference

"This Challenge will walk you through all the steps needed to create a badge for P2PU. It will provide links to all resources needed, including Open Source software, font files, and initial templates. You will need a bit of creativity and a bit of patience if you haven't done any graphics work before."

"How are we using badges to enable a complex, robust ecology of learning to support more just & equitable social futures?"

Article discussing Badges, their background, examples of use and how you might introduce them in your setting.

Closing summary from author Cathy: "Obviously they don't in all situations. For over a hundred years grades have represented or summarized a teacher's estimation of the worth of a student as quantified by a series of tests, often of the item-response variety (invented in 1914). Badges are simply another way, a more flexible way, of certifying a range of skills that our machine-age multiple choice mode of testing doesn't fully comprehend but that are crucial to the ways we live, work, and learn."

Different views of how badges might recognise progress, achievement or exploration/innovation

"Video by DigitalMe and S2R Medals, a winner of the Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition"

"This post suggests some initial questions about learning that you might want to ask if you are considering using digital badges."

"I've just started awarding the first badges from my graduate seminar, IPT 692R: Introduction to Open Education."

"Will digital badges ever really be accepted as proof of mastering a subject?"

"Using achievement goal theory to predict the ways in which these divergent orientations towards learning might impact a learner's motivation within a badge system can be useful."