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"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."

"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

"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?"

"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."

"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."