How Mozilla is making learning open, like the web. Great image of the live drawing created at the Open Badges Summit to Reconnect Learning 2014, showing "why badges"
Nice overview of the potential of badges to hack education, disrupt how folks demonstrate their achievements, even at the higher education level, and more
New ebook from the DIgital Media Learning Hub that takes up the topic of open badges for new opportunities and how learning can be connected for individuals as they vertically move through their educational and professional experiences
The latest report from the Alliance for Excellent Education on how digital badge systems impacts teacher professional development and college and career readiness for students.
Lessons from the "maker movement": Doing is what matters; openness; give it a go; iterative design; aesthetics matter; mentoring defies ageism; learning is intensely personal; It IS about the technology; ownership -- Are you hooked? I am!