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There are several ways to get involved and contribute to the growing discussion on badge system design:  

* Join us for our weekly '''[http://bit.ly/OBCommCalls community project calls]'''

* Discuss badge system design on the '''[https://groups.google.com/d/forum/openbadges Open Badges forum]'''

* Use the '''[https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23badgesys&src=typd #badgesys]''' hashtag on social media channels

People develop badge systems for many reasons: here's a place to begin to acknowledge the goals that your badge system aims to address. System goals may or may not be directly related to specific badges. In other words, the system may have overarching goals that individual badges work together to address. While goal specificity can play an important role in a system, a system can have multiple goals, as well.

 

Since goals may be intertwined, let's use this area to indicate if certain goals are linked. Additionally, let's use this space to indicate if the listed goals relate to the goals of your proposed or actual badge system. You can do so by adding your name + affiliation to a bulleted point.

*** Carla Casilli (Mozilla Open Badges badges)

* Social engineering  

There are a variety of use cases that we're seeing in the badge system design world. Different from system goals, these are generalized descriptions that capture who might design badge systems.

 

 

 

[http://remediatingassessment.blogspot.com/ Dan Hickey] and his team of graduate students working on the badges [http://iudpd.indiana.edu Design Principles Documentation Project] are investigating how 30 winners of the DML Badges for Lifelong Learning contest are designing and modifying their badge systems to fit individual project goals and contexts. This team is beginning to publish case studies of each of the DML projects. The DPD Project aims to thoroughly describe the practices used in each system context, how those practices had to change to better adapt over time, and how they relate to general design principles that could be applied in a number of badge systems.

*[http://www.workingexamples.org/example/show/609 Supporter To Reporter (S2R)] - Supporter to Reporter (S2R) provides learning opportunities for young people to take on the roles of sports journalists, media producers, and mentors. S2R Medals will recognize and reward the skills and achievements gained by young reporters who learn and demonstrate a rich array of competencies acquired through their participation in the program.

*[http://www.workingexamples.org/example/show/612 UC Davis: SA&FS Learner Driven Badge System] - The SA&FS program at UC Davis is a new interdisciplinary major promoting holistic critical thinking about food systems. Funded by a MacArthur DML grant, SA&FS designed and implemented a badge system to complement the degree awarded through the program.

*[http://www.workingexamples.org/example/show/617 Sweet Water AQUAPONS Badge Project] - Sweet Water AQUAPONS is an online platform where students gain digital badges as they learn the skills needed in aquaponics. The Sweet Water Foundation (SWF) developed AQUAPONS to provide self-directed learning opportunities to future sustainable agriculture practitioners and expand the field of aquaponics by creating a replicable model for urban agriculture education.

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Personas are useful in the early stages of badge system design. There are myriad interpretations of what personas are and how they work. In order to disambiguate the way they're described here, here is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona_%28user_experience%29 the wikipedia interpretation of them] and [http://www.measuringusability.com/blog/personas-ux.php a practicing UX designer's interpretation of them].

 

There are thousands of possible personas, this area can help us understand how they might relate to use cases. Each system context will have its own combination of stakeholders and personas. There is no universal persona.

** The Badge System Design worksheet is a Google spreadsheet that prompts the system design owner to consider as many areas of a badge system as possible early on in the developmental stages. By reviewing this document prior to building out badges, it underscores many, if not all of the areas to be considered in the construction of a robust badge ''system''.

**The Canvas helps designers make the important decisions needed to describe each badge, from its name to who awards it, and encourages people to dig deeply into questions about why each badge is valuable and how they will be used in this context.

* <div id="dpdcards">[http://iudpd.indiana.edu/CardDeck DPD Project: Design Principles card deck]</div>

** The DPD card deck was created by Nate Otto using the design principles from Dan Hickey's Design Principles Documentation Project, to which he contributes. It turns the building of a badge system into a type of game.  

**By shuffling through the deck and selecting different cards, designers analyze how the different components of their badge system work together to promote achievement and program goals. The idea is not to pick "best practices" but to find mutually compatible principles that make badges a good fit for program goals and contexts.  

**Community members may [http://ottonomy.net/contact/ contact Nate Otto, DPD Project coordinator], with questions on how to design a system with the DPD principles and cards and how to run a workshop using the cards.

* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/hv7lc0ky3qy5v7l/offline_tools_for_e-mail.pdf Snook Badge Maker Offline Toolkit]

** Snook has found that creating badges with your hands is a great way to get people to engage and think about Open Badges. These tools have worked well with all ages, interests and backgrounds.

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* Common Core State Standards (USA)

As badges become valuable social capital, we're seeing increasing numbers of badge system designers. This is an unedited list of self-identified badge system designers and ''inclusion in this list does not indicate endorsement by Mozilla''.  

 

* Lucas Blair PhD | www.littlebirdgames.com | Specialization: Badge-based curriculum design/Badging in games and simulations

 

* Toni D.        | info@badges4languages.org | Specialization: Badge-based curriculum design/Badging in learn languages with the C.E.F.R.