Badges/bsd/wiki

Introduction

Badge system design is rooted in understanding how badges come together to form a system. There are a variety of approaches and we're interested in cataloguing them all here. This wiki is the framework for building a toolkit to help people understand badge system design. This is where you come in: add your use cases, your definitions of terms, your techniques, your questions, etc.

Getting involved

There are several ways to get involved and give feedback on the standard:

• Add your content below!
• Join us for our regular research / system design calls
• Discuss badge system design on the Open Badges list
• Use the #badgesys hashtag

Aspects of badge system design

System goals

There are many reasons for developing a badge system, let's use this spot to write down the goals of possible badge systems. Your goals may or may not be directly related to specific badges. What are yours? Specificity is important but if your badge system has multiple goals, please indicate that as well.

• Connect community
• Recognize contributions/achievements
• Help participants advertise their skills

Use cases

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

• Community recognition / development
• Academic advancement
• Professional development

Personas

There are thousands of possible personas, let's consider them and how they might relate to use cases. Each system context will have its own combination of stakeholders.

Badge types

There are a number of badge types, let's consider what they are and how they might be used. Is there a default type of badge?

• attendance
• participation
• learning
• skill
• achievement

Levels

• beginner
• intermediate
• advanced
• expert
• affiliation

Badge criteria

Are there different ways to write about your content? Let's cover that here:

Alignments

Some badges may align with standards, some learning, some professional. This is the area to think through what those alignments might be.

Academic

• common core
• web literacy standard