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	Mozilla Open Badges
	Owner: Erin Knight, Carla Casilli, Sunny Lee, Emily Goligoski, Chris McAvoy, Brian Brennan, Mike Larsson, Doug Belshaw, Jess Klein, Chloe Varelidi, Atul Varma	Updated: 2013-03-21
	Mozilla's Open Badges is working to make it easy for anyone to issue, earn and display badges across the web—through a shared infrastructure that's free and open to all.

What is Mozilla's Open Badges project?

Learning today happens everywhere, not just in the classroom. But it's often difficult to get recognition for skills and achievements that happen outside of school. Mozilla's Open Badges project is working to solve that problem, making it easy for anyone to issue, earn and display badges across the web -- through a shared infrastructure that's free and open to all. The result: helping people of all ages learn and display 21st century skills, unlock career and educational opportunities, and find new life pathways.

Localized Spanish badge diagram: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alvarmaciel/8536933804/in/photostream/lightbox/

Get involved with Open Badges

Check out our site: http://openbadges.org

Join our weekly community calls: Our Open Badges community calls are held weekly on Wednesdays at 9am PT (-8 UTC) and are open to the public. During these hour long calls we share our progress and encourage you to share your Open Badges work, questions, and comments. They're fun and we encourage you to join them.

Subscribe to our mailing list: Subscribe to our Open Badges google group. This is where you'll find active discussion of technical questions, philosophical conversation about badges, and badge-interested folks.

Read our Whitepaper: We wrote a whitepaper on some of the initial thinking and framing about badges. Check it out!

Check out our code: Visit our Open Badges github repository where you can see our technical wiki, view our outstanding and closed issues, and submit bugs. You can also find Open Badges related widgets.

View our roadmap: We're continually updating the Open Badges roadmap with new features.

Learn about the Digital Media and Learning Competition: Go read about the DML competition: Badges for LifeLong Learning (administered by HASTAC and funded by MacArthur).

Read the Open Badges blog: Read our blog for regular posts about badges news and thinking.

Follow us on Twitter: Our Twitter handle: @OpenBadges; Hashtags to follow include #openbadges and #dmlbadges

IRC (Chat): Reach us on IRC at irc.mozilla.org, #badges

Open Badges Definition of Terms: Help us to build a common lexicon of digital badge terms

Presentation resources: Want to give an Open Badges presentation? To get you started, here's a PDF. (Still working on uploading the PPT deck and a Keynote deck.) Please note that all of these documents are CC by SA.

Press & Research: Help us to track press articles, blog posts, research, white papers, etc. on this Open Badges Communications google doc

Press inquiries: Contact press@mozilla.com

Learn more

About Open Badges -- What are badges? How does it all work?
How to get started -- Onboarding information for Issuer, Displayer and Earner
Press coverage -- Up-to-date news coverage on the project
White Paper -- An in-depth look at how badges can reinvent 21st century learning.
User stories -- Everyday examples of badges in the real world.
Technology -- Documentation and resources on how the underlying technology works.
Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q.) -- Got questions? Start here.
Pilot badge program -- Mozilla and P2PU's School of Webcraft badge program.
Open Badges Blog -- Blog posts about Open Badges from a variety of sources
Project team and tools -- Open Badges source code, issue tracker and communications tools.

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