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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, Meg Cole, Jade Forester | Updated: 2013-09-25 | |
| Mozilla's Open Badges 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 technical infrastructure. The result: helping people of all ages gain and display 21st century skills and unlock new career and educational opportunities.
Get started with Open Badges
- Ready? Check out our site and Community page
- http://openbadges.org
- http://community.openbadges.org/
- Set? Create your Backpack
- https://backpack.openbadges.org
- Go! Get some Badges!
- Read more about the Technology behind Open Badges
- Find the Onboarding information for Issuers, Displayers and Earners and get started!
Want to know more about Open Badges? Read about what badges are and how they work and check out our Frequently Asked Questions page to find some answers, or shoot us an email at badges@mozillafoundation.org
Become part of the community
- Join our weekly Open Badges Community Calls, held weekly on Wednesdays at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm GMT 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 come along.
- If you are interested in Open Badges Research and Badge System Design, join the Research & Design Calls, held on Wednesdays in the hour before the Community Calls, at 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm GMT
- Subscribe to the Open Badges learning group and development group to take part in ongoing conversations about badges in the wild.
- Open Badges Blog -- Follow our blog for Open Badges news and updates
- Follow us on Twitter at @OpenBadges and use the #OpenBadges hashtag to join the conversation on Twitter.
- Find us on Facebook at facebook.com/MozillaOpenBadges
- Reach us on IRC at irc.mozilla.org, #badges
- Want to give an Open Badges presentation? To get you started, here's a PDF. Please note that all of these documents are CC by SA.
- Help us to build a common lexicon of digital badge terms.
Who is using Open Badges?
- Read our User stories - Everyday examples of badges in the real world.
- The 2 Million Better Futures project from CGI America aims to help 1 million workers and 1 million students succeed using Open Badges.
- This Chicago Summer of Learning was the first citywide badging initiative developed, and it was so successful that Mayor Emmanuel committed to continuing the program next year.
Check out the list of Participating Issuers on the Open Badges site for an updated list of badge issuers and designers.
Further Reading
- White Paper -- An in-depth look at how badges can reinvent 21st century learning
- Open Badges Validation Paper -- An exploration of how to build an open and distributed accreditation system for badges and the organizations that issue them
- Press coverage -- A collection of articles and related items from community member Sheryl Grant (new Press Coverage page coming soon!)
- Open Badges roadmap -- We're continually updating the roadmap with new features.
- Learn more about the Digital Media and Learning Competition: Badges for LifeLong Learning (administered by HASTAC and funded by MacArthur).
Press Inquiries
Please contact press@mozilla.com.
Get involved with Mozilla
- Join Mozilla -- you could get a snazzy t-shirt for joining!
- Mozilla's mission -- Read more about our mission to promote openness, innovation & opportunity on the Web.
- Like Mozilla on Facebook and Follow Mozilla on Twitter
- Get updates from Mozilla -- Be the first to know what we're doing and how you can get involved.