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.
Tools + their uses
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
- affiliation
Levels
- beginner
- intermediate
- advanced
- expert
Badge criteria
Are there different ways to write about your content? Let's cover that here:
Standards
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