Mozilla has been cooking something interesting: a framework for anyone to create and award badges to anyone else. The recipient can then display the badges wherever they want, and the underlying metadata and functionality make the badge verifiable by anone. Is this the future of accreditation? Where do we need traditional schools any more?
Anyways, the Open Badge project is still in beta, and Mozilla has teamed up with P2PU’s School of Webcraft to test the badges in action. I’ve signed up for the challenge and will be posting a few times on that topic in the near future. My interest is seeing how the Open Badges work in practice, and whether they might be leveraged in some of the R&D projects I’m involved in. In terms of the School of Webcraft, I assume it’s mostly just me proving I know this stuff. After 16 years of web development I should know my way around these issues. Hopefully… 🙂
Yes I agree, love the Open Badge project and can’t wait to get started. I think it will be a good motivational tool to help people get into the right gear
Yeah, I am in the same boat as you, I think badges are awesome, and I really want the project to take off. It feels kinda silly taking an intro course, but the hippy-dippy part of me is showing up to class wearing sandals and telling everyone we should go study in the drum circle in the quad…
Okay, that analogy got out of hand quickly. ^_^