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|description= We're building an open platform that will enable anyone to issue, collect and display badges. Providing learners with new ways to get public recognition for their skills and achievements.
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== What's this about?  ==
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|updated=March 2014
|description=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.
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*[https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/6/64/OpenBadges_--_one-pager_--_DRAFT_ONLY_--_version_1.4.pdf '''One-page summary''']. A simple summary of the Open Badges project, with pictures. (PDF) ''(draft only)''<br>
__NOTOC__
*[http://bit.ly/badgepaper4 '''Working badge paper''']. "An Open Badge System Framework" paper. Authored by Peer 2 Peer University and Mozilla in collaboration with The MacArthur Foundation. ''(draft for comment)''
*[http://openmatt.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/badges-in-the-real-world/ '''Learner stories''']. Everyday examples and use cases for badges in the real world. ''(draft only)''<br>
*[https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/3/32/Badge-diagram-2.2.jpg '''Napkin sketch''']. A simple visual overview of how the open badge system works. ''(draft only)''<br>
*[https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/a/aa/Open_Badges_--_tech-diagram-_2.2.jpg '''Technology diagram''']. A visual overview of how the underlying technology works.<br>
*[http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/Badges-FAQ '''Frequently Asked Questions'''] (F.A.Q.) Got questions? Please add them here. ''(draft only)''


== The project in a nutshell:<br>  ==
== What is a Badge? ==


*Today's learning happens everywhere, not just in the classroom. But it's often difficult to get credit for it.<br>
badge [baj]: a special or distinctive mark, token, or device worn as a sign of
*Peer 2 Peer University and Mozilla are working to solve this problem by developing an Open Badges infrastructure.&nbsp; <br>
allegiance, membership, authority, achievement, etc. (Source: [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/badge Dictionary.com])
*Our system will make it easy for education providers, web sites and other organizations to issue badges that give public recognition and validation for specific skills and achievements. <br>
*And provide an easy way for learners to manage and display those badges across the web -- on their personal web site or resume, social networking profiles, job sites or just about anywhere. <br>
*The result: Open Badges will help learners everywhere unlock career and educational opportunities, and regonize skills that traditional resumes and transcripts often leave out.<br>


== Get involved  ==
A badge is a symbol or indicator of an accomplishment, skill, quality or interest. From the Boy and Girl Scouts, to PADI diving instruction, to the more recently popular geo-location game, [https://foursquare.com/ Foursquare], badges have been successfully used to set goals, motivate behaviors, represent achievements and communicate success in many contexts. A “digital badge” is an online record of achievements, tracking the recipient’s communities of interaction that issued the badge and the work completed to get it. Digital badges can support connected learning environments by motivating learning and signaling achievement both within particular communities as well as across communities and institutions. (Source: [https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/5/59/OpenBadges-Working-Paper_012312.pdf Erin Knight White Paper])


*Read the working [http://bit.ly/badgepaper4 working badge paper].<br>
== Digital Badges vs Open Badges ==
*Check out the School of Webcraft [http://badges.p2pu.org badge pilot program].<br>
*Join the Open Badges [http://groups.google.com/group/badge-lab mailing list] to share your own ideas, tools and resources.<br>
*Check out [http://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Backpack screen captures] from the "Badge Backpack" prototype.


== Draft one-pager for feedback  ==
A digital badge is an online representation of a skill you’ve earned. Open Badges take that concept one step further, and allows you to verify your skills, interests and achievements through credible organizations and attaches that information to the badge image file, hard-coding the metadata for future access and review. Because the system is based on an open standard, earners can combine multiple badges from different issuers to tell the complete story of their achievements — both online and off. Badges can be displayed wherever earners want them on the web, and share them for employment, education or lifelong learning.


*[https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/6/64/OpenBadges_--_one-pager_--_DRAFT_ONLY_--_version_1.4.pdf PDF version is here]
'''Open Badges are:'''


[[Image:OpenBadges -- one-pager -- DRAFT ONLY -- version 1.4.jpg]]
*'''Free and open:''' Mozilla Open Badges is not proprietary. It’s free software and an open technical standard any organization can use to create, issue and verify digital badges.
*'''Transferable:''' Collect badges from multiple sources, online and off, into a single backpack. Then display your skills and achievements on social networking profiles, job sites, websites and more.
*'''Stackable:''' Whether they’re issued by one organization or many, badges can build upon each other and be stacked to tell the full story of your skills and achievements.
*'''Evidence-based:''' Open Badges are information-rich. Each badge has important metadata which is hard-coded into the badge image file itself that links back to the issuer, criteria and verifying evidence.


== What does an "Open Badge Ecosystem" look like?  ==
'''Open Badges make it easy to:'''


[[Image:Badge-diagram-2.2.jpg]]
*Get recognition for the things you learn;
*Give recognition for the things you teach;
*Verify skills; and
*Display your verified badges across the web.


'''''What does an "open badge ecosystem look like -- and how can it benefit you?''''' Any '''BADGE ISSUER '''(for example, an after-school programs, free online course, or vocational institute) can award certified '''BADGES''' to learners like you. Learns can then collect and manage their badges in a '''BADGE BACKPACK'''. This makes it easy to display your skills and achievements across a range of different '''DISPLAY&nbsp;SITES''' -- from your personal resume or web site, to social networking profiles, to employment sites. The result? Jobs, new learning opportunities and unlocked privileges.
== What is Mozilla's Open Badges project? ==


== The Open Badge Infrastructure  ==
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.


=== Description  ===
Want to know more about Open Badges? [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/About Read about what badges are and how they work] and check out our [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/FAQs Frequently Asked Questions] page to find some answers, or shoot us an email at [mailto:badges@badgealliance.org badges@badgealliance.org]


Enabling learners to earn badges wherever they're learning across the web requires support for multiple individual badge issuers. The Open Badges framework is designed to allow any learner to collect badges from multiple sites, tied to a single identity, and then share them out across various sites -- from their personal blog or web site to social networking profiles. The infrastructure needs to be open to allow anyone to issue badges, and for each learner to carry the badges with them across the web and other contexts.
== Mozilla BadgeKit ==


=== Prototype  ===
Mozilla BadgeKit is a set of foundational tools to make the badging process easy.


A prototype of the badge infrastructure was built at the Mozilla Drumbeat Festival in Barcelona. The prototype was updated and advanced in early January 2011, and a more complete and working prototype is now in use for the School of Webcraft [http://badges.p2pu.org/ badge pilot program].  
'''BadgeKit:'''
*Supports key stages in the badging experience including creating, designing, assessing and issuing.  
*Includes remixable templates and milestone badges allowing for easy customization.
*Provides modular and open options (standards) for the community of badge makers to use and build upon within their existing sites or systems.


<br> ''Screen capture from the prototype:'' [[Image:Infrastructure prototype.png|500px|Infrastructure prototype.png]]
The hosted version of BadgeKit is currently only available for select organizations as part of the [http://citiesoflearning.org Cities of Learning] initiative - '''sign-up for private beta has now ended'''. Alternatively, anyone can [https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges-badgekit download the code] from GitHub and implement it on their own servers. A tutorial for this process is available [https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges-badgekit/wiki/BadgeKit-Tutorial here].


<br> [[Image:Open Badges -- tech-diagram- 2.2.jpg|700px|Open Badges -- tech-diagram- 2.2.jpg]]'''<br>'''
[[Badges/badgekit|Read more about BadgeKit]]


== Similar Tools & Projects ==
== Get started with Open Badges ==


* Mozilla Hub identity systems
;Ready? Check out our site and Community page
* Badger badge issuing system
:*http://openbadges.org
* [http://www.codeschool.com/pages/about CodeSchool]
:*http://community.openbadges.org/


== Use Cases  ==
;Set? Create your Backpack
:*https://backpack.openbadges.org


*'''Open education training &amp; courses'''
;Go! Get some Badges!
**''Example:'' Web Developer Training
:*Check out the Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada [http://badgecentre.ca/ Badge Centre] and earn your first badges!
**''Partner: ''Mozilla / P2PU&nbsp;School of Webcraft
*'''Informal learning outside of schools'''
**''Example:'' Afterschool programs, museums and libraries
**''Partner: ''The MacArthur Local Learning Networks &amp; You Media Centres
*'''Formal Education'''
**''Example:'' Badges for learning and achievements in formal higher education courses
**''Current Implementations:'' Badges for courses at Quinnipiac University. Arizona State University is including badges on transcripts in addition to completed courses and final grades.
*'''Community Affiliation and Reputation'''
**''Example:'' Earning badges within a local art community to signify identity and reputation in that community, can then carry across communities
*'''Others?''' [http://groups.google.com/group/badge-lab Let us know!]


== The School of Webcraft Badge Pilot Program  ==
Read more about the [https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges#mozilla-open-badges Technology] behind Open Badges.
<br>
Find the [https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges/wiki Onboarding information for Issuers, Displayers and Earners] and get started!


'''The School of Webcraft '''is a joint initiative between Mozilla and Peer 2 Peer University offering free, peer-driven courses and study groups on open web development. The School of Webcraft Badge Pilot, running in the January and April 2011 course cycles, will provide an opportunity to test the open badge infrastructure and prototype by introducing assessments and associated badges into the School of Webcraft. These include '''skill badges''' (e.g., Javascript, PHP), '''value badges''' (e.g., Accessibility), and '''peer-to-peer badges''' that learners can award to each (e.g., Good Teammate, Peer Mentor, etc.).<br><br>
== Become part of the Community ==


[[Image:Badgepilot.png|700px|Badgepilot.png]]
*[https://groups.google.com/d/forum/openbadges '''Open Badges learning group'''] and [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/openbadges-dev '''development group'''] -- Subscribe to these groups to take part in ongoing conversations about badges in the wild.
*[https://openbadges.etherpad.mozilla.org/openbadges-community-2 '''Open Badges Community Calls'''] -- Join our weekly global call every Wednesday at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm GMT. 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!
*[https://openbadges.etherpad.mozilla.org/research-calls '''Open Badges Research & Design Calls'''] -- If you are interested in Open Badges Research and Badge System Design, join this call, held on Wednesdays in the hour before the Community Calls, at 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm GMT.
*[http://openbadges.tumblr.com// '''Open Badges Blog'''] -- Follow our blog for Open Badges news and updates.
*[http://twitter.com/#!/openbadges '''Twitter'''] -- Follow @OpenBadges and use the [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpenBadges&src=typd #OpenBadges] hashtag to join the conversation on Twitter.
*[https://www.facebook.com/MozillaOpenBadges '''Facebook'''] -- Like us on Facebook for news and updates you can share with your networks.
*[https://wiki.mozilla.org/IRC '''IRC'''] -- Reach us on IRC at irc.mozilla.org, #badges
*[[Media:Open_Badges_Presentation_-_General.pdf‎| '''Open Badges presentation materials''']] -- Want to give an Open Badges presentation? To get you started, here's a PDF. Please note that all of these documents are [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ CC by SA].
*[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aTAP04N9dAuSGv71tWOUA1iqYxWWTA4dlQIyP-7WT0E/edit '''Common badges terms and vocabulary'''] -- Help us to build a common lexicon of digital badge terms.


== More information &amp;&nbsp;documentation  ==
== Who is using Open Badges? ==


*School of Webcraft Badge Pilot:
*[http://openmatt.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/badges-in-the-real-world/ '''User stories'''] -- Hypothetical examples of how badges can help solve problems in everyday scenarios.<br>  
**[http://badges.p2pu.org Web page]<br>  
*[http://www.2mbetterfutures.org/ '''2 Million Better Futures'''] -- This project from [http://www.cgiamerica.org/ CGI America] aims to help 1 million workers and 1 million students succeed using Open Badges by 2016.
**[http://etherpad.mozilla.org:9000/webcraftassessment Assessment and badge plan]  
*[http://chicagosummeroflearning.org/about '''Chicago Summer of Learning'''] -- The first citywide badging initiative, which was so successful that [http://www.enewspf.com/school-news/45425-mayor-emanuel-announces-nearly-100-000-badges-awarded-through-chicago-summer-of-learning.html '''Mayor Emmanuel committed to continuing the program next year.''']
**[http://wiki.p2pu.org/w/page/35266593/January-Badges P2PU wiki page]
*[http://www.openbadges.org/participating-issuers '''Participating Issuers'''] -- An updated list of badge issuers and designers.
**[http://wiki.p2pu.org/Webcraft-Assessment Summary for School of Webcraft course organizers]  
*[http://bit.ly/platform-chart '''General Badge Issuing Platform Chart'''] -- A list of platforms for issuing open badges generated and continuously updated by the community.
*Background Work:
*[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Issuers '''Add your organization!'''] -- If you're issuing, designing or exploring open badges with your communities, add your organization to our list of issuers.
**[http://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/p2pu/Assessment_and_Accreditation Starting point]  
**[http://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/p2pu/Assessment_and_Accreditation/Webcraft_Assessments_-_detailed Deep dive on concrete examples]  
**[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/Badges/P2PU_SOW_Badge_Ideas Initial School of Webcraft badge planning]


== Project Tools ==
== Further Reading ==


*[http://groups.google.com/group/badge-lab Open Badges mailing List]
*[http://www.reconnectlearning.org/case-studies/ '''Case Studies'''] -- A set of case studies looking at how badges are being used to capture learning and achievements in higher education, professional training, and after school programs.
*Roadmap: draft in progress [http://etherpad.mozilla.org:9000/badge-infra-roadmap here]  
*[https://wiki.mozilla.org/File:OpenBadges-Working-Paper_012312.pdf '''White Paper'''] -- An in-depth look at how badges can reinvent 21st century learning<br>
*community calls: Thursdays 8am PST/11am EST, [http://pad.p2pu.org/community Call details and notes]<br>
*[http://bit.ly/badgevalidation '''Open Badges Validation Paper'''] -- An exploration of how to build an open and distributed accreditation system for badges and the organizations that issue them<br>
*Project wiki page: wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/Badges
*[http://www.scoop.it/t/badges-for-lifelong-learning/?tag=Sheryl+Grant '''Press coverage'''] -- A collection of articles and related items from community member [http://www.hastac.org/users/slgrant Sheryl Grant] (new Press Coverage page coming soon!)
*Presentation deck: (coming soon)  
*[https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/roadmap '''Open Badges roadmap'''] -- We're continually updating the roadmap with new features.
*Issue tracker: (coming soon)
*[http://dmlcompetition.net '''Digital Media and Learning Competition: Badges for LifeLong Learning'''] (administered by HASTAC and funded by MacArthur) -- click to learn more.
*Source code: (coming soon)
*Drumbeat project page: (coming soon)
*Chat room (IRC): coming soon


== Team  ==
== Press Inquiries ==


*[http://twitter.com/#!/eknight Erin Knight], Badge and Assessment Lead, Mozilla and P2PU
Please contact [mailto:press@mozilla.com press@mozilla.com].
*[http://twitter.com/#!/brianloveswords Brian Brennan], Open Badge Infrastructure Tech Lead, Mozilla
 
*[http://twitter.com/#!/sharingnicely Philipp Schmidt], Executive Director, P2PU
== Get involved with Mozilla  ==
*[http://twitter.com/#!/pipstar Pippa Buchanan], School of Webcraft Community Lead, Mozilla and P2PU
 
*[http://twitter.com/#!/openmatt Matt Thompson], Communications & Education Lead, Mozilla
*[http://join.mozilla.org '''Join Mozilla'''] -- you could get a snazzy t-shirt for joining!
*[http://www.mozilla.org/about/mission.html '''Mozilla's mission'''] -- Read more about our mission to promote openness, innovation & opportunity on the Web.
*[https://www.facebook.com/mozilla '''Like Mozilla on Facebook'''] and [http://twitter.com/mozilla '''Follow Mozilla on Twitter''']
*[https://donate.mozilla.org/Sign-Up '''Get updates from Mozilla'''] -- Be the first to know what we're doing and how you can get involved.
 
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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 a Badge?

badge [baj]: a special or distinctive mark, token, or device worn as a sign of allegiance, membership, authority, achievement, etc. (Source: Dictionary.com)

A badge is a symbol or indicator of an accomplishment, skill, quality or interest. From the Boy and Girl Scouts, to PADI diving instruction, to the more recently popular geo-location game, Foursquare, badges have been successfully used to set goals, motivate behaviors, represent achievements and communicate success in many contexts. A “digital badge” is an online record of achievements, tracking the recipient’s communities of interaction that issued the badge and the work completed to get it. Digital badges can support connected learning environments by motivating learning and signaling achievement both within particular communities as well as across communities and institutions. (Source: Erin Knight White Paper)

Digital Badges vs Open Badges

A digital badge is an online representation of a skill you’ve earned. Open Badges take that concept one step further, and allows you to verify your skills, interests and achievements through credible organizations and attaches that information to the badge image file, hard-coding the metadata for future access and review. Because the system is based on an open standard, earners can combine multiple badges from different issuers to tell the complete story of their achievements — both online and off. Badges can be displayed wherever earners want them on the web, and share them for employment, education or lifelong learning.

Open Badges are:

  • Free and open: Mozilla Open Badges is not proprietary. It’s free software and an open technical standard any organization can use to create, issue and verify digital badges.
  • Transferable: Collect badges from multiple sources, online and off, into a single backpack. Then display your skills and achievements on social networking profiles, job sites, websites and more.
  • Stackable: Whether they’re issued by one organization or many, badges can build upon each other and be stacked to tell the full story of your skills and achievements.
  • Evidence-based: Open Badges are information-rich. Each badge has important metadata which is hard-coded into the badge image file itself that links back to the issuer, criteria and verifying evidence.

Open Badges make it easy to:

  • Get recognition for the things you learn;
  • Give recognition for the things you teach;
  • Verify skills; and
  • Display your verified badges across the web.

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.

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@badgealliance.org

Mozilla BadgeKit

Mozilla BadgeKit is a set of foundational tools to make the badging process easy.

BadgeKit:

  • Supports key stages in the badging experience including creating, designing, assessing and issuing.
  • Includes remixable templates and milestone badges allowing for easy customization.
  • Provides modular and open options (standards) for the community of badge makers to use and build upon within their existing sites or systems.

The hosted version of BadgeKit is currently only available for select organizations as part of the Cities of Learning initiative - sign-up for private beta has now ended. Alternatively, anyone can download the code from GitHub and implement it on their own servers. A tutorial for this process is available here.

Read more about BadgeKit

Get started with Open Badges

Ready? Check out our site and Community page
Set? Create your Backpack
Go! Get some Badges!
  • Check out the Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada Badge Centre and earn your first badges!

Read more about the Technology behind Open Badges.
Find the Onboarding information for Issuers, Displayers and Earners and get started!

Become part of the Community

  • Open Badges learning group and development group -- Subscribe to these groups to take part in ongoing conversations about badges in the wild.
  • Open Badges Community Calls -- Join our weekly global call every Wednesday at 9am PT / 12pm ET / 5pm GMT. 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!
  • Open Badges Research & Design Calls -- If you are interested in Open Badges Research and Badge System Design, join this call, held on Wednesdays in the hour before the Community Calls, at 8am PT / 11am ET / 4pm GMT.
  • Open Badges Blog -- Follow our blog for Open Badges news and updates.
  • Twitter -- Follow @OpenBadges and use the #OpenBadges hashtag to join the conversation on Twitter.
  • Facebook -- Like us on Facebook for news and updates you can share with your networks.
  • IRC -- Reach us on IRC at irc.mozilla.org, #badges
  • Open Badges presentation materials -- 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.
  • Common badges terms and vocabulary -- Help us to build a common lexicon of digital badge terms.

Who is using Open Badges?

Further Reading

Press Inquiries

Please contact press@mozilla.com.

Get involved with Mozilla

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