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Open Badges 1.0 Launch
You may have heard but we launched Open Badges 1.0 on Thursday at the DML Conference. Here are some places to read more:OpenBadges blogMozilla blogTechcrunchMuch More…My versionHere’s what 1.0 means to...
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The Evolution of Badges, DML-by-DML
The DML conference over the past few years has been a key milestone in the badge work. This year we formally launched the production version of Open Badges and it was awesome. As I was standing on...
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Open Badges Values
We’ve been doing some strategy and planning work for Open Badges and the general badging work, and one thing that became clear was that we have some implicit values and principles that we have carried...
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2M Better Futures
President Clinton just stood on stage and told the world how important and ‘good’ the work on badging is. It was surreal. It was awesome. We are at CGI America and he was announcing the commitment to...
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Why the Chicago Badges Work Matters
We recently formally launched the Chicago Summer of Learning badge work. This has been a pretty big undertaking for us, to say the least, we started early conversations back in January and for the last...
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Badge Camp
My two weeks of vacation conveniently ended with a fun, relaxing week with my team in a remote oceanside town in Northport, Maine. Not sure there’s a better way to get reintegrated after vacation. The...
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Badge Vision Summit
This week kicked off with a meeting of badge minds in Toronto. Around 30 of us packed into the lovely Centre for Social Innovation to discuss the emerging badge ecosystem and how to drive the next era...
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My last post on the Badge Summit was more of a ‘here’s what happened’, but wanted to follow that up with some of my own reflections and inspirations. Distributed leadership: We talk a lot transparency...
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CSOL - How Did We Do?
The mornings are crisp and the leaves are turning rich colors here (you should come!)…it’s officially Fall. We’ve wrapped up the Chicago Summer of Learning and have had some time to reflect on how it...
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BadgeKit, the Why
Just back from MozFest, where we announced BadgeKit, an Open Badges tool stack that will support the key pieces of the badging experience. This includes defining/designing, assessing, issuing,...
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