Open Badges
Subscribe to category RSS Feed2023
- 20th October - Earning a badge in preparation for my MSc
- 28th September - Seven Samurai and Open Badges
- 21st September - The Value of Credentials Endorsement
- 8th September - The role of endorsement in Open Badges and Open Recognition
- 22nd July - The Unseen Threads of Open Recognition
- 1st April - Reimagining hiring with Open Recognition
- 30th March - Open Recognition + Critical Pedagogy = empowerment, dialogue, and inclusion
- 29th March - Embracing the Full Spectrum: towards a new era of inclusive, open recognition
- 28th March - Reinventing the Fortress: using Open Recognition to enhance ‘standards’ and ‘rigour’
- 27th March - The old ‘chicken and egg’ problem about microcredentials kind of misses the point
- 24th March - Realigning Microcredentials with Open Badges
- 23rd March - 5 reasons why microcredentials are not Open Badges in name, spirit, or ethos
- 16th March - Verifiable Credentials and Open Badges 3.0: What’s changed?
- 14th March - Climbing the Mountain of Assessment: Comparing Ungrading, Open Recognition, and RPL
- 10th March - “I can’t see the forest for the trees!” Microcredentials and Open Recognition
- 9th March - Why Open Recognition Is the Key to Unlocking Human Potential
- 28th February - Wake me up when you’ve stopped talking about microcredentials for workforce development
- 2nd January - Hear me now!
2022
- 21st July - Some thoughts on programmatic Open Badge image creation using AI models
- 11th July - Wanted: a simple 3-step Open Badges platform to generate claim codes and issue badges
- 18th March - Open Badges is now on the plateau of productivity
- 3rd February - Decentralising the description of skills with OSMT
2021
2019
- 13th March - What we need is an Open Badges community renaissance, free of IMS involvement
- 12th February - So long Digitalme, and thanks for all the fish
2017
- 20th November - Pearson, WTF? Badges, patents, and the world’s ‘least popular’ education company
- 25th July - Join us tomorrow for the first Badge Wiki barn raising session!
- 28th June - Elevator pitch on Open Badges for SQA Expert Assessment Group
- 21st June - Badge Wiki: start of 30-day feedback period on Terms of Use and Privacy Policy
- 14th June - Providing some clarity on Open Badges 2.0
- 8th June - Digital Employability for the New Economy [Stir to Action]
- 6th June - Some thoughts on the future of the Open Badges backpack
- 31st March - Badging ‘co-operative character’
- 13th March - Badges, Proof and Pathways [DML Central]
- 1st March - Is it the end of the traditional resume? [opensource.com]
- 1st February - Against mass consumption of ‘already certified’ credentials
- 17th January - Join us in London on February 15th for BADGE BOOTCAMP!
2016
- 16th November - We’re running a webinar next week on badges, and you’re invited
- 7th November - Open Badges, BlockCerts, and high-stakes credentialing
- 28th October - A new dawn for Open Badges
- 25th October - Blockcerts are friends of Open Badges
- 10th October - 3 things we need for the next big frontier in Open Badges and digital credentials
- 28th June - How to use metaphors to generate badge-based pathways
- 13th June - 3 Ways Open Badges Work Like the Web [DML Central]
- 2nd June - Some thoughts and recommendations on the future of the Open Badges backpack and community
- 23rd May - Beyond ‘low-hanging fruit’: why I’m no longer an Open Badges evangelist
- 5th May - Notes and comments on ‘Digital Badges in Education’: Part I: Trends and Issues
- 6th April - What is a ‘credential’ anyway?
- 5th April - Notes on ACE’s ‘Quality Dimensions for Connected Credentials’
- 22nd March - Are alternative approaches such as gamification and badging effective in increasing engagement, retention, and achievement?
- 11th March - Weeknote 10/2016
- 9th March - Some thoughts on the evidence behind Open Badges
- 8th March - Open Badges in Higher Education: Disruptive, Desirable, and Democratic
- 26th February - Why do we hire based on ‘experience’? HR, Automattic, and Open Badges
- 11th February - Calling out Pearson on Open Badges
- 11th February - The Possibilities of Badges and Blockchain [DML Central]
- 18th January - What a post-Persona landscape means for Open Badges
2015
- 27th November - 3 reasons open source needs Open Badges [opensource.com]
- 13th November - The New Nepotism
- 8th November - Why the future remains bright for Open Badges
- 20th October - Open Badges location extension
- 2nd September - An experiment in using LinkedIn Pulse for blogging
- 30th July - Towards a visual hierarchy of Open Badges
- 10th July - Introducing the Open Badges 101 course! [pre-alpha]
- 3rd June - The potential of Chirp.io to send Open Badges between people and devices
- 29th May - Extending Badges [DMLcentral]
- 20th May - Towards a taxonomy of Open Badges for City & Guilds
