#openbadges

Here may lie an Open Badge programme. Time for a pre-mortem…

Last week I was facilitating a Think-a-thon with a WeAreOpen client in Edinburgh alongside co-op member Grainne Hamilton. We were…

6 years ago

Stand in their shoes

"We're going to start issuing digital badges." Great. Make sure you stand in the shoes of the people you intend…

6 years ago

Distribution of Innovation

Together with Doug Belshaw and WeAreOpen Co-op I've been working a micro-credentialing project with the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington D.C. On the second day…

6 years ago

Open Badges 2.0

I attended the badge summit in London last week. I had the opportunity to visually digest the chatter from different speakers regarding V2…

7 years ago

Pathways

Gold, Silver, Bronze, yawn... This (standard) approach prevents the issuing organisation from having to think too deeply about how learners might interact with…

7 years ago

Open Badges from Dialogue

It's one thing to decide how to badge a group of people on your own terms. It's quite another to…

7 years ago

Computing Badges

Desired Experience: Swift Or Objective C, JavaScript, Cordova, Angular... I've always thought that one of the most obvious areas ripe…

7 years ago

The unwritten books of Dr Belshaw

Conversational thinkery is where it's at. Armed with a pen and paper, there are gems to be uncovered and captured.…

8 years ago

Issuing Open Badges

What gives an open badge value? Well, apart from the fact that value is a conversation between two parties, I…

8 years ago

Keeping badges weird

This thought, born in a session at Mozfest, where Mark Surman related back to the kookiness of the origins of…

8 years ago