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A Typology of Interpersonal Recognition

Back in the old days of social media, h/t was a thing. (I remember having to ask what it meant...)…

5 days ago

The Meaning of Recognition

I think in the early days of thinking about open credentialing, I got fixated on the credential part. The proof…

1 week ago

Microcredentials and Recognition

Hidden in conversation are a whole host of metaphors, which are pictorial clues to the stories being told. Contrasting two…

2 weeks ago

Elements of a badging policy

What creates the spark behind an illustration? There's nothing I love better than playing idea ping-pong with a co-collaborator. This…

2 weeks ago

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…

7 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