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==Badges: General==
====What is a badge?====
*'''A badge is a symbol or indicator of an accomplishment, skill, quality or interest.'''<br>
*Badges are used to set goals, motivate behaviors, represent achievements and communicate success.
*They can support learning that happens in new ways, in new spaces beyond the traditional classroom, from online courses to after-school programs to work and life experience.
====What do badges do?====
*Badges can: *capture a wide set of skills and achievements.<br> *They provide concrete evidence and proof of your skills, achievements and qualities. *represent them Badges create are more complete representation of an individual's learning to potential employers, communities and stakeholders. *They unlock new career and learning opportunities.
====Why do we need badges?====
Badges can represent a diverse range of skills, competencies, qualities, achievements and interests, including:
*'''"hard Hard skills" ''' like - completing a course, mastering a specific programming language or math concept. *'''"soft Soft skills" ''' like - critical thinking, communication or collaboration. *'''community Community aspects''' like including reputation and status *'''new New skills''' like such as digital literacies. *'''specificSpecific, granular accomplishments or activities''' like - for example, leaving helpful comments for other learners, logging into an online learning web site for 10 consecutive days
====How different are badges from the information we provide in our résumés and CVs?====
In general, résumés and CVs are static in that they need to be updated and re-published. Badges can be more dynamic; where - new skills, competencies and knowledge are automatically published, and updated, after the badge is issued.
====What are the 21st century skills that may be better announced through badges than through other formats of skill communication?====
Badges could be better at announcing digital literacy and peer developed skills. There are current efforts where once digital literacy skills are demonstrated through there implementation the badge will be automatically issued (see - with [https://webmaker.org/ '''Mozilla webmaker / open badger initiative)'''], for example. Or with [https://p2pu.org/en/ '''P2PU '''] a peer assessment once successfully completed by peers will automatically issue a badge. Other approaches may also emerge as the use of badges increases and matures.* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/roadmap#Q3_Open_Badger_development'''Open Badger''']
====What kind of badge system designs exist? Where do we start when designing badge systems?====
This question can have many answers as badging systems can fit into many different learning contexts and situations. Reading and engaging in google Google group or searching on badge systems design can help greatly in building an understanding of badge systems design.
* https://groups.google.com/d/topic/openbadges/UypzXDmnlJA/discussion
* http://erinknight.com/post/23306245219/the-three-ts-of-badge-system-design
