Badges

What is Mozilla's Open Badges project?

Learning today happens everywhere, not just in the classroom. But it's often difficult to get recognition for skills and achievements that happen outside of school. Mozilla's Open Badges project is working to solve that problem, making it easy for anyone to issue, earn and display badges across the web -- through a shared infrastructure that's free and open to all. The result: helping learners everywhere display 21st century skills, unlock career and educational opportunities, and level up in their life and work. Learn more.

• Participate in the "Badges for Learning" competition (run by MacArthur and HASTAC)

Learn more

• About Open Badges -- What are badges? How does it all work?
• White Paper -- An in-depth look at how badges can reinvent 21st century learning.
  
• User stories -- Everyday examples of badges in the real world.
  
• Technology -- Documentation and resources on how the underlying technology works.
  
• Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q.) -- Got questions? Start here.
  
• Pilot badge program -- Mozilla and P2PU's School of Webcraft badge program.
  
• Planet Open Badges -- Blog posts about Open Badges from a variety of sources
  
• Project team and tools -- Open Badges source code, issue tracker and communications tools.
  

• DML Competition: Badges for Lifelong Learning -- Interested in the HASTAC / MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition: Badges for Lifelong Learning?
  • Check out the winners from Stage 1
  • December 12, 2011: Stage 1 winners announced; Stage 2 begins
  • January 6, 2012, 5:00pm PT: deadline for Research competition submissions
  • January 17, 2012 5:00pm PT: deadline for Stage 2 submissions
  • January 31, 2012: Stage 2 winners announced, Research proposal winners announced; Stage 3 begins
• Click here to visit the competition website.

Get involved

• Participate in the DML Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition
• Offer feedback and advice through UserVoice (Feedback tab on openbadges.org)
• Join the Open Badges group mailing list to share your own ideas, tools and resources
  
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