Open Badges 101. Open Badges and Proficiency-Based Education: A Path to a New Age of Enlightenment. A major and tremendously promising opportunity has emerged to achieve a new Age of Enlightenment through technology and to enable large numbers of people to desire, seek out, and enjoy learning.
Open Badges are an initiative spearheaded by Mozilla but made available to virtually any organization in an open-source, non-restrictive manner. Open Badges can make learning appealing to many by rewarding concrete and discrete achievements – whether it be mastering a skill, performing a specific task, participating in an event, meeting a certain set of standards, or possessing a valuable combination of “soft skills” that might otherwise go unrecognized. But even beyond this, Open Badges allow for the portability of skill recognition in a manner that far outperforms the compartmentalization present in many of today’s formal institutions of schooling, accreditation, and employment.
Individuals would no longer need to “prove themselves” anew every time they interact with a new institution. School of Ed (pilot) Student Grant Writing. Making Writing and Literacy Learning Connections. A great way to motivate and inspire your students! Printable 3D Skill Badge by TheNewHobbyist.