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By January 2015, Open Badges have been a subject of discussion for well over two years in the Wikimedian community. Wikimedia UK is now looking at ways we can make some actual progress on this.
By January 2015, Open Badges have been a subject of discussion for well over two years in the Wikimedian community. Wikimedia UK is now looking at ways we can make some actual progress on this.
==Meeting our Goals==
* [[Strategic_goals#G2a_Develop.2C_involve_and_engage_WMUK_volunteers|Strategic goal G2a.3]]: Open Badges provide a structure in which we can acknowledge the skills and capabilities of our volunteers in an evidence-based fashion.
==Situation in January 2015==
==Situation in January 2015==
Recent initiatives:
Recent initiatives:

Revision as of 12:39, 16 January 2015

By January 2015, Open Badges have been a subject of discussion for well over two years in the Wikimedian community. Wikimedia UK is now looking at ways we can make some actual progress on this.

Meeting our Goals

  • Strategic goal G2a.3: Open Badges provide a structure in which we can acknowledge the skills and capabilities of our volunteers in an evidence-based fashion.

Situation in January 2015

Recent initiatives:

Sweden

  • Our colleagues in Wikimedia Sweden have started using Open Badges in October 2014.
On translatewiki.net (scroll down a bit and you will see the badges described in English). Also see Utveckling (Development) which is in English. translatewiki.net is a web-based translation platform used to enhance Mediawiki

See Sara Mörtsell's blog, Using P2PU to Badge Swedish Educators’ MOOC

IdeaLab

Historic discussions

2013 discussion

A discussion about Wikimedia UK using Open Badges took place in July 2013. It has been archived here

2012

Panel discussion: Assessment and accreditation in an age of open learning
Doug Belshaw (The Mozilla Foundation), on Open Badges

Notes

Methods of verifying/issuing

  • Expert / Mentor
  • Peer
  • Self-Assessment
  • Algorithmic / programmatic
  • Stealth (through Backpack)

Types of badges

  • Affiliation
  • Participation
  • Skill / Activity
  • Cumulative
  • Badge system
  • Endorsement
  • Early adopters
  • Mentors
  • Silly / playful
  • Soft skills / non-cognitive
  • Hard skills / cognitive
  • One-offs

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