Wikimedia UK and Open Badges
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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.
Historic discussion
2013 discussion
The first discussion about Wikimedia UK using Open Badges took place in July 2013. It has been archived here
2012
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
Related links
- Peer to Peer School of Open - The next course open for registration 22 July. Might want to talk with Pete Forsyth.
- Program:Peer to Peer University/Writing Wikipedia Articles (2013 Q2) - Awards WIKISOO Burba badge which is OBI compliant.
- Wikipedia - Mozilla Open Badges - "The ability to issue badges was integrated into TotaraLMS for the 2.4 release[3]and Moodle for the 2.5 release"
- Open Badge Designer
- Digital Me Badge Canvas
- Graeme also created a very useful mindmap. This can be seen here.