[Geoinquiets Barcelona] Fwd: Master a new skill? Here's your badge

Fri Sep 9 03:40:41 EDT 2011

Interesante proyecto.

Geoinquietos podría ser como un evaluador (o poner preguntas) en el area de
SIG.

Es solo una idea.

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> [image: Open Badges Project]Earning badges for learning new things is an
> entrenched idea. Legions of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts have decorated
> their sashes with badges, demonstrating their mastery of various skills. A
> badge is a symbol of personal achievement that's acknowledged by others.**
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> The Mozilla Foundation <http://www.mozilla.org/> and Peer-to-Peer
> University <http://p2pu.org/en/> (P2PU), among others, are working to
> create an alternative — and recognized — form of certification that combines
> merit-earned badges with an open framework. The Open Badges Project<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges>will allow skills and competencies to be tracked, assessed, and showcased.
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> In the interview below, I talk with the project director, Mozilla's Erin
> Knight (@eknight <http://twitter.com/eknight>), about the genesis and
> goals of the Open Badges initiative.****
> How did the Open Badges project come about?****
>
> *Erin Knight:* At the core, it's really just a general acknowledgement
> that learning looks very different today than traditionally imagined.
> Legitimate and interest-driven learning is occurring through a multitude of
> channels outside of formal education, and yet much of that learning does not
> "count" in today's world. There is no real way to demonstrate that learning
> and transfer it across contexts or use it for real results. ****
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> We feel this is where badges can come in — they can provide evidence of
> learning, regardless of where it occurs or what it involves, and give
> learners tangible recognition for their skills, achievements, interests and
> affiliations that they can carry with them and share with key stakeholders,
> such as potential employers, formal institutions or peer communities.****
>
> This problem space is particularly interesting and important to Mozilla for
> a couple of reasons: ****
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>    1. It is our mission to promote the open web, get more people involved
>    in making it and help people capitalize on the benefits and affordances of
>    it. There is so much learning that is occurring, or could occur, through the
>    web — through open education opportunities like P2PU <http://p2pu.org>,
>    information hubs like Wikipedia <http://wikipedia.org>, and even social
>    media. We want to help people capitalize on these opportunities and make
>    this learning count and get them real results. ****
>    2. We also care about supporting and encouraging more people to become
>    open web developers, and much of this learning is typically based on social,
>    informal and personal experiences and work. For example, you may look at
>    someone else's code on github to figure out how to solve a specific problem
>    or tinker on your own to develop a deeper mastery. None of this is taught
>    through a formal curriculum, and in fact, the space moves so quickly that
>    formal curricula are often outdated by the time they can put a syllabus
>    together. We want a way to acknowledge the work and skills of web developers
>    at all stages of their careers, both to motivate them to learn new skills
>    and become better as well as to connect them with jobs and opportunities.
>    ****
>
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> being held Oct. 10-13, showcases the latest Web 2.0 business models,
> development tools and design strategies for the builders of the
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> Tell me about the technology infrastructure behind the Open Badges system.
> How do you validate a badge?****
>
> *Erin Knight:* One piece of the Open Badges initiative is the Open Badge
> Infrastructure<https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/a/aa/Open_Badges_--_tech-diagram-_2.2.jpg>(OBI). This came out of early conversations. We spent a lot of time talking
> about core aspects of an individual badge system: What are the badges? What
> does assessment look like? How do we ensure validity? We realized quite
> quickly that to truly solve the problems we are trying to solve and to
> support learners wherever they are learning, we were not just talking about
> a badge system, but a badge ecosystem. ****
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> In this ecosystem, there would be many badge issuers offering different
> types of badges for different learning experiences, and each learner could
> earn badges across issuers and experiences. This requires that badge systems
> work together and are interoperable for the learner. ****
>
> The big missing piece was a core infrastructure that could support a
> multitude of issuers, allow a learner to collect badges into a single
> collection tied to his or her identity, and then connect to many display
> sites or consumers to extend the value of the badges. This middle "plumbing"
> needs to be open and decentralized because if this is as successful as we
> all think it can be, we are talking about critical identity information
> here. It's important that the user remain in complete control.****
>
> We're building this to be as open and decentralized as possible. All
> elements, including the Hub, or main badge manifest repository, and the
> Backpack(s) — the user interface on the Hub (users will have their own
> Backpacks showing them all of their badges and allowing them to manage,
> control and share out badges) — are being built open source and extensible
> so that anyone can create their own instance. Mozilla will build and host
> the reference implementations, but we want to support decentralization as
> much as possible. ****
>
> We're also working with a large advisory group with representation that
> spans informal education providers, academia, federal agencies, and
> development communities to make sure that all of our assumptions and
> approaches are fully vetted and thought through from multiple perspectives
> and interests. And finally, we're building this to be as lightweight as
> possible, especially at this point so early in the game, and pushing the
> innovation to the edge. This means that issuers completely control and
> decide what their badges are, how they are earned, and so forth. And on the
> other end, displayers control how badges are displayed, such as with filters
> or visualizations, etc. We want the OBI to support innovation, not constrain
> it in any way.****
> How do badges benefit learners and badge issuers?****
>
> *Erin Knight:* The OBI supports an open and decentralized badge ecosystem
> where the value of learning experiences can be extended to very real results
> very easily. It gives the learners the ability to earn lots of different
> badges across lots of different experiences and not only combine them into
> one big collection, but remix them into subgroups to share with specific
> audiences. This allows learners to tell complete stories about themselves,
> backed by the badges and the evidence they are linked to.****
>
> For the issuers, the platform allows them to support the learners further,
> extend the value of the opportunities they provide, and promote themselves
> through the badges. For the displayers, they can pull more information
> backed by evidence into profiles, job opportunities, etc., as well as
> discover people based on badges.****
> Is there a connection between the Open Badges project and gamification<http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/04/gamification-purpose-marketing.html>
> ?****
>
> *Erin Knight:* There is an element of gamification in all of this in that
> we've all experienced badges or levels in games, and we know that they can
> be motivating. That's important. Badges will range from smaller motivational
> badges, to larger certification-type badges, but as people are designing
> badge systems, many of the principles of game design do and should apply.
> Badges from game providers will be important for the ecosystem because they
> represent reputation, identity and achievement that will be valuable for
> some users in various contexts. ****
> Where does the Open Badges project go from here?****
>
> *Erin Knight:* We're working on developing a number of badge systems for
> Mozilla projects, including the School of Webcraft<https://drumbeat.org/en-US/projects/school-of-webcraft/>;
> a partnership with P2PU <http://p2pu.org/en/> offering free, open
> opportunities for web developer training; and Hackasaurus<http://hackasaurus.org/>,
> a program to get youth involved in hacking and building the open web. ****
>
> On the Open Badge Infrastructure front, the goal is for this to be
> completely open and accessible to anyone who wants to be an issuer (push
> badges in) or a displayer/consumer (pull badges out). We are developing and
> releasing a set of APIs and a badge metadata spec, and we're launching the
> beta version of the OBI by mid September. It will be a critical
> feature-complete infrastructure with a number of initial issuers. ****
>
> Anyone interested in participating in that beta can contact me via Twitter
> @eknight <http://twitter.com/eknight>. We plan to publicly release the
> OBI, the metadata spec and APIs in early January 2012. At that point, all
> the documentation and code samples will be there so anyone can plug in. For
> more information, people can check out MozillaWiki<http://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges>and "An
> Open Badge System Framework <http://bit.ly/badgepaper4>."****
>
> *This interview was edited and condensed.*****
>
> *Related*****
>
>    - The purpose of gamification<http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/04/gamification-purpose-marketing.html>
>    ****
>    - Tinkering with technology education<http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/06/education-maker-technology.html>
>    ****
>    - How data and analytics can improve education<http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/07/education-data-analytics-learning.html>
>    ****
>    - Gaming education<http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/10/gaming-education.html>
>    ****
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