Open Badges Open Doors
- Conference Year
- Online Northwest 2014
- Session
- 1
- Type
- Breakout Session
- Presenters
- Meggie Wright, Oregon State University
- Nate Otto, Indiana University
- Abstract
The Mozilla Foundation’s Open Badges are a new technology that makes it possible for anyone to issue, earn, and display proof of an educational achievement. Open Badges are digital tokens, like merit badges you might receive in the real world. They can be displayed on websites, job sites, and social media. Badges can be used to tell a clear, verifiable story about learning accomplishments, something that degrees and resumes often fail to do. Badges are shaking up education wherever and whenever learning happens, including in libraries. In this light workshop, find out how badges work, set up a “backpack,” earn your first badges, and talk about how this technology may impact our institutions’ roles in the learning ecosystem.
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