Yesterday I had the privilege of attending a Hangout on Air with Verena Roberts. The purpose of the talk was to get a couple of people together to talk about the work Verena has been conducting in developing her open badge initiative, and questions that she has had along the way. You can (and should)…
TL;DR version: In this blog post I reflect on what I believe to be the most essential question behind development of a MOOC, or an open educational resource – WHY? I’ve been receiving this question a lot lately and wanted to share my thoughts on the work we’ve completed, and where we’re headed. Over the past couple…
TL;DR version: Drawing on work from critical evaluation and new literacies theory and research I posit the challenges and design opportunities that arise while considering cognitive authority and where you host your badges when developing your open badge initiative. Warning…what follows is somewhat theoretical…and bit academic. 😉 I’ve been detailing the development of our own open…
TL;DR Version: In this blog post I synthesize and share some of the feedback and commentary I’ve had while to make sense of the deletion of our open badges. This situation has been beneficial as it points to another layer of questions and considerations we must have while developing an open badge initiative. In the…
I learned a tough lesson yesterday. As I’ve detailed here on this blog, I’ve been involved in developing an open badge initiative to partner up with my ORMS model and MOOC. Over the past couple of months we’ve developed a series of open badges and uploaded them into badges.mozilla.org. Yesterday I went to my MOOC…
I had the opportunity this morning to “speak” to a great group of students in the Two Summers Program at UConn. I previously taught in the program and like to maintain connections with the faculty and students in the program. For this talk I video conferenced in using a Google Hangout on Air, and used…
As part of the Connected Learning MOOC, I wanted to share some of what I’ve learned about digital badges. Most of this learning has been documented here on my blog. I also pieced together a MindMap on Coggle to help me think through this framework. The goal of this blog post is to provide a…
TL;DR version: Documentation of the graphics, design choices, and rationale of iterations of the open badge initiative we’re completing for use in the Online Research & Media Skills learning community. As I have documented through a series of blog posts, we’ve been working on developing an open badge initiative. The badges will connect with completion and serve as…
As we have detailed several times in this blog, I’ve been hard at work researching, developing, and (hopefully) soon will be implementing an open badge initiative. To tell the truth, I’ve got a crack team of great graduate students that have been researching and pushing my thinking about badges…but I get to take the credit…
TL;DR version: As we continue to share our thinking and work as we develop an open badging initiative this post shares the results of our literature review on open badging systems…and an argument for their use in our pre-service teacher program. Please review and comment on our work. We’ve been busy here in the Education…