September 15, 2011. This presentation was first given by Mozilla's Mark Surman. To learn more, visit www.openbadges.org

1. Open Badges
Making it easy to issue and display badges across the web
Open Badges is a project of Mozilla with
support from the MacArthur Foundation

2. What are badges?

3. badges = visual representations
of a skill or achievement

4. scouting may be the first example
that comes to mind

5. more and more, we see badges representing
achievements on the web

6. some are just for fun or social status

7. but increasingly the skills are real,
based on real tasks and work

8. reflecting technical and social abilities --
both of which employers are looking for

9. and willing to pay for ➔ jobs

10. What if we used badges for learning?

11. Open learning: Mozilla & P2PU’s School of Webcraft

12. After-school programs: iRemix

13. Museums & Science Centers:
American Museum of Natural History

14. Government agencies: NASA

15. Community Organizations: 4-H

16. What if we all used a shared
badge ecosystem and infrastructure?

17. Open Badges
➔ Mozilla’s Open Badges infrastructure

18. Open Badges

19. How does it work?

20. after-school program free online course government agency

22. DISPLAY SITES
personal web site job sites
social networking WordPress / Tumblr
profiles

23. RESULTS
jobs new unlock
learning opportunities

24. BADGE DISPLAY SITES
SUCCESS

25. What’s next?

26. Open Badges
first beta of Open Badges software ships today

27. Open Badges
first beta of Open Badges software ships today

28. DML competition also launches today

29. How can you
get involved?

30. http://www.dmlcompetition.net

31. http://openbadges.org

32. Open Badges
Making it easy to issue and display badges across the web
Open Badges is a project of Mozilla with
support from the MacArthur Foundation