November 9 – 11, 2012
London, UK | Ravensbourne
Digital badges can help unlock the full learning potential of the web. In this track, you’ll test out badging ideas and implementations, take the conversation beyond “Badges 101,” work with the UK badges community, and create new learning projects and badges together.
Come join us on the 2nd floor in Room 209! Are you passionate about openness (open kitten photos, open textbooks, open data, open anything!) — but don’t quite know how to explain it to your mom? Or maybe you just want to learn more about how “open” can help you. Come join a community of [...]
Open Badges are a relatively new concept in UK education – both formal and informal. Unlike in the US where there are a number of DML Competition-funded projects mid-way through their work, there is only one of these in the UK (Supporter2Reporter). Nevertheless, there are a number of people already doing some work in the [...]
The Open Badges team is rolling out user experience enhancements to the Badge Backpack; which is where an earner collects, manages, groups and shares their badges. Badge earners will get to experience the Backpack, including: Going to a site that issues Open Badge Infrastructure compatible badges like Webmaker; Earning badges; Setting up a Backpack account; [...]
Our session will explore how we can use badges to reward employee volunteers in companies, and use these badges to raise more money for charitable causes. We know that people who volunteer are more likely to give more money to charitable causes. We also know lots of companies that want to promote volunteering among their [...]
Since winning a prize in the 4th Digital Media and Learning Competition, DigitalMe and schools based social learning platform Makewaves have been piloting the Mozilla Open Badges system for our S2R Medals project. We’ve been developing an exciting new way to recognise and reward the skills young people develop by taking part in our award [...]
What does it mean to ‘level up’ with web skills? Join us as we talk about version 0.9 of Mozilla’s web literacies white paper. Have some input as we develop our thinking further and use it to power Webmaker badges. We’ll give you an overview of our latest work and then ask for your input. [...]
Badge Bingo is an interactive, festival-long, game where MozFest attendees use digital badges they earn to connect 5 in a row! Digital badges recognize and connect skills and achievements that happen anytime and anywhere. Participants will be able to issue and receive badges across various issuing platforms and earn badges for learning new web skills [...]