{"id":4396,"date":"2012-04-10T11:28:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T18:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/?p=4396"},"modified":"2014-04-20T23:56:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T06:56:31","slug":"mozilla-open-badges-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blogarchive\/blog\/2012\/04\/10\/mozilla-open-badges-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Open Badges ships Beta release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Mozilla Open Badges backpack\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_m28ke8PSnw1qeyuvt.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><em>Adding skills and achievements to your online identity<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/openbadges.org\">Mozilla&#8217;s Open Badges<\/a> project began in late 2010, it was little more than a demo and an audaciously big idea: <strong>what if we could use the web to create whole new ways to &#8220;show what you know?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, that big idea is becoming reality, with impressive partners and new Mozilla Open Badges<a href=\"http:\/\/openbadges.org\"> Beta software<\/a> coming together to test how digital badges can supercharge learning and identity.<\/p>\n<h3>Collaborators building badges on Mozilla software<\/h3>\n<p>Mozilla&#8217;s Open Badges project now includes leading partners like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macfound.org\/\">MacArthur Foundation<\/a>, impressive collaborators (including <strong>NASA<\/strong>, <strong>Intel<\/strong>, <strong>Disney-Pixar<\/strong>, <strong>4H<\/strong> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmlcompetition.net\/Competition\/4\/winners.php\">dozens of others<\/a> now building badge programs using Mozilla tools) and &#8212; thanks to today&#8217;s new Beta release of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/openbadges.org\">Mozilla&#8217;s Open Badges Infrastructure<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; publicly available software for badge issuers and developers to get on board and build with.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"NASA digital badge designs\" src=\"http:\/\/openmatt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/NASA-badges-for-learning.001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Integration with Mozilla Persona = adding skills and achievements to your online identity<\/h3>\n<p><strong>The new Beta release includes integration with<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/persona\/\">Mozilla Persona<\/a> (formerly BrowserID). This opens the door for users to create a single user-centric identity across the web, with tools like Mozilla Open Badges adding a &#8220;reputation layer&#8221; that provides a complete story about what they know and have achieved. All through an open, standards-based infrastructure that puts user sovereignty, privacy and security first.<\/p>\n<h3>Open Badges Beta: what&#8217;s new?<\/h3>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Beta release includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>New tools for badge issuers<\/strong>. A new and improved badge issuer API makes it easier for any organization to award their own digital badges for learning, skills or achievements.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New ways for users to manage their badges<\/strong>. Improvements to Mozilla&#8217;s &#8220;Badge Backpack&#8221; make it easier for users to store, manage, import and group badges earned from multiple sites through a single location.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New tools for badge displayers<\/strong>. A new displayer API will make it easier to display digital badges across the web, from personal web sites to social networking platforms.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New documentation and privacy features<\/strong>. Including an updated privacy policy, terms of use and FAQs for developers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Learn more and get involved:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/openbadges.org\/\">Mozilla Open Badges<\/a> &#8212; and earn your first badge<\/li>\n<li>Learn more about becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Badges\/Onboarding-Issuer\">badge issuer<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Badges\/Onboarding-Displayer\">displayer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/erinknight.com\/post\/20842609358\/obi-public-beta\">Read more about the Beta release<\/a> from Mozilla&#8217;s Senior Director of Learning, Erin Knight<\/li>\n<li>Developers: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mozilla\/openbadges\">access the source code and technical documentation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Join Mozilla Open Badges <a href=\"https:\/\/openbadges.etherpad.mozilla.org\/openbadges-community\">community calls<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adding skills and achievements to your online identity When Mozilla&#8217;s Open Badges project began in late 2010, it was little more than a demo and an audaciously big idea: what &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blogarchive\/blog\/2012\/04\/10\/mozilla-open-badges-beta\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[757],"tags":[4520,410,4883,5,72716,9598],"coauthors":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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