In 2011, Mozilla created Open Badges with funding from the MacArthur Foundation and a network of partners committed to developing a new way to recognize and connect learning anytime, any place, and any pace. Since then a growing community of … Continue reading
At Mozilla, we’re devoted to empowering individuals on the Web. This means creating tools and communities that teach important digital-age skills. It also means helping to build a technical ecosystem for recognizing and showcasing these skills. In 2011, Mozilla and … Continue reading
As Maker Party continues, we’re continuing to listen to feedback from the Webmaker community. Based on comments from people like you, we’ve launched three additional badges to join the existing 18 Webmaker badges: Teaching Kit Remixer Web Literacy … Continue reading
Following up from yesterday’s post about the new Hive Community Member badge, we’re pleased to announce 15 new Web Literacy ‘maker’ badges. After being tested by Webmaker Mentors and Webmaker Super Mentors they are now ready to be … Continue reading
Hive Learning Networks are a growing constellation of communities around the globe that are championing digital skills and web literacy through connected learning. We’re excited to announce that starting today, we’ll be recognizing the individuals who contribute to Hive’s growth … Continue reading
Thanks to everyone who took the time to test the application process for these badges! We’re now moving on to test the ability for Webmaker Mentors and Super Mentors to issue them. For more details, check out this etherpad. … Continue reading
This year Webmaker is using the Open Badges Infrastructure (OBI) – and the newly-minted BadgeKit – to issue Webmaker badges. The first of these will be a Super Mentor badge. (note that the badge won’t look like the image to … Continue reading
Amongst the cheerful clamor of hundreds of educators connecting at the Digital Media & Learning this year, I’ve heard some pretty amazing thoughts from some pretty amazing people on how to reform education. And although I’ve talked to participants and … Continue reading
TLDR = quick summary of what’s up with Mozilla Webmaker this week. Notes from Tuesday’s Webmaker community call Join the next one stay in touch | past updates Open Badges 1.0: coverage, reaction and new demos The Mozilla blog post … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Maibe Ponet, Senior Director of Digital Fitness Innovation at the YMCA for Greater New York. We wanted to take a moment to share our impressions of how digital media and technology are (or are … Continue reading
