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When Mozilla’s Open Badges<\/a> project began in late 2010, it was little more than a demo and an audaciously big idea: what if we could use the web to create whole new ways to “show what you know?”<\/strong><\/p>\n Today, that big idea is becoming reality, with impressive partners and new Mozilla Open Badges Beta software<\/a> coming together to test how digital badges can supercharge learning and identity.<\/p>\n Mozilla’s Open Badges project now includes leading partners like the MacArthur Foundation<\/a>, impressive collaborators (including NASA<\/strong>, Intel<\/strong>, Disney-Pixar<\/strong>, 4H<\/strong> and dozens of others<\/a> now building badge programs using Mozilla tools) and — thanks to today’s new Beta release of Mozilla’s Open Badges Infrastructure<\/a><\/strong> — publicly available software for badge issuers and developers to get on board and build with.<\/p>\n The new Beta release includes integration with<\/strong> 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 “reputation layer” 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 Today’s Beta release includes:<\/p>\n Adding skills and achievements to your online identity When Mozilla’s Open Badges project began in late 2010, it was little more than a demo and an audaciously big idea: what … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4521],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press-uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Collaborators building badges on Mozilla software<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nIntegration with Mozilla Persona = adding skills and achievements to your online identity<\/h3>\n
Open Badges Beta: what’s new?<\/h3>\n
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