Recognition Badges

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"There has been an increasing use of badges across a number of Web sites, network services, and gaming platforms over the last several years. Badges are used for a variety of reasons including rewarding achievement, encouraging different forms of user engagement, or simply for the fun of it.

Badges can provide a good way for potential friends, collaborators, co-workers and employers to size you up. However, that’s only true if they can associate all your badges with you. Thus, an idea was suggested for creating a badge backpack that could allow you to store badges that you have picked-up from many different sites across the web and to associate them with you (your online identity). You could then push these badges from your backpack out to other sites, such as blogs, resume or job sites, or to other sites that support badges.

One especially exciting context to explore the idea of badges is in the world of open learning. Badges provide a way for learning communities to coordinate and collaborate if badges carry some meaning across different sites or projects. Further, badges provide an interesting context through which the educational community can explore new models of educational assessment and certification." (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Overview)


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See also:

  1. Joshua Gay's blog post on 10 badge systems, http://joshuagay.org/blog/?p=32
  2. Mark Surman's blog post Badges, identity and you, http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/badges-identity-and-you/