• Task Navigation

  • 1. Week 1 - Core reading and research (13-19 August 2011)
  • 2. Week 2 - Negotiated focus and structure (20-26 August 2011)
  • 3. Week 3 - Learner Stories (27 August - 2 September)
  • 4. Week 4 - Evidence base for #openbadges (3-9 September 2011)
  • 5. Week 5 - Launch of grants for Open Badges (10-16 September 2011
  • 6. Week 6 - Questions about #DMLbadges

Week 5 - Launch of grants for Open Badges (10-16 September 2011

Task Discussion

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  Jacky Hood   Sept. 15, 2011, 11:18 a.m.

  The session today about the MacArthur grants for badges and research was really sensational! The ideas were at least as exciting as the competition. There were at least 8 speakers plus a panel discussion.
  
  A replay will be available eventually.
  
  Mozilla and MacArthur emphasized that this is an international competition.
  
  Stages of the badges competitions $10,000 to $200,000
  * Call for content
  * Call for badge design (sets or systems)
  * Matchmaking between content and design winners - one month of collaboration off-line and then a 2-day f2f including a pitch
  
  All must be part of the Mozilla badge infrastructure or interoperable with it: See http://www.dmlcompetition.net
  
  Research competition $5000 to $80,000: Interest-driven learning
  
  Not everyone loves the idea of badges: the panel moderator summarized these objections that showed up in tweets as "trivializing education" and "a badge for everything including showing up". See #dmlbadges
   

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  Doug Belshaw   Sept. 15, 2011, 3:15 a.m.

  I've added a bunch of links to the Diigo group about Open Badges here: http://groups.diigo.com/group/open-badges-and-assessment

  (the link is also at the bottom of the left-hand sidebar)

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  Doug Belshaw   Sept. 15, 2011, 2:57 a.m.

  Apologies for not being as active here as I intended over the last couple of weeks. I'm submitting my doctoral thesis in about 10 days time... :-/

  Today (Thursday 15th September 2011) is an important day for Mozilla's Open Badges project as they're announcing, along with the MacArthur Foundation, US Dept. of Education, NASA, etc. $2 million of grants for innovation in badges. The livestream starts at 9am EDT (which is 2pm BST by my reckoning)

  Will YOU be applying?

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  Thomas Gokey   Sept. 15, 2011, 3:22 a.m.
  In Reply To:   Doug Belshaw   Sept. 15, 2011, 2:57 a.m.

  I certianly will, but I'm still not entirely clear as to what kinds of projects qualify. I wish I could make the livestream but I'm busy today. Maybe they'll have more info after the announcement.

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  Doug Belshaw   Sept. 15, 2011, 4:05 a.m.
  In Reply To:   Thomas Gokey   Sept. 15, 2011, 3:22 a.m.

  I wondered that, too. Are international bids acceptable, for example? I'm soon all will become clear!

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  Thomas Gokey   Sept. 15, 2011, 9:48 a.m.
  In Reply To:   Doug Belshaw   Sept. 15, 2011, 4:05 a.m.

  Looks like all the info is up here:

  http://dmlcompetition.net/

   

  Since I'm looking at implementing badges in my class that starts Jan 2012, it looks like the timeline will be pretty tight. I hope they still consider our project.