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I write about learning, technology, systems, and open recognition, and share that work freely through Open Thinkering and related projects.

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Badge Studio is back! A simple, client-side way to generate badges for use in Open Badges and recognition projects.

I've forked @andrewhayward.net'ss Badge Studio from our Mozilla days, removed the branding, updated the codebase, and added a randomise button.

Free to use, free to fork!

👉 blog.dougbelshaw.com/badge-studio-is-back/

#OpenBadges #OpenRecognition

Polygonal badges over three stages showing skills development

What if badge images were views over recognition data, changing as your practice develops?

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#OpenBadges #OpenRecognition #VerifiableCredentials #DigitalBadges

Thinking in public. Scary but part of a scaffold I’m trying to build. #OSE #OpenScholarship #OpenScience #ScholarlyCommunication
#OpenRecognition #LifelongLearning #HigherEducation

Bologna Open Recognition Declaration Signatory The owner of this Badge supports the Bologna Open Recognition Declaration.

Recognition should travel as freely as learning itself.
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#OpenRecognition #LifelongLearning #OSE #RecognitionWithoutBorders

ORE Community Call · Zoom · Luma Come and join the Open Recognition is for Everybody (ORE) Community Call! We'll be getting to know each other and talk about the things that are on our minds…

It's the monthly #OpenRecognition community call tomorrow! You, (new/existing) community member, are welcome: lu.ma/zg2b7zn5

Reframing Recognition: Part 7 A Vision for the Future of Microcredentials

The final post in a series highlighting the key points from a report that @weareopen.coop wrote on #microcredentials for the Irish National Digital Leadership Network (NDLN)

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#OpenBadges #VerifiableCredentials #OpenRecognition #DigitalBadges #DigitalCredentials

Reframing Recognition: Part 6 Challenges and Risks in Microcredentialing

Part 6 of a seven-part series teasing out the main parts of an NDLN report into #microcredentials

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#OpenBadges #VerifiableCredentials #OpenRecognition #DigitalBadges #DigitalCredentials

Reframing Recognition: Part 3 Demystifying Microcredentials

Part 3 of our seven(!) part series introducing a new report on digital and micro credentials for the NDLN is now out:

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@ntutorr.ie #VerifiableCredentials #OpenBadges #OpenRecognition #Microcredentials #DigitalBadges

Reframing Recognition: Part 2 The Evolution of Credentialing

The second in a series of posts highlighting themes from our NDLN report on #microcredentials

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#OpenRecognition #OpenBadges #VerifiableCredentials #DigitalCredentials #DigitalBadges

Reframing Recognition: Part 1 Introduction and Context

We recently authored a report for the Irish NDLN on the transformative potential of micro and digital credentialing in recognising learning and achievements.

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#Microcredentials #DigitalCredentials #OpenBadges #VerifiableCredentials #OpenREcognition #DigitalBadges

Awards Network Annual Event - 4 Mar 2025 Awards Network Annual Event - 4 Mar 2025

Looking forward to presenting (virtually at the Awards Network event today!

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#DigitalCredential #DigitalBadges #OpenRecognition

ORE Community Call · Zoom · Luma Come and join the Open Recognition is for Everybody (ORE) Community Call! We'll be getting to know each other and talk about the things that are on our minds…

Join us at the top of the hour for the Open Recognition is for Everybody (ORE) community call. All welcome!

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We've been noodling on a new domain which pulls together some of our work around #DigitalCredentials

digitalcredentials.fyi

#OpenBadges #DigitalBadges #OpenRecognition #Microcredentials

The Essential Elements of Digital Credentials As an expert in digital recognition, Doug Belshaw reveals the magic of digital credentialing with engaging, practical insights to empower your journey.

Would YOU be interested in reading this book? Experiment #5 is using LeanPub to publish about #DigitalCredentials leanpub.com/digitalcrede...

#OpenBadges #VerifiableCredentials #OpenRecognition #Microcredentials

The O.G. This badge is issued to people who have been members of the community since before IMS Global took over stewardship of the Open Badges specification on 1st January 2017.

Are you interested in #openbadges and #openrecognition ? I'm a long time advocate openbadgepassport.com/app/badge/in...

Towards an Open Recognition Wallet Note: this post builds upon ideas we presented at ePIC 2024, and a couple of in-depth posts about using Open Recognition to map real-world…

New on the blog: Towards an Open Recognition Wallet

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#OpenRecognition #VerifiableCredentials #OpenBadges #DigitalBadges #Microcredentials

The remixable hat tip.

The remixable Hat Tip is born. It's purpose built to uplift a human's appreciation for another human with a little informal gesture of recognition.

Why not tip your hat to someone you connected with?

remixer.visualthinkery.com/a/hattip

#openrecognition #oeglobal24

A Little Open Recognition Goes A Long Way WAO at ePIC 2024

New on the blog:

A Little Open Recognition Goes A Long Way: WAO at ePIC 2024

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What is Open Recognition, anyway? Going beyond credentialing and the formal/informal divide

Thanks to a fantastic ePIC 2024 in Paris last week, there are even more people paying attention to the concept of #OpenRecognition. But what is it?

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#openepic #OpenBadges #VerifiableCredentials #microcredentials #DigitalBadges

ePIC 2024 workshop Human-centric Open Recognition Synthesis, Mapping, and Badge Creation Using AI Tools Doug Belshaw & Laura Hilliger ePIC 2024, Paris https://bit.ly/wao-epic24-workshop

This morning at ePIC 2024 I ran a workshop in the main auditorium(!) on the use of #AI in #OpenRecognition.

Here's the slide deck with links to the GPT I created to conversationally map skills against various taxonomies.

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#OpenBadges #VerifiableCredentials

What creates the spark behind an illustration? There’s nothing I love better than playing idea ping-pong with a co-collaborator.

This illustration was created for a series of credentialing workshops with Badge guru Doug Belshaw for the N-TUTORR project.

#OpenRecognition #DigitalBadges #OpenBadges

Using Open Recognition to Map Real-World Skills and Attributes Part 1: From Folksonomy to Taxonomy

Later today we'll be presenting our findings for the Jobs for the Future and International Rescue Committee research we did on an #LER pilot. We're always thinking about how to encourage more #openrecognition:

Elements of a badging policy

Today @visualthinkery.bsky.social and I ran a workshop for N-TUTORR on developing a badging/recognition policy

I love the way Bryan captured our suggested elements of a badging policy. A link to the sample policy is in the slide deck: docs.google.com/presentation...

#OpenBadges #Openrecognition

Our collaborator @annekanne77.bsky.social presented at the Virtual Badge Summit earlier this week!
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#OpenBadges

#OpenRecognition

#Feminism

#Intersectionality

The crew at We Are Open has SUPER BIG FOMO about #BadgeSummit! Have a great time to all our friends in the ORE community and beyond!

#openrecognition #digitalcredentials #verifiablecredentials

TFW when you have to create a video to give an overview of two blog posts because no-one reads any more

#OpenBadges #DigitalCredentials #VerifiableCredentials #Microcredentials #OpenRecognition

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A Compendium of Credentialing From badge design to the future of recognition in networks

We've written approximately eleventy billion posts on #OpenBadges #OpenRecognition and #VerifiableCredentials. We've curated some of them to serve as a useful place to point people towards:

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#microcredentials #DigitalCredentials #SkillsBasedHiring

Why Open Badges 3.0 Matters A less technical community-centric guide

New on the blog: Why Open Badges 3.0 matters

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#OpenBadges #VerifiableCredentials #Microcredentials #DigitalBadges #OpenRecognition

Plausible Utopias: the future of Open Recognition Exploring the Evolution of Trust in Networks Over the Next Decade

New on the blog from @dougbelshaw.com with input from @epilepticrabbit.bsky.social. Images by @visualthinkery.bsky.social

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#OpenRecognition #OpenBadges #VerifiableCredentials