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BadgeWidgetHack is a very basic, lightweight OBI-compliant badge displayer. The UI is not very sexy, but I figure that’s ok since you only have to use it once. After you walk through the wizard you receive some Javascript you can embed in your blog or elsewhere (see you can see it running at the bottom … Read more
I had a chance to learn more about Boundless last week. Extraordinarily interesting stuff. Boundless is definitely “an OER company.” A Boundless textbook is comprised of 95% or more pre-existing OER, with a very minimal amount of newly written material. Their development model appears to be as follows: take a popular textbook, analyze its structure … Read more
I’ve just started awarding the first badges from my graduate seminar, IPT 692R: Introduction to Open Education. You can see the first badges I’ve issued here (including some to people outside BYU): http://openeducation.us/badges-earned I’ve used a very lightweight mechanism for issuing badges through the Mozilla Open Badge Infrastructure that I want to share. I know … Read more
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