Mozilla
Making skills & learning visible and discoverable with Open Badges
Open Badges is a global standard that seeded the digital micro-credentialing movement. It was created to recognise and verify learning wherever and whenever it happens, and enable skills recognition to be shared across the web. Grainne Hamilton contributed to the standard’s development from conceptualisation by Mozilla through to its stewardship by IMS Global (now 1EdTech). Services delivered included contributing authorship to the standard; contracting with Mozilla to create the concept and blueprints for Open Badge Pathways with the Open Badges team; aiding in the transition from Mozilla to IMS Global; founding the world’s first national Open Badges network; informing the creation of an open badge platform (the OBA); and steering group membership of the Open Badge Network, which provided recommendations for policy on digital credentials in the European Union.
Services
Authorship
Concept creation
Research
Concept architecture
Collaborative design sessions
UX / UI design
Wireframing
Implementation tools
Recommendations for policy
Moderating
Open community contribution
Top 5
Global companies use the Open Badge standard for digital credentialing
74m+
Open Badges issued (as of 2022; findings from 1EdTech & Credential Engine)
1st
development to revolutionise recognition by initiating multi-sectoral initiatives and global policy on digital credentialing
1st
National network in the world to research Open Badge application across sectors & services



Regenerating Learning and Recognition with Open Badges
10 years on, has the Open Badge standard delivered the paradigm shift it promised?
Dec 17, 2021
Open Badges in 2020
What’s next, based on distance travelled in 2019?
Jan 17, 2020
7 trends I spotted in Open Badges in 2019
A retrospective on developments over the course of last year.
Jan 17, 2019