Julia Hengstler

I'm wondering if there should be some taxonomy for badges like:

• self-declared, industry-defined, academia-defined, organization-defined?
• automatically generated? peer reviewed? mentor reviewed?
• others?

Patric, I think visually you bring up a good question. Like with good branding, if a set of badges build collectively to a specific credential, should they have similar visual elements? Should a component of the badge reflect the issuer? Eg. like the Purdue Passport?

I think that badge collection speaks to the gamification of education that is emerging. We have so many kids in a generation immersed in electronic play--leveling up, gaining digital badges of cyber materials to leverage for higher play.

What a great badge design for conflict resolution! It think the human figures in different colours who appear to be holding hands around a table is highly emblematic! I think that scalability gets effected when text is incorporated into the badge. For example, I think the graphic can be reduced quite a bit and still hold its message--but the text doesn't.

I think the transparency of who granted the badge for what tasks/skills demonstrated is critical--like a registry. Others could then accept badges as credentials based on who's issuing and what criteria. I think that others accepting badges would want some type of sampling of how the criteria are applied....hmm.