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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 3
Demystifying Microcredentials
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March 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
visualthinkery.bsky.social
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
November 6, 2024 at 2:00 PM
visualthinkery.bsky.social
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
The remixable hat tip.
November 14, 2024 at 10:59 PM
dougbelshaw.com
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
Elements of a badging policy
October 22, 2024 at 7:58 PM
dougbelshaw.com
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 6
Challenges and Risks in Microcredentialing
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April 4, 2025 at 7:30 AM
dougbelshaw.com
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
Badge Studio is back!
A simple, client-side way to generate badges for use in Open Badges and recognition projects.
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March 18, 2026 at 9:14 AM
dougbelshaw.com
What if badge images were views over recognition data, changing as your practice develops?

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#OpenBadges #OpenRecognition #VerifiableCredentials #DigitalBadges
Polygonal badges over three stages showing skills development
March 13, 2026 at 8:39 AM
weareopen.coop
Join us at the top of the hour for the Open Recognition is for Everybody (ORE) community call. All welcome!

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#OpenRecognition #OpenBadges #VerifiableCredentials #DigitalBadges #Microcredentials
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…
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February 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
dougbelshaw.com
Looking forward to presenting (virtually at the Awards Network event today!

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#DigitalCredential #DigitalBadges #OpenRecognition
Awards Network Annual Event - 4 Mar 2025
Awards Network Annual Event - 4 Mar 2025
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March 4, 2025 at 8:49 AM
weareopen.coop
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
Reframing Recognition: Part 1
Introduction and Context
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March 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
dougbelshaw.com
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
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
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November 6, 2024 at 5:28 PM
dougbelshaw.com
I write about learning, technology, systems, and open recognition, and share that work freely through Open Thinkering and related projects.

If you would like to support this, here is how: blog.dougbelshaw.com/support-my-w...

#OpenThinkering #OpenRecognition #DigitalLiteracies
One hand passing another hand a black paper heart
March 27, 2026 at 8:02 AM
dougbelshaw.com
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 7
A Vision for the Future of Microcredentials
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April 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
warwicklanguage.bsky.social
Are you interested in #openbadges and #openrecognition ? I'm a long time advocate openbadgepassport.com/app/badge/in...
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.
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January 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
weareopen.coop
Our collaborator @annekanne77.bsky.social presented at the Virtual Badge Summit earlier this week!
youtu.be/OFarjH25lRw
#OpenBadges

#OpenRecognition

#Feminism

#Intersectionality
Virtual Badge Summit 2024: Open Recognition is for Everybody – A Feminist Practice
YouTube video by We Are Open Co-op
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August 22, 2024 at 10:11 AM
weareopen.coop
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:
Using Open Recognition to Map Real-World Skills and Attributes
Part 1: From Folksonomy to Taxonomy
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October 24, 2024 at 9:00 AM
dougbelshaw.com
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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Using Open Recognition to Map Real-World Skills and Attributes
An overview of an idea, along with an MVP and wireframes, of how to create a platform to recognise skills in your network using Open Badges / Verifiable Credentials. Blog posts: - Part 1: https://blog.weareopen.coop/using-open-recognition-to-map-real-world-skills-and-attributes-1c1109c1b871 - Part 2: https://blog.weareopen.coop/using-open-recognition-to-map-real-world-skills-and-attributes-9506fcb4557f
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June 12, 2024 at 3:12 PM
weareopen.coop
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 2
The Evolution of Credentialing
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March 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM
weareopen.coop
We've been noodling on a new domain which pulls together some of our work around #DigitalCredentials

digitalcredentials.fyi

#OpenBadges #DigitalBadges #OpenRecognition #Microcredentials
Screenshot of digitalcredentials.fyi
February 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
weareopen.coop
New on the blog: Towards an Open Recognition Wallet

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#OpenRecognition #VerifiableCredentials #OpenBadges #DigitalBadges #Microcredentials
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…
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January 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
weareopen.coop
New on the blog:

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

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#OpenRecognition #OpenBadges
A Little Open Recognition Goes A Long Way
WAO at ePIC 2024
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November 12, 2024 at 10:41 AM
weareopen.coop
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
What is Open Recognition, anyway?
Going beyond credentialing and the formal/informal divide
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November 11, 2024 at 11:33 AM
weareopen.coop
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
August 5, 2024 at 12:00 PM
weareopen.coop
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
A Compendium of Credentialing
From badge design to the future of recognition in networks
blog.weareopen.coop
June 6, 2024 at 9:02 AM
weareopen.coop
New on the blog: Why Open Badges 3.0 matters

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#OpenBadges #VerifiableCredentials #Microcredentials #DigitalBadges #OpenRecognition
Why Open Badges 3.0 Matters
A less technical community-centric guide
blog.weareopen.coop
May 21, 2024 at 12:57 PM