{"id":823,"date":"2015-07-12T23:41:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T22:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diglit.soton.ac.uk\/?p=823"},"modified":"2015-07-12T23:41:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T22:41:20","slug":"digital-badges-are-the-new-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/2015\/07\/12\/digital-badges-are-the-new-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Badges are the new black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diglit.soton.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/6149903271_8befdef954.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-824\" src=\"http:\/\/www.diglit.soton.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/6149903271_8befdef954-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mozilla Open Badges \" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;ve been playing around with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hastac.org\/collections\/digital-badges\" target=\"_blank\">Open Badges<\/a> for a while now and we have finally brought it all together. \u00a0The new iChamps badge provides scaffolding for learning and student development. \u00a0Made up of three milestone badges all the iChamps are working towards the Official iChamp Badge. \u00a0They will have gained skills for developing their online presence, workshops and the overall partnership working with academic teams across the university. \u00a0Every iChamp has the opportunity to gain recognition for their contribution to the fabric of the university. \u00a0The Institute for Learning Innovation and Development has been working hard to find the right tools for the job and we have opted for the <a href=\"https:\/\/openbadgefactory.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Badge Factory<\/a>. \u00a0It is a simple issuing system but gives a structure for quality assurance. \u00a0Students will be encouraged to display the badges within the <a href=\"https:\/\/openbadgepassport.com\/en\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Open Badge passport<\/a> but they could also look at displaying them in their <a href=\"https:\/\/backpack.openbadges.org\/backpack\/login\" target=\"_blank\">Mozilla Backpacks<\/a> or other tools such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redcritter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Red Critter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/47833020@N03\/6149903271\/\">m o z i l l a<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/compfight.com\">Compfight<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/help\/general\/#147\">cc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been playing around with Open Badges for a while now and we have finally brought it all together. \u00a0The new iChamps badge provides scaffolding for learning and student development. \u00a0Made up of three milestone badges all the iChamps are working towards the Official iChamp Badge. \u00a0They will have gained &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[493,498],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-literacies","category-student-champions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/test-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}