Useful Badge Sites

After looking around the web a bit the following lists the useful badge sites I have encountered. I will continue to update as I find more. The following video specifically talks about Mozilla Open Badges, which are the bleeding-edge badge technology, although not the only badge technology by any means:

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLzSHtE7UBQ&w=560&h=315]

See <a href="http://thegenerallifeblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/digital-badges-as-new-credentials.html">this article for more commentary on what a badge is exactly, including a more general idea of a badge, not necessarily an open badge.

Be sure to integrate your badges with <a href="http://www.degreed.com">Degreed!

On to the list of badges! This list also includes some sites using open badge's close cousin, open credit. "Closed" in parentheses indicates that the badge is not Mozilla Open Badge nor open credit compliant:

• Khan Academy
• OpenAcademy - A US-Accredited High School Diploma!
• Credly
• P2PU
• IP&T EdTec
• Coderbits
• Mozilla Webmaker
• Credly
• 3DGameLab
• BadgeOS
• Codeschool
• Treehouse
• MRUniversity
• Brainbench

Expect more familiar and mainstream names to pick this up soon. Numerous universities including well known ones like UIUC are picking this up in the near future as well as numerous businesses including Microsoft.