Badging and Beyond: Rubrics and Building a Culture of Recognition as Com
summary
Argues that badges track and verify specific skills but do not replace personal recognition, and shows concrete tooling and results: Open Badges and a badge pathways prototype that maps skills to career steps, a recognition toolkit, contributor stories and a public monument, plus crafty swag (socks, knitted scarves). Gives one metric—3,000 people earned a support badge for 100+ tweets—explains automated badges vs. human acknowledgment, and shows badges working for credentialing but not for personal visibility.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Recognition and badges intro
- 1:32Recognition preferences survey
- 8:02Badges in open source
- 10:47Culture of recognition
- 18:00Recognition methods discussion
- 23:04Personalizing recognition
- 27:23Crafty recognition ideas
- 32:45Badge systems demo
- 38:47Recognition tools
- 40:34Closing remarks
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