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**REMINDER****

Stage One Applications to the Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition are due November 14, 2011 at 5pm PST/8pm EST.  
Find more information at http://www.dmlcompetition.net.
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NEW WEBINAR SCHEDULED: Stage 2 Preparation: Badge System Models and Design | Wednesday, Nov. 16 @ 3pm EST/Noon PST

In this webinar, we will delve deeper into the badge conversation and explore badge system design and development considerations. We will review different models of existing badge systems and discuss general guidelines and best practices. We will also walk prospective applicants through content, technological and team characteristics that should be considered when developing a badge system and putting together a proposal for Stage 2. 
  • Time: 3pm EST / 12pm PST 
  • Duration: 50 minutes 
  • Location: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/922871318    Advanced registration recommended, but not required. Webinar will open at 2:45 PM EST to allow registrants time to establish access to the webinar. 
  • Hosted by: Erin Knight, Assessment and Badge Project Lead, Mozilla and P2PU; Carla Casilli, Project Manager, Open Badges, Mozilla Foundation. Moderated by: Sheryl Grant, Director of Social Networking, HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition.
About the Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition 

The HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation’s Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition, launched in collaboration with the Mozilla Foundation, focuses on badges as a means to inspire learning, confirm accomplishment, or validate the acquisition of knowledge or skills. To learn more about the Badges Competition and the Research Competition, visit http://dmlcompetition.net. 

The Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition has launched a broad, open, critical, and constructive conversation about digital badges, visual representations of 21st century skills and achievements. We invite you to learn more about open badges and this Competition during a series of interactive webinars hosted by the Mozilla Foundation and the HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media & Learning Competition.

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HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition 4    
Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition

Find more information at: http://www.dmlcompetition.net

The Fourth HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition is now accepting Stage One applications from institutions/organizations with compelling learning content for which a badge or set of badges would be useful for recognizing and making visible learning that takes place in a particular area or topic.  Stage One applications are now due November 14th, see information below.  

This year’s Competition, held in collaboration with the Mozilla Foundation, focuses on badges for lifelong learning and explores digital badges as a means to inspire learning, confirm accomplishment, and/or validate the acquisition of knowledge or skills.

Awards will be made in two separate, but related competitions: Badges Competition and Research Competition

Badges Competition (three stages) 

Awards: $10,000 to $200,000

The Badges Competition is designed to encourage the creation of digital badges and badge systems that support, identify, recognize, measure, and account for new skills, competencies, knowledge, and achievements for 21st century learners wherever and whenever learning takes place. It is comprised of three stages, with finalists being chosen in Stages One and Two, and ultimately forming a collaborative team in Stage Three. It is this collaborative Stage Three proposal that is subject to award. Institutional/organizational applicants from outside of the United States are welcome to apply in any stage.
Who should apply: Institutions/organizations/legal entities from any sector and of any size--from a small non-profit to a large corporation--with compelling learning content,  activities, or programs for which a badge or set of badges would be useful for recognizing and making visible learning that takes place in a particular area or topic. 
Application requirements: 1,000 word description of your learning content and inclusion of optional supplementary materials that help visualize the proposed learning content, programs, or activities. 
Who should apply: Organizations, teams, or individuals skilled in design that are interested in submitting an early prototype for badge systems. These applicants will focus their designs on the content and programs proposed by either Stage One applicants or Digital Media and Learning Competition Collaborators (including Intel, Microsoft, NASA, Department of Education, American Library Association, Department of Labor, Department of Veteran Affairs, and more). 
Application requirements: Visual materials that graphically represent the proposed badge system, as well as a 1,500 word written description of how the badge system will perform. Mozilla’s Open Badge Infrastructure makes it easy to issue, display, and manage badges, and as such, platforms proposed by Stage Two applicants must work within the Open Badge Infrastructure standards and APIs (http://openbadges.org). Applicants are also encouraged to develop software and widgets that extend the Open Badge Infrastructure. 
No application needed--finalists from Stages One and Two will be selected to advance. Stage Three pairs Stage Two finalists with Stage One finalists and/or collaborators, to form comprehensive teams who will work together to finalize collaborative badge proposals.

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Research Competition: Badges, Trophies, and Achievements: Recognition and Accreditation for Informal and Interest-Driven Learning
Deadline: November 28, 2011, 5pm PST

5 Awards: $5,000 to $80,000
    • Research Grant: $60,000; Workshop/Working Group funding, in addition: $20,000 
    • Doctoral Student Grants (2): $20,000 
    • Student Prize: $5,000 
    • Faculty Prize: $5,000
The Research Competition is designed to encourage scholars to develop empirical and theoretical research focusing on how people assess, recognize, and display the learning that happens in informal learning and non-institutionalized settings. What are the emerging techniques and practices for managing reputation and recognizing learning? What are the broad historical and structural understandings of how accreditation operates in our changing social and cultural environment? What systems exist for recognizing learning outside of formal degree and training programs? How do credentials and other displays of achievement operate in the digital and networked world? What kinds of skills and experiences have not been well captured by existing credentialing and recognition systems? How is the landscape of credentialing changing (or not) with the shift to digital and networked society?

Studies should focus on areas such as: 
    • Ranking, badging, and achievement systems in games, clubs, competitions, and other forms of interest-driven activities.
    • Accreditation and certificates outside of formal degree programs, including areas such as work skills training, language, writing, and critical thinking capabilities, arts, crafts, and other trades.
    • The role of credentials, badges, and other recognitions of achievement in career and reputation development.
    • Empirical, theoretical, and critical studies of how companies, groups, institutions, and individuals produce, utilize, and exploit various credentialing and reputation systems.

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