Open Badges Issues (1): Asymmetry, Trust and Punishment

AboutOpen Badges Issues

and Opportunities!

Serge Ravet

EUROPO

RTF

OLIO

ADPIOS, EUROPORTFOLIO

Wednesday, 18 December 13

Asymmetry&

Rewards


OBIAsymmetry


Unanswered questionYou can trust me Fine, but

why should I trust you?


Power asymmetry

AuthorityWednesday, 18 December 13

System asymmetry


System fragmentation


Consequences


Trust fragmentation


Centre

Periphery


A Network has no Centre!


OBI is not (yet) a trust infrastructure


Next Step?


From To


Open Badges asRewards


"They gave fifty-one preschoolers a chance to draw with Magic Markers. Some of them, however, were told that if they drew pictures they would each receive a special, personalized certificate, decorated with a red ribbon and a gold star.

Between a week and two weeks later, the children were observed in their classrooms.

Those who had been told in advance of the certificate they would receive, Lepper discovered, now seemed to be less interested in drawing with Magic Markers than the other children were—and less interested than they themselves had been before the reward was offered."

Certificate

Open Badge Punished by Rewards p. 70


Why would anyone expect that replacing “a special, personalized certificate, decorated with a red ribbon and a gold star” with an Open Badge bring any different results??


Possible Developments?


Open Badges as the elementary blocks of

Trusted Identities


End Asymmetry Now!


Merci !

Serge Ravet

EUROPO

RTF

OLIO

ADPIOS, EUROPORTFOLIO

@szerge


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Open Badges Issues (1): Asymmetry, Trust and Punishment