This article is divided into four chapters recounting key episodes in the journey of REVEAL, an Erasmus+ project, exploring the potential of Open badges to create Local Recognition Networks (LRNs):

• Authoring the project: when the project was submitted we believed that
            Open Badges would work wonders!
• Facing the reality: then we had to face a hard truth:
            Open Badges didn’t work as expected!
• Adjusting to reality: it is when we realised that we didn’t need Open Badges to recognise:
            Before the Open Badge was… the word!
• Reinventing Open Badges: Open Badges were back, but from a different perspective:
           Beyond Open Badges: Open Recognition!

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Table of contents

• Open Badges will work wonders!
  • About REVEAL
  • Recognition as emancipatory practice
  • From Open Badges to Open Recognition
  • Opening up access to recognition
  • The REVEAL Maturity Model
  • The promise of Open Badges in achieving REVEAL goals
• Open Badges don’t work as expected!
  • About formal, non-formal and informal recognition
  • Open Badges: who do they really empower?
  • Exploring the limits of Open Badges platforms
• Before the Open Badge was… the word!
  • Building Local Recognition Networks
  • Articulating individual and community recognition
  • How can Open Badges become obstacles to recognition?
  • Building iREVEAL
• Beyond Open Badges: Open Recognition!
  • Articulating individual and collective recognition
  • Transforming (mis)recognition into action
  • Making Open Badges actionable
  • REVEAL meets ORCA
  • Conclusion

Quotes

“Open Recognition is to recognition what Open Learning is to learning”

“Informal learning and recognition is not a landfill where everything that is neither formal or non-formal can be disposed of, but rather the cradle of all learning and recognition, including formal.“