Doug Belshaw

Badges and Skills Lead: Mozilla

Area of Expertise:

Open Education Resources; mobile learning and digital literacies

Doug is Badges and Skills Lead at the Mozilla Foundation. In this role he evangelizes for Open Badges, a new way to recognize skills and achievements, as well as heading-up work around Web Literacies. Prior to Mozilla Doug worked at JISC infoNet and is a former teacher and Senior Leader in UK schools. Doug holds a BA (Hons) in Philosophy from the University of Sheffield, an MA in Modern History from Durham University, and an Ed.D. (also from Durham). His doctoral thesis is online at http://neverendingthesis.comand his personal website is at http://dougbelshaw.comhttp://dougbelshaw.com.