Open Badges MOOC Week 2 - They are born - user characters for badging

Characters in the story:

I have four personas that need to be born and here I'll shed some light on them:

1. Unicorn is a multi sector education provider that needs to stay innovative and have great outcomes to stay afloat. Unicorn has a rather singular vision of profit! (colour- white)

2. Whiskey is employed by Unicorn. Half techno-geek and half pedagogy-freak, Whiskey supports the LMS and also designs and delivers PD for sierra types. Whiskey needs to align the PD given with the goals and aspirations of Unicorn or not get paid! (colour - earth brown)

3. Tango are also employed by Unicorn and needs continual skill development for these reason a) keeping up with new technology b) Unicorn's demands on course development and c) Sierra expectations. Tango attends training by Whiskey to partly accomplish this and needs to be able to show this as a widely recognised achievement. Tango also have their eye open for new opportunities with other Unicorn like animals so looking for transferable, recognised skill sets. (colour - sea blue)

4. Sierra is enrolled at Unicorn. They expect the best education, could be located anywhere in the world. May be low tech literate and live remote from Unicorn's physical location or have high tech skills and live urban. Sierra needs evidence that future employers can easily understand their expertise gained while enrolled at Unicorn. Sierra needs to have this evidence recognised in an international context as they are highly mobile and likely to work outside of their current country location. (colour - copper red)

5. Lima was nearly forgotton in this story. Lima represents the Learning Management System or other systems that support Sierra. Lima is central to this story in a way because they are the ones that are baking and giving out paper cookies for good, well recognised behaviour and goal meeting. (colour - dusty green)

Further ideas to develop:

Create buttons or badges that represent each character
Create avatars for each one (doppelme?) and complete the challenges as a conversation. 
Use the 'call sign' analogy all the way through the challenges
Cookie/badge designs

Ecosystem (current)

How does this system work now? What is an ecosystem? My paraphrasing of wikipedia is the interaction of living and non-living things in the one area. We have these players listed above, some of which live and breath and Lima chugs along according to it's manipulations by the living things. A well balanced ecosystem means that it continues and is able to grow without any detriment to other ecosystems. Hopefully it would benefit other systems by it's outputs. Let's see what this might look like in a picture.

Before Badge User Story

This has got to be about Tango. Tango knows that they need continual skill development to use Lima to effectively get the message across to Sierra. However they are pushed for time and even though the PD sessions sound interesting. They have no support from the Unicorn to really attend these sessions. The benefits from these sessions are not really tangible. Tango needs some method of being able to track their time spent on developing their skills and developing their units in the Lima environment.