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Creating a new learning currency with Open Badges
Gráinne Hamilton @grainnehamilton [email protected]
What are open badges?
A web standard which captures & communicates skills and attributes
Silo 1 Silo 2
Silo 4
Formal qualifications
After schoolclub certificates
Onlinelearning
Silo 3
Professional development
Badges in NumbersMarch 2015: - 14,000 issuers worldwide - 2 Million badges issued - 342,300 badges sent to backpacks - 88,585 backpacks
What’s happening?April 2015: - IMS announcement
May 2015: - Endorsement and annotation built
into OBI
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IMS Digital Credentialing Initiative
• Establish Digital Badges as common currency for K-20 and corporate education
• Partnership with Mozilla • Further adoption,
integration and transferability
• Extend digital transcripts and competency-based education interoperability
From Flickr, William Warby, Pound Coins CC By 2.0
Endorsement:
A method of publishing approval or acceptance of
Open Badges using an extension to the Open
Badges specification itself.For further information on the Open Badges endorsement features, see Nate Otto’s slides at: http://bit.ly/obendorse
Open Badge: A statement of trust in an individual.
Open Badge Endorsement: A statement of trust in an Open Badge or issuer.
Assertion:“Margaret has earned the Digital Practitioner badge”
Endorsement Assertion:“The Digital Practitioner badge evidences teaching and learning excellence and can be used towards Higher Education Academy accreditation”(By Higher Education Academy)
Possibilities…A statement of trust in an Open Badge or issuer.
You can better trust a badge if you trust its endorsers.
Assertion:“Margaret has earned the Digital Practitioner badge”
BadgeClass:“Digital Practitioner Badge by University of Dunedin”
Issuer:“University of Dunedin”
Endorsement Assertion:“Margaret keeps up to date with learning technology developments and deserves the Digital Practitioner badge”
Endorsement BadgeClass:“The University of Dunedin’s Digital Practitioner badge is backed by quality assessments”
Endorser:“The University of Dunedin issue high quality badges”
What can be endorsed?
Annotation is a partner extension to endorsement that lets 3rd parties contribute to badge object meaning.
“The Achiever Badge aligns to Educational Standard X”
Annotation:
“The Digital Practitioner Badge aligns to the UKPSF
Areas of Activity: A4”
Annotation Assertion example:
One backpack orfederated backpacks?
From Flickr, Matthias Ripp, Backpacking CC By 2.0
Badges in Action
University of Sussex - badges to recognise staff CPD
Some current Open Badge projects in UK Higher Education
Edinburgh University Students Association - badges to recognise skills gained by Class Reps and enhance employability
Abertay University - badges to showcase HEAR related activities
University of Dundee - badges to recognise skills gained by students while co-creating the medical curriculum
University of Sheffield - badges issued during a MOOC by the radiology dept. Those applying for a degree can use their badges for a reduction in fees and as credit towards modules
Badges schemes created with...
Open Badge projects
What’s influencing DigitalMe’s Open
Badge system and consultancy
developments?
Mozilla Discover Open Badges
• Badge-based pathways to employment proof of concept
Interviews with employees
Employee pathways
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Brian B. Senior Engineer at Mozilla
Brian loves words, whether those words make up hundreds of lines of code or the sentences of a novel. His job at Mozilla involves a combination of both, since he codes and writes specifications for others who want to use the tools he builds. Words aside, he loves playing games, chopping wood(!) and cooking. Did we mention he rocks a bass (and a wicked hairstyle) in more than one band?
Senior Engineer / OBI Architect
Employer pathways logic
Employer pathwaytrees
• Pathways for particular jobs • Clear statement about the
employer’s needs • Highlight skills and
attributes required • Templates showcase
employer issued badges • Placeholders for formal
qualifications or badges linked to open learning opportunities, eg Mozilla Web Literacy badges
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Earner /employee…
• Fills in pathways with badges
• Tell their story • Set goals (unearned
badges) • Plan a career • Copy pathways to explore
options
Matt B. Senior QA Engineer at Mozilla
Matt likes breaking things and then putting them back together to improve them. His job as a QA engineer in the Firefox team involves everything from finding things that don't work - otherwise know as bugs - to coordinating projects within the open source community, such as new feature requests. His path is full of different jobs and adventures from rock-climbing to making tofu and being a psychologist at a youth detention center.
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Employer
ExpertPeer
Multiple Validation
Discover and capture learning wherever it happens
Evidence Work
Gain Endorsement
Share Achievements
● Recognize the skills you need
● Incentivise and engage people
● Connect and grow your network
Organisations
● Evidence all your achievements
● Build and expand your capabilities
● Connect with opportunities
Individuals
Connecting
Live Up to Your Ambitions
The OBA will launch with an innovative app so you can earn, issue and share badges on the move
Launch your academy and create badges
Create your badges Learners find your badgeLaunch academy
Award badges Learners add evidenceGrow and track your network of talent
OBA launches with TechFuture Academy “Employers will be able to set industry relevant challenges and badge the recognised skills to further employability skills, with employer reference on the badge showing the company support. This will enable young people to develop their employability skills recognised by employers”,
Julie Feest, Head of Strategic Partnerships | On Behalf of the Tech Partnership
*TechFuture Academy is a collaboration amongst Tech Partnership members (formerly e-skills) with support from Telefonica
