about open badges & badge the uk

Badge The UK

Help us

Lucy Neale, Projects Director@LucyDMe

What are badges?

Badges & the web

What are Open Badges?

http://openbadges.org

Open Badges are images with metadata hard-coded into them

CC BY-SA Kyle Bowen

What’s theproblem?

Silo 1 Silo 2

Silo 4

Formal qualifications

After schoolclub certificates

Onlinelearning

Silo 3

Professional development

How does it work?

Mozilla has built (and will maintain) the plumbing

Who’s using Open Badges?

Some of the organisations

involved in the ecosystem

Size of Open Badges

ecosystem

( )Data correct as of 4 July 2013

800+

issuers

- such as NASA, Purdue University, Disney, etc.

Value• Informal / formal accreditation• Local / national• Endorsers• Web driven

S2R Medals

Badge The UK

Help us

Connecting badge earners with learning,

enterprise & employment opportunities

• Help teachers / employers/ orgs create badges

• Space to discover, earn & display badges

• Bridge gap between young people and

employers

• Inspire learners, improve confidence

• Improve young people’s life chances

Badge The UK Will:

Platforms

Badge Platform Options

Badge The UK Partners

http://sweetwaterfoundation.com

http://www.itap.purdue.edu/studio/passport/

• Work with us to create your own Badges• Recognise or endorse a badge• Help badges become more widely displayed across the web• Provide a real world industry brief for schools• Help us understand how badges could work for you and your networks

Help Badge the UK

Questions?

Lucy Neale@lucydmedigitalme.co.uk