open badges: innovations in assessment for schools

Innovations in Assessment for Schools (25 June 2013)

Who are you?

Dr. Doug BelshawBadges & Skills LeadMozilla Foundation

@dajbelshawdoug@mozillafoundation.org

Who?What? When?

Where?Why? How?

Mozilla!(global non-profit)

Some of the organisationsinvolved in the ecosystem

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Issuers

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/

http://www.rsc-scotland.org/eassessment/

http://www.kenteq.nl/smartsite.net?id=KT_HOME_EN

http://sweetwaterfoundation.com

http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/badges-projects.php?id=2246

http://www.digitalme.co.uk/student-digital-leaders-badgeathon/

https://www.makewav.es/s2r

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/dln/special/DigitalBadges.html

http://hubprov.com

http://www.proexam.org/index.php/technology/digital-micro-credentials

http://www.digitalme.co.uk/student-digital-leaders-badgeathon/

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

https://badges.webmaker.org/

https://badges.p2pu.org/

Who?

What?When?Where?

Why? How?

Open Badges are images with metadata hard-coded into them

CC BY-SA Kyle Bowen

Visual representations ofachievements, learning, skills,

interests, competencies

They can accommodateformal & informallearning pathways

Mozilla has built (and will maintain) the plumbing

They can represent hard & softskills, peer assessment, and stackable lifelong learning

Open Badges can capture learning wherever & however itoccurs—allowing for innovation

Open Badges?(What about degrees, certificates, diplomas?)

Not simply either/or—both/and!

Who?

What?When?

Where?Why?

How?

Silo 1

Silo 2

Silo 3

Degree

PRINCE2etc.

CPDcertificate

Silo 1

Silo 2

Silo 3

What skills/attributes are missing here?

(how can we best present them in a holistic way?)

Degree

PRINCE2etc.

CPDcertificate

OpenBadgesInfrastructure(OBI)

I love badges for motivating me in

my learning!

We use metadata-infused credentials

aligned with the OBI

I’m using micro-accreditation to

make achievements more granular

Who?

What? When?

Where?Why?

How?

http://openbadges.org

Who?

What?

When?

Where?

Why?

How?

3 main ways to issue badges...

Roll your own solution(using onboarding documentation)

Use plugin for an existing system (plugins available for most major platforms/systems)

Third-party issuing platform(URLs in metadata point to their servers)

3 main ways to issue badges:

Use plugin for an existing system (plugins available for most major platforms/systems)

Who?

What?

When?Where?

Why?

How?

NOW!(we launched v1.0 in March)

~100,000 Open Badges issued

>26,000 earners

>700 issuers

to

by

(May 2013 stats)

Coming soon...

Federation of badge backpacks

Coming soon...

Image CC BY IsaacMao

Endorsement (3rd-party signing of badges)

Federation of badge backpacks

Coming soon...

Images CC BY IsaacMao & SeattleClouds.com

SOME IDEASto get you started

• Play! Experiment! Earn your first badge at openbadges.org to see how they work.

• Think up some criteria and issue a badge to someone using badg.us

• Join the Open Badges community. Ask questions!

• Launch a pilot. What behaviours/skills/understanding are you trying to promote?

Conclusion

• Open Badges = metadata-infused credentials

• We’re now at v1.0 of the OBI

• Lots of organisations are already using badges

• You can get started right now!

Now!

On Twitter: @dajbelshaw

Via email: doug@mozillafoundation.org

Ask me hard questions!

http://openbadges.org

http://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges

https://groups.google.com/d/forum/openbadges

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