open badges (learning pool webinar)

Learning Pool webinar / 12 June 2013

Who are you?

Dr. Doug BelshawBadges & Skills LeadMozilla Foundation

@dajbelshawdoug@mozillafoundation.org

Questions already received

1. How can badges be used to drive accredited learning?

2. Are the awarding bodies on board with this initiative and are there any examples of how this might work in practice?

3. What makes a successful badge system. Any examples?

4. How much does an Open Badges system cost?

5. Can Open Badges integrate with a learner’s Social Media channels. If so, how?

Two Answers

Yes!and

£0.00(it’s Open Source, too!)

Who?What? When?

Where?Why? How?

Mozilla!(global non-profit)

Some of the organisationsinvolved in the ecosystem

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

http://workforce.io/

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

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/

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

BADGE DISPLAY SITES

SUCCESS

after-school program free online course government agency

DISPLAY SITES

personal web site

social networking profiles

WordPress / Tumblr

job sites

RESULTS

new learning

unlock opportunities

jobs

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

http://tincanapi.com/overview/

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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