open badges: making learning visible (madlat 2014)
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Open BadgesMaking Learning Visible
MADLaT 2014
May 2, 2014
Don PresantPRESENTATION SUPPORT PAGE:
http://bit.ly/openbadges4he
About Don and Learning AgentsePortfolio, eLearning, eMedia
http://donpresant.ca
Agenda
• What are Open Badges?• How do Open Badges support
learning?• How do I get started?• Badge Challenge!
What are Open Badges?
Brief introduction
http://www.savvyfolio.net/user/don/overview-open-badges
Origins
• Badges, medals, ribbons since pre-Roman times
• Military, Boy Scouts, Girl Guides • Public recognition rewarding positive
(desired) behaviour• More recently: video games – “leveling up”
Girl Guides of Canada via Flickr CCBY
Leveling up at Khan AcademyInternal Badges for Learning
Digital certificates with Open Badges Think: “online micro credential”
Richard Wyles, Totara LMS at MaharaUK12http://maharauk.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=117 Video: Chicago Summer of Learning
Badge PathwaysMozilla Webmaker
http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2012/08/15/what-were-up-to-with-mozilla-webmaker-open-badges/
Open Badges and Digital Certification
• Competency based– Can parallel formal certification, or feed into it
• Visually efficient and appealing– Fun, motivating to earn (?)
• Transparent, trustable– Criteria, evidence, issue/expiry date– Ongoing connection to issuer
• Individual learning pathways– Granular milestones; see progress in MOOCs, OERs
• Progress in incomplete programs can still be recognized
– Flexible, diverse, blendable, portable, shareable
• Automatically / manually awarded
How do Open Badges support learning?
Inside Higher Ed, Jan 2014
Badging “can help speed the shift from credentials that simply measure seat time, to ones that more accurately measure competency.”Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education, 2011
Badges in PSE Purdue
Video playlist: http://www.savvyfolio.net/user/don/open-badges-and-higher-education
Badges in PSE University of California – Davis
• “media-rich, tiled portfolios”
Inside Higher Ed article: bit.ly/UCDbadgesUC Davis article: bit.ly/1cvvfW0
Presentation: bit.ly/KyDdrx HASTAC case study: bit.ly/1hXPQ8I
Badges in PSE University of California - Davis
Presentation: bit.ly/KyDdrx
Open UniversityMOOC Motivator?
http://www.slideshare.net/sjc36/badges-at-theformalinformalinterfacecrossgalley2013
BadgeAttainment
Badge Display
IntrinsicMotivation
Extrinsic Motivation
Formative Summative
‘They make me smile! Which is a good thing – learning should be fun and I think this was a fun element of the course’
‘Earned my Week 1 Badge from #oldsmooc! Unexpectedly pleased to have a reward for effort! What fun and motivates
‘I’m not sure yet if I’ll really use them [externally]’
‘I decided that they might be useful as evidence of professional development … I don’t know if anyone in my institution will care, but in case they do, I have the badges.’
Open UniversityOpen Learning Design Studio (OLDS) MOOC
http://www.olds.ac.uk/badges
See analysis: MOOC Badging and the Learning Arc
Open UniversityBeyond the MOOC
Another MOOC with BadgesDavid Wiley makes you work…
https://learn.canvas.net/courses/4
Pearson getting involvedAcclaim
http://www.pearsonvue.com/sponsors/acclaim/
Orientation/OnboardingSurvival skills at George Brown College
http://www.badgecentre.ca/
Open BadgesMaking learning visible
• Progress markers– Motivating learners,
supporting advisors
• Learning pathways– Granular, incremental, flexible
• Visual branding– Issuers and learners
• Online trust system– Demonstrate skills &
capabilities
Six Ways to Look at Badging Systems Designed for Learning
• Alternative Assessment• Gamifying Education• Learning Scaffolding• Develop Lifelong Learning Skills• Driver for Digital Media & Learning• Democratize Learning
Barry Joseph, Global Kids, IncQuoted by David Wiley
Emerging Research
• Digital Badges: An Annotated Research Bibliography v1
Curated by HASTAC
• Badges for Learning ResearchHASTAC blog
• DML Design Principles Documentation ProjectDigital Media and Learning; 30 funded projects
• Remediating Assessment Blog: Daniel Hickey et al, Indiana University
• Do badges work?Internal badge system in Peerwise (n>1000)
• Open University (Simon Cross)Upcoming journal article, Slideshare
How do I get started?
Incremental stepsGet your feet wet and keep on wading in
• Set up your personal Backpack account– http://backpack.openbadges.org/
• Earn your first badge– http://openbadges.org/earn/
• Create and issue your first badge– http://badg.us/ is a good exploratory platform– Visual design: custom is best, but experiment with this online
designer: https://www.openbadges.me/
• Research and reflect– http://www.savvyfolio.net/user/don/open-badges-and-higher-ed
ucation
• Design and implement a small system…– Sound pedagogy, robust technology
Open Badges Designing a badge for your context
bit.ly/ePIC2013_Belshaw
Recommended Badge Practices
• Set clear, objective criteria to make them easy to understand
• Make them easy to accept and display• Make them a valued “currency”
– Easy to start, getting harder
• Add new ones on a regular basis to maintain interest
• Use technical support wisely to support educators, solve problems and ensure sustainability
Based on: MichaelBoll.me
Templates
http://www.digitalme.co.uk/badgecanvas
See also: http://bit.ly/BadgeSystemDesignTemplate
TechnologyGetting serious about implementation
• Badge Creation and Issuing Platforms– Badg.us– Cred.ly– Wordpress: BadgeOS, WPBadger– Moodle, Blackboard (D2L – coming?)– Mozilla Badge Kit– Openbadgefactory.com (Moodle/Mahara/Open
API)– Mozilla spreadsheet:
“Platforms for issuing Open Badges”: bit.ly/openbadges-platforms
TechnologyLMS and ePortfolio example
http://docs.moodle.org/dev/openbadges
Bringing Badges in……should you decide to do so
• Begin with “why”? (lead with the need)– Engagement, retention, behaviour change, branding, etc.
• Consider building a logic model• Find early adopters• Start small, get it working, improve over time• Insist on excellent visual design• MAKE THE MECHANICS EASY for both issuers and earners• Get admin support to scale up• Get appropriate technical resources• Market!
– Presentations, elevator pitches, gentle nagging– Publicize adopters (news, awards, etc.)– Reports, statistics
Based on: MichaelBoll.me
don@learningagents.caTwitter: donpresant
ePortfolio: donpresant.caSavvyfolio.net
PRESENTATION SUPPORT PAGE:bit.ly/openbadges4he
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