Examines background needs, early solutions and the emerging vision of micro-credentialing for professional development and training for the workplace. Based on the Mozilla Open Badges infrastructure. This presentation is frequently updated. This presentation has been moved from a duplicate account (http://www.slideshare.net/donpresant9)

1. Open Badges
Visualizing Career Pathways
Training & Professional Development Version
July 29, 2016
Presentation support page:
bit.ly/openbadges4tpd

3. Education à la carte
www.udacity.com/nanodegree

4. 70:20:10
Not all learning takes place in the classroom
deakinprime.com wikipedia.org
Estimated time spent in school and
informal learning environments.
Best available statistics on how much time people at
different points across the lifespan spend in formal
instructional environments in a calendar year.
(Reproduced with permission of The LIFE Center.)
Continuing Education
learning delivery model at
DeakinPrime (Australia)
“Balances the need for you to
practise and learn in the workplace
while providing you with the
foundational understanding
required to reposition your mind.”

6. Trends in Professional Credentialing
• Use technology to:
• reduce waste (paper, effort)
• increase quality
• Re-use credential information for:
• onboarding
• HR planning
• performance review
• Accreditation
• Quality Assurance, systemic analysis
• Enable “continuous credentialing”
SEER Health: The Future of Provider Credentialing

7. Employers want competency credentials
cwf.ca April 2015

8. Diplomas & Certificates: “Paper Silos”
freedesignfile.com/92259
Transparency issues
 “Dumb” paper often needs other
documents, e.g. syllabus
 Proxy only – not the “whole story”
 Easy to forge
Physical issues
 Difficult to share, easy to lose
Recognition issues
 Lack of granularity
 Lack of context
 no links to supporting evidence
 Experiential learning not valued
 Lack of alignment, transfer,
articulation (“stackability”)

10. www.britishbadgeforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7253
metronews.ca/
History of Badge Recognition
Authority
Badge Tracking Android App
Since pre-Roman times...
Blue Light
Achievement
Affiliation
Skills
Military
Scouting
Heraldry

11. A digital representation of an accomplishment, interest or affiliation that is visual, available online and
contains metadata including trusted links that help explain the context, meaning, process and result of an
activity.
As an open artefact, the earner can present the badge in different contexts from which it was earned.
What is an Open Badge?
Micro-credential – portable record of learning
Clear progress markers
motivating learners,
supporting advisors
Flexible learning pathways
granular, incremental, multi-
source, laddered, remixable
Visual branding
issuers and earners
Online trust system
demonstrate skills &
capabilities
proof of performance
backed by issuer

12. What is an Open Badge?
Different perspectives…
“…a simple digital standard for recognizing and sharing
achievements, skills and performance over networks.”
SUMMATIVE
ASSESSMENT
A micro-credential
A discrete record
in a modular
transcript
TECHNICAL
DESCRIPTION
A portable “smart”
graphic with an
embedded
description and
links to supporting
information
FORMATIVE
ASSESSMENT
A reward for
positive (prescribed)
behaviour
A marker on a
development path

13. Some uses of badges
can be combined...
Recognize Status &
Membership
Reputation
Group affiliation
transformingassessment.com/TA_webinar_5_mar_2014_Simon_Cross.pdf
Keep artefacts
Souvenirs of
experience
Motivate learning
“Game mechanics”
Set goals (missions)
Track progress
Set goals
Learning pathways
Assess &
Recognize Learning
Formal, non-formal,
informal
Fill recognition gaps
not currently well-
served

14. Open Badges & social media
Curated in ePortfolio
Interactive criteria
Pulled from Backpack
LinkedIn Profile
Facebook timeline

15. www.badgealliance.org/why-badges/
A new skills ecosystem
Open Badges, micro-portfolios in social networks
Going digital
helps…
searchingdeconstructingvalidating aligning
sharingcombiningassessing “valorizing”

16. How do
Open Badges support
recognition?

17. Early Trends
Summary
• c. 10m eCredentials, 1000’s of issuers
• Early adoption hot spots:
• After school, community programs (youth)
• Professionalization and PD (esp. educators)
• conferences, workshops, online courses, self-directed
learning
• Product training (esp. ICT), digital literacy
• Continuing Education
• Business Soft Skills
• Testing Recognition
• Pre-employment

18. Professionalization & PD
Unregulated:
•AXELOS
•HR Certification Institute
•AACE (total cost management)
•Society for Human Resource
Management (SHRM)
•International Board of Credentialing
and Continuing Education
Standards (IBCCES)
•ASIS International
Regulated:
•American Board for Certification in
Orthotics, Prosthetics & Pedorthics
•Institute of Management
Accountants
•Association of Clinical Research
Professionals

19. Regulator & Sector Council:
192,000 workers in Scotland
badges.sssc.uk.com/badges
 Work based qualifications:
 enter with little education, achieve
a degree
 Open Badges to recognized informal
learning
 Potential for formalized RPL later

20. Community Learning for Educators
educause
Community Service Communications
Leadership Development
Awards
Subject Matter
Development

21. Technology product training
Sample issuers:
•IBM
•Adobe
•Oracle
• Autodesk
•Hortonworks

22. Business Soft Skills

23. Business soft skills training
http://bit.ly/1LhzYTp

24. Deakin University
Recognizing Employability Soft Skills
“Communication is the fundamental generic
skill needed to attain employment and to
engage in professional written, oral and
interpersonal communication with
colleagues, clients and the general public.”
deakin.edu.au

25. Lipscomb University/Polaris
Fortune 500 Competency Performance Model
www.lipscomb.edu/professionalstudies/core-for-employers
“CORE measures 15 competencies on a badge system, which is based on a nationally respected and
Fortune 500-proven competency performance model—the Polaris Assessment System. Companies
already utilizing this system include Nike, PetSmart, Disney, Mars, Wendy’s among many others.”
CORE_brochure

26. Continuing Education

27. Workforce vision: Open Badges
City & Guilds (UK vocational qualifications body)
bit.ly/pipeline-CandG

28. What’s happening
in Canada?

29. Early Adopters in Canada
Education (incl PD) Community
Workplace

30. Leadership Training - BC
http://badges.roygroup.net/cert/?CID=88827
• Issued: 952
• Accepted: 220
• Accepted on LinkedIn: 92%
• Little/no support needed
ENDORSEMENT:

31. What does
all this mean?

32. Open Badges & workplace learning
Filter new
hires
Track
internal
training
Broker
external
training
Recognize
informal,
experiential
learning
Build skills
passports,
eportfolios
Assemble
teams
Build
organizational
portfolios
Develop
careers,
groom talent
Benefits
for employers

33. A new skills currency
Open Badges, ePortfolios &“Badge Passports”
Trustable, easy to understand
Transparent criteria, evidence,
issue/expiry date
Flexible alignment to frameworks,
requirements, training plans
Issuing organization is validated and
branded by the badges it issues;
maintains ongoing connection to
earners
Learner centred, employer friendly
Visually efficient and appealing
Engages, builds confidence, provides
continuing feedback
Individual pathways, multiple
sources of learning
Formal non-formal informal learning
Modular, stackable, diverse, re-mixable,
portable, shareable
Programs not completed can be partially
recognized and recombined
Add evidence, reflection as appropriate
Drill down to specifics or roll up into
larger outcomes
Combined in badge passports and
ePortfolios
Common standard for skills exchange

35. FREE
FOR BADGE EARNERS
Accept Store
Display Share
SUBSCRIPTIONS
FOR BADGE ISSUERS
Free trial
Create Issue
Manage Track
CanCred.ca: Open Badge
eCredentialing for Canada

36. CanCred.ca: A flexible system
Mozilla
Backpack
Personal
Websites
Other Badge
Platforms
Display remotely
LinkedIn
Facebook
ePortfolios
Online
Communities
FREE
FOR BADGE EARNERS
Accept Store
Display Share
Display directly
Pages
VideoFiles
Links
Text
Single
Badges
Badges
SUBSCRIPTIONS
FOR BADGE ISSUERS
Create Issue
Manage Track
eLearning
Platforms
ePortfolio
Platforms
Community
Platforms
WordPress
(CMS)
Issue
remotely
Issue
directly
Manual,
bulk issue
Milestone
Badges
Badge
Applications
Issuer
Networks
Claim
codes

37. learningagents.ca
@donpresant
littoraly.wordpress.com
@CanCredCA
info@cancred.ca
bit.ly/openbadges4tpd