An exploration of the convergence of micro-credentials, open badges, badge passports and eportfolios for workplace human capital development. Tons of examples and ideas. Part of a series on Open Badges for different audiences by Learning Agents. Embedded at bit.ly/openbadges4work with other resources and pages. Moved from a duplicate account (http://www.slideshare.net/donpresant9)

1. Open Badges:
Visual Pathways to the Future
WORKPLACE VERSION
June 17, 2014
Don Presant
Presentation at:
bit.ly/openbadges4work

2. CME Manitoba
Partnerships for jobs and growth
• Lean Training
• Technological Innovation
• Trade and export markets
• Youth Careers
• …AME 2015

3. http://blog.qmee.com/qmee-online-in-60-seconds/
Digital Impact
• Internet
• Mobile
• Social media
• Personalization
• Gamification
– For fun
– For change
– For learning

4. Digital Dysfunction
Issues in typical resume assessment
• Self-reported history
• No/inappropriate guidance for candidates
• Lack of standardization, alignment, validation
• 6-second read
• No scoring sheet, metrics, no training for
assessors
• Inappropriate knockout factors
• ATS and keyword “SEO”
http://www.ere.net/2012/07/16/what%E2%80%99s-wrong-with-using-resumes-
for-hiring-pretty-much-everything/

5. Need: Stackable Workplace Skills
e.g. Health Care, Manufacturing (US)
Career One Stop - US Dept of Labor

6. Need for Clarity
A Competency-Based Credentialing Process
Making a Market for Competency-Based Credentials

7. Enterprise Gamification
An emerging business opportunity
Rewards programs, performance management, employee onboarding,
learning and development
http://www.redcritterconnecter.com/

8. Digital badges and skills passports
Corporate perspective
http://youtu.be/oACpeW6NA-o

9. What is an Open Badge?
Leverages the “digital”
• Storable
– Keeping securely in online vaults, galleries
• Shareable
– (L)earner curating selected collections
– Matching to skills requirements
• Linkable
– Connecting to evidence, outcomes
• Stackable
– Laddering, clustering, “leveling up”
• “Plannable”
– Goal setting, “missions”, “quests”
• Fun! – but not just for kids

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

11. Open Badges
Making learning visible
• Clear progress markers
– Motivating learners, supporting
advisors
• Flexible learning pathways
– Granular, incremental, multi-source,
laddered, remixable
• Visual branding
– Issuers and learners
• Online trust system
– Demonstrate skills & capabilities
– Proof of performance
– Backed by issuer

12. Simplicity is power
Simple structure: image + data
bit.ly/ePIC2013_Belshaw

13. Open Badges and Badge Passports
Micro credentials - modular record of learning
Richard Wyles, Totara LMS at MaharaUK12
http://maharauk.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=117

14. Open Badges
An evolving ecosystem
http://openmatt.org/

15. Workforce entry skills
Workforce.io

16. Workforce.io
Integrated skills workflow
Evaluate skills…match to employer needs…coach/teach to fill gaps
…flow to hire

17. Badge Pathways
Mozilla Discover (Gates funding)
http://discover.openbadges.org/

18. Career & Technical Education (CTE)
National Occupational Competency Testing Inst. (NOCTI)
www.nocti.org/pdf/badges/Digital%20Badges-Are%20You%20Ready.pdf

19. High stakes credentialing
Professional Examination Service
http://bit.ly/ProExam_M-C

20. Pearson Acclaim (VUE)
If Pearson are getting into badges.…
Acclaim’s unique
approach…is to work with
academic institutions and
high-stakes credentialing
organizations to offer
diplomas, certificates and
other professional
credentials as Open Badges.
blog.youracclaim.com/

21. Badges and employers
Transparent credibility
https://community.lincs.ed.gov/discussion/welcome-digital-badges-discussion-q1-how-are-badges-different-credentialing-methods-used-

22. Performance/Compliance Management
(Future Vision)
http://rwagroup.co.uk/open-badges-are-here/

23. Top 5 Benefits of Open Badges
for Workplace Human Capital Development
• Motivate employees to learn
• Credential in-house training
• Recognize informal learning
• Performance oriented
• Portable
Details and discussion (and nice badge graphics) at:
E-Learning Provocateur (Ryan Tracey)

24. Badges for Leadership
http://www.leaderamp.com/node/57

25. More Badges for Leadership

26. Open Badges & Sector Organizations
Meeting the skills needs of SMEs
• Accrediting internal training and education
– Leadership, front line
• Brokering external training & education
• Promoting & recognizing informal learning
– Knowledge transfer, performance support
– Social learning (communities of practice)
– Experiential learning (e.g. exercises, projects, placements)
– Self-directed learning (e.g. reading, reflection, “missions”)
• Providing skills passports
– Workplace development, team building, career mobility
• Branding sector organization as a skills channel
– Direct delivery, brokering, aggregation

27. A dark side to badges for work?
What if you badge them and they leave?
• Perceived threats:
– Potential for poaching by recruiters
– “Ticket to ride” for HiPo’s (High Potentials)
• The other side of the coin:
– What if you don’t and they stay (and fester)?
– Isn’t this a great way to recruit new talent, especially for SMEs?
• Sector organizations can build community talent pipelines for SMEs
– Can you get HiPo’s to stay with more challenges and recognition?
• (See stats comparing results of different employee engagement strategies)
– And if they’re producing lots more…maybe pay them a bit more?
• One possible strategy: “skills escrow”?
– Make internally awarded employer-awarded badges private, until the
employee leaves (e.g. inside Moodle or other LMS)
Open for online discussion and comment at the E-Learning Provocateur:
http://ryan2point0.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/top-5-benefits-of-open-badges-for-corporates/

28. Badging Kirkpatrick
For workplace learning (work in progress)
Kirkpatrick Level Affordances & Indicators
5: ROI (Phillips) • Badge reports comparing different programs, different
departments against bottom line measures
• Badges, advancement and retention – comparing differnet badges
to different outcomes
4: Results • Badges for individuals in departments, functions, regions
• Individual badges can be aggregated for organizations: Lean,
Green, ISO, Top Employer, Safe Workplace, etc.
• Badges can demonstrate regulatory compliance (Health & Safety)
3: Transfer • Badge collections: sequencing, laddering, clustering
• Badges from multiple sources curated in badge passports &
channeled to recognition goals
• Badges in eportfolios enhanced with reflection
2: Learning • Badges with transparent embedded skills outcomes
1: Reaction • Visual appeal, gamification, activity completion

29. Badging the Organization
Recognizing Positive / Productive Behaviours
Source
Source
www.manitobalotteries.com/career/
mbplar.ca
Source

30. Open Badge Factory
Cloud-based badge management & interoperability
bit.ly/ePIC2013_Rousselle
Open
API

31. Open Badge Factory
Detailed Reports

32. Open Badge Factory
Badge Application

33. Features and Benefits
openbadgefactory.com
• Current:
– Controlled access for organizations
– Controlled roles within organizations
• Creator, Issuer, Administrator
– Detailed reports
– Badge applications
• Coming:
– Meta-badges (Mega Badges) (c. June)
• Linear, clustered…
– Badge Passport (c. June)
• Private/public badges, badge collections
• Mobile display
– Suggestions from the beta community…

34. Badges…Passports…Portfolios?
Tools to channel the full spectrum of skills
• Technical Skills
• Essential Skills
– HARD: literacy, numeracy, document management, digital skills
– SOFT: working with others, critical thinking, problem solving, etc.
• Conference Board “Employability Skills 2000+”
– Attitudes, adaptability, resilience
• 21st Century Skills
– Multi-literacies, learning and innovation skills
• Leadership Skills
– Values, ethics, responsibility
Evidence of:
…achievements, abilities and affiliations
…curated, reflected upon and remixed for recognition goals

35. Badges curated in ePortfolios
with other evidence & reflection…
FOR Learning OF Learning
focused on process focused on product
supports learning demonstrates learning
private workshop public shop window
a learning environment a showcase of learning
achievements
learning activities learning outcomes
formative assessment summative assessment
lower stakes higher stakes

36. ePortfolios: leveraging the “e”
The “Flexible Binder” for the 21st Century
• Information Management capabilities
– Collecting, archiving, sharing, multiple versioning
– Quick links to cross-reference evidence
– Accessible multimedia with free Web 2.0 tools
– Align to frameworks, rubrics, track learning over time
• Social learning, digital identity
– Building professional profile, Personal Learning network
• Digital technology skills, Internet literacy
– Demonstrated by and within the ePortfolio
• Learning and collaboration integration
– Online research: documents, networks
– Easy to add comments, edit, mentor, coach

37. Shameless plug: savvyfolio.net
Multi-institution ePortfolio based on Mahara
Professional Body Workplace Trainer
College
Employer Industry Sector Body
University
Adult Learning Centre
Employability Agency

38. Presentation and support material at:
bit.ly/openbadges4work
don@learningagents.ca
Web: learningagents.ca
Twitter: donpresant
ePortfolio: donpresant.ca