1. Creating a new learning
currency with Open Badges
ALT Webinar 9th July 2015
Gráinne Hamilton
@grainnehamilton
grainne.hamilton@digitalme.co.uk
CC BY-NC 4.0
11. March 2015:
- 14,000 issuers worldwide
- 2 Million badges issued
- 342,300 badges sent to backpacks
- 88,585 backpacks
12. - IMS partnership with Mozilla
- Endorsement and annotation built
into OBI
- W3C Open Credentials Community
Group
- Backpack developments
13. 13
IMS Digital Credentialing
Initiative
• Establish Digital Badges
as common currency for
K-20 and corporate
education
• Partnership with Mozilla
• Extend digital transcripts
and competency-based
education
interoperability
From Flickr, William Warby, Pound Coins CC By 2.0
14. For further information on the Open Badges endorsement features, see Nate Otto’s slides at: ht
15. Open Badge: A statement of
trust in an individual.
Open Badge Endorsement: A
statement of trust in an Open
Badge or issuer.
20. • Researching credential
storage and transmission
• Wide scope - defining
‘credential’ as a piece of
information associated
with you
• Investigating Identity
Credentials and Linked
Data Signatures
• http://opencreds.org/
From Flickr, Veggie Frog, Kayaks in storage, CC By 2.0
W3C Open Credentials
Community Group
23. University of Sussex - badges to recognise staff CPD
Edinburgh University Students Association - badges to recognise
skills gained by Class Reps and enhance employability
Abertay University - badges to showcase HEAR related activities
University of Dundee - badges to recognise skills gained by
students co-creating the medical curriculum
University of Sheffield - MOOC badges can be used for credit
towards degree modules and fees
31. 31
Brian B. Senior Engineer at Mozilla
Brian loves words, whether those
words make up hundreds of lines of
code or the sentences of a novel. His
job at Mozilla involves a combination
of both, since he codes and writes
specifications for others who want to
use the tools he builds. Words aside,
he loves playing games, chopping
wood(!) and cooking. Did we mention
he rocks a bass (and a wicked hairstyle)
in more than one band?
33. Employer pathway
trees
• Pathways for particular
jobs
• Clear statement about the
employer’s needs
• Highlight skills and
attributes required
• Placeholders for formal
qualifications or badges
linked to open learning
opportunities, eg Mozilla
Web Literacy badges
34. 34
Earner /
employee…
• Fills in pathways with badges
• Tell their story
• Set goals (unearned badges)
• Plan a career
• Copy pathways to explore
options
35. Matt B. Senior QA Engineer at Mozilla
Matt likes breaking things and then
putting them back together to
improve them. His job as a QA
engineer in the Firefox team involves
everything from finding things that
don't work - otherwise know as bugs
- to coordinating projects within the
open source community, such as new
feature requests. His path is full of
different jobs and adventures from
rock-climbing to making tofu and
being a psychologist at a youth
detention center.
41. ● Recognize the skills you need
● Incentivise and engage people
● Connect and grow your network
Organisations
● Evidence all your achievements
● Build and expand your capabilities
● Connect with opportunities
Individuals
Connecting
42.
43. The OBA will launch with an innovative
app so you can earn, issue and share
badges on the move
44. Launch your academy and create badges
Create your badges Learners find your badgeLaunch academy
Award badges Learners add evidenceGrow and track your
network of talent
45. OBA launches with
TechFuture Academy
“Employers will be able to set industry relevant challenges and badge the
recognised skills to further employability skills, with employer reference on
the badge showing the company support. This will enable young people to
develop their employability skills recognised by employers”,
Julie Feest, Head of Strategic Partnerships | On Behalf of the Tech
Partnership
*TechFuture Academy is a collaboration amongst Tech Partnership members
(formerly e-skills) with support from Telefonica
DigitalMe Dedicated to ensure learners gain recognition for all their skills – use badges to help the showcase their skills to unlock opportunities for learing and employment
So first of all why did we get involved with Open Badges?
Believe, like most people do that learning is much more than the paper based certficates – problem is that learning, informal learning or applied learning isn’t recognised.
Presents a real problem for us because over the past 10 yrs we’ve collaborated on countless informal or applied learning programmes – young people aren’t getting the recognition for learning
Over yrs we’ve tried to map our programmes against qualifications – either too inflexible or they come and at governments whim
When Badges came along they seemed to offer an opporunity for us to take control of acreditation within our programmes
Now we spend our time working with a whole range or organisations helping them implmenet
Has anyone heard of open badges?
Often a better example of a digital badge – ebay badge represents behaviour as well as skills -
its trusted and is built up over time, micro transactions,
awarded by a community therefore more valuable representation of an individual.
Evidence of their badge can be viewed online as feedback - transparent
Has anyone heard of open badges?
Open Badges is new technology standard which skills to be captured and shared.
Like email is a standard everyone recognises – open badges are a new standard for the communication of skills
Develop by Mozilla Foundation – global non-profit.
Mozilla is a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better. We believe that the Web is a shared public resource to be cared for, not a commodity to be sold. Creates open source tools to enable people to learn how to create the web, not just consume it.
Good ethos around privacy and data – open badges are about enabling learners to own their own data
Designed specifically for skills recognition
Specifically to create new learning pathways.
Open in two ways:
Anyone can create them (brings up issues of value)
Open data – user owns their data and can display where they choose to
So how does this work?
Why needed?
Qualifications often only reflect a narrow view of a person.
Familiar problem - Learning is often siloed – difficult to present a holistic view of a learner across different settings – connect hobbies with in school qualifications.
Even formal qualifications are very meta – difficult to understand the granularity and range of achievements they represent.
Open badges potentially provide a way to connect all of this together,
Beaty of open badges - Create an ecosystem where skills can be recognised anywhere and shared across boundaries- this is what the new technology allows
Example - Health champion – menu & meals they have cooked with their family
Easier example
Much more dynamic that a paperbased certificate.
Contains:
Criteria – what someone has had to do to earn it
Evidence – dynamic data to illustrate skills, brings an individual to life
Standards and tags – in the future open badges can connect people with opportunities across the web
Aim is to deliver this workflow or pathway… Important that the badges have value in the real world
Examples of badges in action
Think Big - innovative scheme to develop digital social entrepreneurial skills - NHS - meeting challenge of increased demand through training volunteers & of course iDEA award with endorsement from palace
Have worked with ILM to recognise staff development
So – most useful thing is to show examples of this in practice…
What: iDEA – new digital enterprise programme, supported by Palace & Nominet Trust.
How badges work: Industry endorsed badge library – skills defined by employers e.g. facebook, barclays, salesforce. Badges unlock opportunities back into those orgs
VALUE: built in at different points - for earners via incentives. Value for employers as they can identify talent via filtering & trusted endorsement.
BEHAVIOURS: But the way the badges have been designed also encourages behaviours of self-directed learning, critical thinking, problem solving & increased self-confidence
Another example – CPD badges for teachers. Providing the skills & confidence to deliver the new computing curriculum.
How the badges work:
Self certifying
Apply skill in practise – evidence. Peer validates that evidence
Passing skill on to someone else. External validation through naace
TRUST via multiple validation at different levels
BEHAVIOURS: Encouraging behaviours again of self-directed learning, peer critique and support to create a sustainable self-serve CPD model
New model provides validation from multiple points – via peers or community, experts or educators and via industry or employers
This builds value and trust into the heart of the badge and is a model particularly relevant to city & guilds
Show app - demo later
Maybe we could split the process into organisations - job training, volunteering ect (create you badge and launch it into the library)
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