Badges: New Currency for High-Value Credentials
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This document summarizes a presentation on open badges and their use in education. Open badges provide a way to recognize achievements and skills earned through both formal and informal learning. They use a shared, universal metadata standard to provide information about the badge, criteria for earning it, the issuer, and evidence of completion. Badges can represent micro-credentials and be combined to show competencies and qualifications over a lifetime of learning. The presentation discussed how open badges are being used in higher education programs and credentials as well as their potential to recognize skills and prior learning for competency-based education. Accreditors view badges positively if they represent high-quality learning experiences and institutions ensure academic oversight of badge programs and acceptance policies.
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Badges: New Currency for High-Value Credentials
- 1. #BbWorld14 Badges: New Currency for High-Value Credentials Anne Derryberry (Sage Road Solutions), Carla Casilli (Badge Alliance), Bernard Bull (Concordia U.), Veronica Diaz (EDUCAUSE), Megan Raymond (WCET)
- 2. #BbWorld14 Introduction to Badges Carla Casilli, Badge Alliance 2
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- 4. Open Badges act as representations of achievements, learning, skills, interests, competencies, etc. #BbWorld14
- 5. They map learning pathways connecting formal & informal learning #BbWorld14
- 6. Earned across a lifetime, open badges become a personal portfolio of what you know and can do
- 7. #BbWorld14 The core tenets of open badges: interoperable, flexible, digital, granular, transferable, connected
- 8. #BbWorld14 Made possible through a shared infrastructure: a universal metadata standard
- 9. #BbWorld14 Badge metadata spec + Issuer API
- 10. #BbWorld14 badge image badge name badge URL (description) badge criteria issuer issue date recipient alignment (standards) expiration date evidence URL
- 11. #BbWorld14 A network of organizations and individuals building and enhancing an open badges ecosystem
- 12. #BbWorld14 Leveraging the constellation model for social change
- 13. Uniting multiple groups and sectors into working groups #BbWorld14
- 14. #BbWorld14 open badges standard endorsement workforce higher ed messaging globalization policy digital / web literacy research cities educator badges
- 15. #BbWorld14 Join us! http://badgealliance.org @carlacasilli carla@badgealliance.org
- 16. #BbWorld14 What Do Badges Offer Higher Ed? Bernard Bull, Concordia University 16
- 17. #BbWorld14 M.S. in Educational Design & Technology Dr. Bernard Bull Bernard.bull@cuw.edu @bdean1000 online.cuw.edu www.etale.org
- 18. #BbWorld14 EDT 970 - 3 Credits EDT 889 - 3 Credits EDT 908 - 3 Credits EDT 892 - 3 Credits EDT 893 - 3 Credits EDT 890 - 3 Credits EDT 885 - 3 Credits Elective - 3 Credits Elective - 3 Credits Elective - 3 Credits Elective - 3 Credits Port 1 - 0 Credits Port 2 - 0 Credits Port 3 - 0 Credits = M.S. in Educational Design & Technology
- 19. #BbWorld14 EDT 889 - 3 Credits Learning Objectives Units of Instruction Required Learning Activites Assessments
- 20. #BbWorld14 EDT 889 - 3 Credits Flipped Classroom Strategies for Interactive Lecture Learning Experience Design Essentials Digital Storytelling Gamification & Game-based Learning Project-based Learning Digital Discussion -based Learning Inquiry-based Learning
- 21. #BbWorld14 Competency introduction and instructions Badge Host Practice exercises to help reach the competency Access to content and resources about PBL Opportunities to connect and collaborate on PBL Worked examples of PBL Criteria for earning the badge
- 22. #BbWorld14 = M.S. in Educational Design & Technology
- 23. #BbWorld14 = M.S. in Educational Design & Technology = M.S. in Teaching & Learning Graduate Certificate in Assessment Strategies
- 24. #BbWorld14 5 Badge Design Tips • Beware of badges as biscuits. • Create great criteria. • Make the badges mean something. • Make the badges mean something beyond your classroom/school. • Value OBI. 24
- 25. #BbWorld14 The Open Badges Ecosystem Anne Derryberry, Sage Road Solutions 25
- 26. No badge is an island. Open badges exist within a complex #BbWorld14 ecosystem.
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- 37. Anne Derryberry anne@sageroadsolutions.com @aderryberry 37 #BbWorld14
- 38. #BbWorld14 The EDUCAUSE Badging Initiative Veronica Diaz, EDUCAUSE 38
- 40. #BbWorld14 BADGING AND THE PROFESSIONAL
- 41. #BbWorld14 PD and Badging • Signaling and tracking engagement • Wayfinding and career pathing • The personal brand (developing and showcasing new areas of competence) • Leadership signals
- 42. #BbWorld14 EDUCAUSE BADGE CONSTELLATION
- 44. #BbWorld14 Leadership Awards and Development
- 46. #BbWorld14 Subject Matter Expert
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- 52. EDUCAUSE BADGING INITIATIVE #BbWorld14 http://www.educause.edu/badging
- 53. Veronica Diaz, PhD Associate Director, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Director, EDUCAUSE Online Programs EDUCAUSE #BbWorld14 @drvdiaz vdiaz@educause.edu http://www.educause.edu/eli
- 54. #BbWorld14 Badges as Alternate Credentials Megan Raymond, WCET 54
- 55. WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET) • Founded in 1989 for WICHE states. • Now 332 members nationally, all sectors of higher ed, nonprofits, corporations. • Members include technology innovators from U.S. and Canada. #BbWorld14
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- 57. #BbWorld14 What exactly is competency-based education? Educause: Competency-based education (CBE) allows students to advance based on their ability to master a skill or competency at their own pace regardless of environment. This method is tailored to meet different learning abilities and can lead to more efficient student outcomes.
- 58. #BbWorld14 CBE Cont • Increases access. • Increases completion. • Flexible. • Meet President’s 2020 Goal “America would once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world.” http://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/education/higher-education • Prior Learning Assessment - enables learners to gain credentials for work/military experience.
- 59. #BbWorld14 Why Badges for CBE? • Badges represent knowledge/skill attainment that employers are looking for. • Verify that a competency has been achieved. • Badges are an increasingly accepted form of credential. • Badges rely on competency frameworks and use industry standards. • Valid assessment strategies • Portable - the student can bring their badges to different institutions and employers. • Valuable to the student, inst., and employer because the metadata shows what level of competency has been achieved. • Demonstrate competencies and substantiate with evidence. • Empowers learners.
- 60. #BbWorld14 Accreditors Views • Pat O’Brien, NEASC – Is credit involved? Accreditation is concerned with credit-bearing experiences, link to financial aid. – Quality - Is the ed. experience for what is being earned of high quality? How do you know? – Who awards the badges/accepts prior learning credit that a student brings in in the form of a badge? Oversight and faculty participation are fundamental in assessing the quality of the educational experience.
- 61. #BbWorld14 Accreditors views cont. • What about the student who brings badges to my institution? – Most accreditation agencies leave to the institution the number of credits that can be transferred in that are “credit for experimentation or non-collegiate sponsored learning.” – Student must demonstrate academic content is tied to the experience. – Transparency- students need to know clearly what will happen to the badges, i.e. credit acceptance, credit limits.
- 62. #BbWorld14 Megan Raymond Manager, Events and Programs WCET 303.541.0233 mraymond@wiche.edu @meraymond
- 63. #BbWorld14 Comments and Questions 63
- 64. #BbWorld14 Thank you! 64 • Please provide feedback for this session: 1) Select “Schedule” icon in BbWorld14 Mobile App 2) Find “Badges: New Currency for High Value Credentials” 3) Click “Tap here to take a survey.”
Editor's Notes
- As a part of our commitment to learning on the web, Mozilla Foundation is creating the open badge infrastructure. We hope this infrastructure will extend the value of badges from each issuer across the entire badge ecosystem, making it easy for learners to collect and combine badges across various websites, networks and applications.
- Badge title Badge description Badge criteria Badge image issuer issue date recipient expiration date evidence URL
- Badge title Badge description Badge criteria Badge image issuer issue date recipient expiration date evidence URL
- As a part of our commitment to learning on the web, Mozilla Foundation is creating the open badge infrastructure. We hope this infrastructure will extend the value of badges from each issuer across the entire badge ecosystem, making it easy for learners to collect and combine badges across various websites, networks and applications.
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- As a part of our commitment to learning on the web, Mozilla Foundation is creating the open badge infrastructure. We hope this infrastructure will extend the value of badges from each issuer across the entire badge ecosystem, making it easy for learners to collect and combine badges across various websites, networks and applications.
- Badge title Badge description Badge criteria Badge image issuer issue date recipient expiration date evidence URL
- As a part of our commitment to learning on the web, Mozilla Foundation is creating the open badge infrastructure. We hope this infrastructure will extend the value of badges from each issuer across the entire badge ecosystem, making it easy for learners to collect and combine badges across various websites, networks and applications.
- We have developed this ecosystem model as a framework to ground and guide our conversation about badge system design and implementation.
- At the heart of the ecosystem is the Learner or Student, or as we call the here, Job Seekers. We call them Job Seekers because, when all is said and done, they must persuade a prospective Employer that they have the competencies and attributes that the Employer is seeking. Open badges help them tell their story.
- Many Job Seekers attain job-related skills and competencies through some form of education. They turn to Learning Providers of all descriptions (colleges and universities, community colleges, professional education programs, even – frequently – open education resources) to help them fill gaps and gain new knowledge and skills. As new competencies are acquired by the Learners/Job Seekers, they earn badges to reflect those new abilities.
- But before the badge awards are actually made, the skills that those badges represent must be verified, not simply asserted by the individual. That verification happens through evidence-based assessment. In other words, not assessment based on a learner’s ability to recall information about how to do something – actual evidence that demonstrates the learner can do that thing. What this means is that badges are actually tied to assessment, not to learning. Badges don’t care where or how competencies are acquired, or what the curriculum is that the badge seeker is exposed to. As a consequence, assessment can be de-coupled from learning programs. We’re seeing that some interesting business models will be evolving as a result of the focus on evidence-based assessment.
- At the same time, Employers have specific requirements about the attributes and competencies they need among their employees, which are reflected in job descriptions, new-hire requisitions, performance reviews and other ways. Badges are the method for communicating those Employer requirements and, in turn, that a Job Seeker meets the Employer’s requirements.
- To date, it has been difficult for Employers to determine that what a Job Seeker states in an employment application or resume is true. With metadata associated with a badge, as Carla described, and authentication technology, Employers have the means to authenticate that Job Seekers who present badges to substantiate their assertions of qualification are indeed the ones who earned the badges, and that the badges represent the skills and competencies that the Employer seeks.
- The competencies that are called out by Employers often reflect regulations, industry standards and best practices as articulated by Standards Organizations. Standards bodies get input from academic research and employers about evolving best practices, and, in turn, provide guidance, even governance, over business practices.
- The competencies defined by Standards Organizations inform and support a healthy ecosystem. When badges are tied to assessments - that are themselves tied to industry standards and best practices - the likelihood of finding the right match between Job Seeker and Employer is greatly improved. And, of course, this puts learning providers in a much better position to offer learning programs that align with employer requirements, and that give badge seekers the right foundation for providing evidence of competence through assessment activities.
- Learning providers have traditionally relied on academic accreditation and reputation as validation of the value of their targeted learning outcomes. Because, as I said earlier, badges are agnostic as to the mode of learning that learners employed to gain competencies, learning providers are identifying new ways to engage learners. This opens up the need for clear, transparent validation of learning providers and their methodologies, without which the value of their badges is questionable.
- What is badging in a professional development context? (the professional association’s role in career progression; badging in adult professional development, talent and competency development and career advancement) wayfinding and career pathing supporting and developing your brand new areas of competence and expanding body of knowledge terminology - badging, micro-credentialing, etc. some brief examples in HED
- What is badging in a professional development context? (the professional association’s role in career progression; badging in adult professional development, talent and competency development and career advancement) wayfinding and career pathing supporting and developing your brand new areas of competence and expanding body of knowledge terminology - badging, micro-credentialing, etc. some brief examples in HED
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- Badge activity is a measure of the total number of times a badge is seen, clicked, shared or viewed across Credly and all Open Credit enabled apps and sites. It is a metric for badge impact; a measure of impressions made. (Most of our badge activity is occurring via LinkedIn. We don’t have a report on public versus private or not accepted badges overall. But if you drill down (e.g. click on Learning analytics SME badge) it seems that you can see who has accepted it. In this case, 13 of 32 have data in the “Credit from me” column.