5. 5
ROLE OF ELEARNING SPECIALIST IN A
SMALL INSTITUTION
Learning
Designer
Digital Literacy
AdvisorHelpdesk
Moodle
Admin
Strategic
Planning
Resource
Developer
EdTech
Trainer Project Manager
Digital
coach
6. 6
Wiring a place
for technology
is easy,
Wiring people
for technology
is hard.
- Tania Major at #converge10
Imagecclicensedbyjbcuriohttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jbcurio/4077260761
9. JOI ITO
“I don’t think education is about
centralized instruction anymore; rather, it
is the process [of] establishing oneself as
a node in a broad network of distributed
creativity.”
@joi
13. People live their lives and learn across multiple
settings, and this holds true not only across the
span of our lives but also across and within the
institutions and communities they inhabit – even
classrooms, for example. I take an approach that
urges me to consider the significant overlap
across these boundaries as people, tools, and
practices travel through different and even
contradictory contexts and activities.
KRIS GUTIERREZ
29. Everyone has the same building blocks…
…but how do you put them together?
30. • Which platform do you
use for your
information streams?
• What are advantages/
disadvantages?
• Where do you
keep your work?
• Is it digital or
analog?
• Private or public?
• Where do you keep
track of your digital
files and resources?
• What are
restrictions/
benefits?
• How safe are your
collections?
• Do you share
collections with
others? Why or why
not?
• Who are you
connected to?
• Which tools do
you use to
communicate with
other students?
• Are the tools
public or private?
• What are
advantages or
not?
• How much do you
share about you?
Conversation Curation
Information
Streams
Portfolio
You
45. Many students already have confident social
identities online, but developing identities
as learners, writers, scholars, citizens —
these are important tasks as part of higher
education.
- Catherine Cronin
http://catherinecronin.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/openeducation-and-
identities/
ROLE OF INSTITUTION IN DIGITAL IDENTITY
46. If institutions of learning are going to help
learners with the real challenges they face…
[they] will have to shift their focus from
imparting curriculum to supporting the
negotiation of productive identities through
landscapes of practice.”
- Etienne Wenger (Digital Habitats, 2010)
ROLE OF INSTITUTION IN DIGITAL IDENTITY
47. • Which platform do you
use for your
information streams?
• What are advantages/
disadvantages?
• Where do you
keep your work?
• Is it digital or
analog?
• Private or public?
• Where do you keep
track of your digital
files and resources?
• What are
restrictions/
benefits?
• How safe are your
collections?
• Do you share
collections with
others? Why or why
not?
• Who are you
connected to?
• Which tools do
you use to
communicate with
other students?
• Are the tools
public or private?
• What are
advantages or
not?
• How much do you
share about you?
Conversation Curation
Information
Streams
Portfolio
You
48. cc licensed flickr photo by Will Lion: http://flickr.com/photos/will-lion/
49. Artefacts Discovery Selection Collection Sharing
The social curation process
Social curation is: “the discovery, selection, collection
and sharing of digital artefacts by an individual for a
social purpose such as learning, collaboration, identity
expression or community participation.”
Seitzinger, 2014, Networked Learning Conference
Proceedings
51. • Which platform do you
use for your
information streams?
• What are advantages/
disadvantages?
• Where do you
keep your work?
• Is it digital or
analog?
• Private or public?
• Where do you keep
track of your digital
files and resources?
• What are
restrictions/
benefits?
• How safe are your
collections?
• Do you share
collections with
others? Why or why
not?
• Who are you
connected to?
• Which tools do
you use to
communicate with
other students?
• Are the tools
public or private?
• What are
advantages or
not?
• How much do you
share about you?
Conversation Curation
Information
Streams
Portfolio
You
53. SO IF THAT IS WHERE PEOPLE LEARN,
HOW WILL THEY GET RECOGNIZED FOR
THEIR LEARNING?
54.
55.
56. BADGE DEFINITION
• “Digital credential that represents
skills, interests and achievements
earned by an individual through
specific projects, programmes, courses
or other activities.” (Mozilla, 2013)
57. WHO IS USING DIGITAL BADGES?
• Khan Academy
• LinkedIn
• Deloitte
• Gamification
• Do not talk to each other.
• Not transferable
60. MOZILLA’S OPEN BADGES
“Learning today happens everywhere. But
it's often difficult to get recognition for
skills and achievements that happen
online or out of school. Mozilla Open
Badges helps solve that problem, making
it easy for any organisation to issue,
manage and display digital badges
across the web.”
64. IF WE USE OPEN BADGES
• Can facilitate informal and formal
learning
• Can represent hard or soft skills
• Can be issued by an institution, after-
school club, maker society, employer, a
peer,….
• Can be built on for lifelong learning
• Can transfer between contexts and life
stages
67. DR SIMON CROSS @OU:
FUNCTION OF BADGES
• Recognise learning
• Assessment of learning
• Motivating learning
• Evaluation & tracking of progress
• Goal setting
• Status
• Instruction to norms
• Reputation
• Group identity
• Tool of resistance or domination
• Symbols of exclusivity
• Souvenirs
68. DR SIMON CROSS @OU:
ROLE OF BADGES
Role of the
Issuer
Role of the
Earner
• Solution to motivation issue
• Evidence generator
• Constructive alignment process
• Low cost / low effort option
• Saves time assessing prior learning
• Booster issuer image or profile
• Ties issuer to earner
• Retain authority and status
85. IF BADGES WERE A KEYSTONE HABIT…
• Learning experience driven by learning design &
assessment
• Step away from content-based courses in the LMS, and
go to activity & evidence based learning
• Make graduate learning outcomes visible
• Less linear, more exploratory learning
• Ability to unbundle assessment activities from learning
activities
• Flexible enrolment & assessment opportunities
• Appropriate staff involved at right time
• Improve feedback loop on progress but also ability to
display progress. Support from peers.
• Sharing of successful pathways
• ….
86. 2nd community call Thur 27 March, 7PM AEST/9PM NZ
Google+: OBANZ
Twitter: @ob_anz Facebook.com/openbadgesanz
MORE ABOUT OPEN BADGES?
87. FROM GUTENBERG TO ZUCKERBERG
John Naughton:
“One thing we’ve learned from the history
of communications technology is that
people tend to over-estimate the short
term impact of new technologies – and to
underestimate their long term
implications”