Using Open Badges to provide micro-credentials is a great way to track upskilling and career pathing for learners within organizations. This session will cover how micro-credentialing supports ongoing professional development and personalized learning pathways as it pertains to accomplishments and skills. By attending this session, you will: -Explore the open badge framework and how it can track progress to act as a workplace currency -Analyze why most organizations that try badging don't succeed in their goals -Learn how badges help solve the skills gap and how clients are using them to transform their learning culture. -Discover strategies for badging effectively at your organization.

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5. Address the Skills Gap Challenge With
Micro-Credentialing
Identifying and Recognizing Your Brilliance!

6. Agenda
1. What is the Skills Gap?
2. How can we address the gap?
3. What are Open Badges and how do they work?
4. What challenges can badges solve?
5. What types of badges should we create?

7. What is the Skills Gap?
From the Individual
The gap between the skills I
currently have, and the skills I
need to do work now and in the
future
Adecco found that out of 500 Sr.
Executives surveyed in the US:
Source: https://www.adeccousa.com/
employers/resources/skills-gap-in-the-
american-workforce/
From the Organization
The difference between skills
that we want or need,
and skills the workforce offers.

8. A recent ID example
Durable Skills for life

9. What are the consequences of
the skills gap?
- Unfilled work
- Higher unemployment
- Fewer growth opportunities
- Lack of product innovation
- Loss of profitability

10. How are Organizations Addressing the Gap?
Externally
• Hiring outside their locale
• Working with Educational institutions to
identify areas for improvement in programs to
go straight into work
Internally
• More mentorship across the organization
• Provide incentive for continuous learning
• Retraining their own workers for new roles
• Investing in training of all shapes and sizes,
lots of online

11. Our need in the workplace…
1. A way to track our current skillset to identify gaps
2. Institutions willing to offer training and to verify our skills
3. A way to verify our skillset to others
4. A common language to verify our skills
5. A way to demonstrate our skillset to current and future employers
6. A mindset of continuous self-improvement in ourselves and employees
7. A system of incentivization that encourages continuous development

12. Addressing the Skills Gap
Danielle Wilton
B.Sc Computer Science - 2011
5 years developer at Hooli
3 years developer at start up
10 LinkedIn recommendations
Surekha Kaur
B.Sc Computer Science - 2011
5 years developer at Pied Piper
2 years at start up
5 LinkedIn recommendations
?Who are you likely to interview first?

13. • Open Badges are a representation
of a competency or achievement
earned through participation,
progression or completion of
learning.
• Verifiable from issuer
• Can be shared across a variety of
platforms, social media
• Anyone can create these
Open Badges
Open Badges Peeled by Bryan Mathers

14. How do Badges Work?
Source: https://
www.imsglobal.org/sites/
default/files/Badges/
OBv2p0Final/impl/
index.html

15. What does it solve?
For the individual
• Digital accreditation that you can
take with you
• Provides others with insight into our
professional development
• Demonstrates continued efforts to
improve ourselves
• Incentivizes us to pursue new skills
• Acts as a currency in the workplace
New World of Work’s
21st Century Skills Badges

16. Badges are just for kids?

17. Why do we enjoy games so much?

18. What does it solve?
For the organization
• Identifies areas for improvement
• Increase outputs, productivity
• Demonstrates a culture of learning
• Helps to identify hidden talents among our
employees
• Identify distribution of talent and gaps
• Across sectors, helps create alignment with
skills needed for continuous improvement
IBM’s Digital Credentials

19. Who’s using Badges already?
Microsoft
Corporations
Purdue University
K12
Colleges
Universities
Worldchefs culinary badges
Professional
Organizations

20. Creating a Badge

21. Groovability
Groovability - Level 1
The importance of
collaboration in the workplace
is undeniable. You've
demonstrated that you can
groove with the best of us!
Congratulations, and keep
working hard to reach level 2!

22. How can we receive badges?
Membership
Organizations
Employers
MOOCs
Professional
Bodies
Conference
Attendance
Formal
Certification
programs
Educational
Institutions
Volunteering
Peer
Recognition

23. What badges to create?
1. Ask yourselves:
• What do we value?
• What do we need now and in the future?
2. Tie them to the core competencies
that your organization needs
3. Create badges based on
completion, measurement,
progress, experience

24. 7 Tips for considering badge types
1. We all have different motivations (competitive, collaborative)
2. Create badges that represent organizational values
3. Consider technical and interpersonal skills (4 C’s)
4. Not everyone should get the same badges
5. Minimize completion, maximize performance badges
6. Some badges may need to be manually issued
7. Create meta-badges that are challenging to get
C1 C2
+
C3 C4
+
4C

25. Types of Badges at D2L
Professional Development
Compliance
Achievement
Fun Badges

26. Knowing where to spend your time
Conduct a skills gap analysis
• During initial hiring phase to identify areas for improvement
• Change in their duties/role
• New project that requires additional skillset
• Ongoing
Can be a self-assessment, 360 feedback, management feedback

27. What might this look like?
Self-directed
Online
Community
of Practice
Mentorship
Workshops,
webinars
Projects
Job
shadowing
Manager
Feedback
Skills Gap
Analysis
Skills Gap
Analysis
In and ideal state for formalized education the LMS would handle:
• The existing skills and gaps of an individual
• A dashboard showing the common and unique competencies across an organization
• The analysis that would provide recommendations for offerings, coordinate support
• Personalized learning experiences at scale
• Manage assessment, and issue badges for successful completion

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