1. "If you have an apple and I have an apple and
we exchange these apples then you and I will
still each have one apple. But if you have an idea
and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas,
then each of us will have two ideas." - George
Bernard Shaw

2. Introduction

3. Why Open Badges?

4. What’s new? Happens now, right?

5. Mozilla’s Open Badges
Infrastructure
• Infrastructure for alternative credentialing
 Modern society demands new and dynamic skills and
literacies. Requires innovation and flexibility in
learning environments
• An indicator of accomplishment, skill or quality
• Networked = portability
• Learners centered - multiple learning pathways
to build skills, experiences and competencies
• More micro than educational certifications

7. • Capture the learning pathway
• Badges can be more granular, aligned to a
specific achievement
• Portable, alternative certification model(s)

8. • Perceived value will differ based on the
“use case”, i.e. the context or
community;
Education
Professional bodies
Peer to peer recognition
Corporate, workplace learning

9. Metadata – just the beginning…
• Who was the Issuer?
• Issue date
• Brief description of how badge was earned
• URIs to artefacts, testimonials etc.
• Web service for verification.
 “Did the Issuer issue the badge?”
 “Is it still valid?”

10. Overview on what we’re doing

11. Badges project timelines

12. Moodle as Issuer – Set-up

13. Badge “baking” – adding a badge

14. Criteria
Access
Expiry

15. Flexibility and automatic management
• Leverage Totara Activity and/or course completion to issue
Badges – enables very flexible criteria;
 E.g. viewing a web page or completing a field in your
profile
 Replying to a specific forum post
 Course completeion, activity completion, and also manual
issuing badges

16. Issuing a badge with message

17. The Learner Earns and Displays badges

18. Not only in the LMS

21. Mahara as a
backpack provider?
• OBI provides an open
infrastructure that will
underpin presentation of
work – e.g. CPD certification
• A badge backpack / Mahara
combination will enable you
 to display and collate badges
 click through to more detailed
levels of evidence and
explanation

22. Mahara as Issuer?
• Lightweight grading system?

23. What might happen next?
http://neilhammond.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/open-
badges-visual-design-and-semantic.html
 Evolve, impact on formal education
 Employers & learners may prefer it to standard CV
structures

24. Questions?