Opening presentation for University College London Open Badge design day. Covering: - Problems in educational assessment / recognition - Open badges technology - S2R Medals - an Open Badge case study - Badge design process

1. Designing
Open
Badges
20
March
13
Tim
Riches
@triches

2. Via
professor
Mike
Sharples
@triches

3. Via
professor
Mike
Sharples
@triches

4. Via
professor
Mike
Sharples
@triches

5. #
Problem
1:
How
do
we
capture
learning
that
happens
everywhere?

6. Skills that are in-
demand by employers:
“Over 70% of employers
want employability skills to
become a top education
priority.”
The CBI

7. #
Problem
2:
How
can
we
present
a
holis@c
view
of
learning
&
achievements?

8. #
Problem
3:
How
can
we
connect
talent
with
opportunity?

9. What
if
we
used
badges
for
learning?

10. Badges
and
the
web

11. >
Unlocking
rewards…

12. What
are
Open
Badges?
Open Badges are images with
metadata hard-coded into them

15. Mozilla!!
(global non-profit)!

18. DISPLAY SITES
personal web site job sites
social networking WordPress / Tumblr
profiles

25. Young
people’s
perspec@ve
on
badges…

26. Open Badge Case
Study
S2R Medals

27. Digital
media
+
learning
compe@@on
winners

28. 500 young people, from all over the UK, directly involved so far in this
outstanding, award-winning media project.
24,000 young people reached in school through outreach and our
Radiowaves partnership

29. S2R
Par@cipants

30. Ac@vi@es…
Local
repor@ng…
Reporters have interviewed hundreds of interesting people and
created over 10,000 reports and blogs

31. Challenging
na@onal
events..

32. Who Knows Us?

33. www.makewav.es/s2r

34. S2R
Open
Badges
QualitaEve
assessment
of
skills
by
peers/leaders
3
sets
Journalist,
Coach
&
Producer
3
levels
in
each
set:
Bronze,
Silver
&
Gold

35. Community
Achievements
Not
pushed
out
to
Open
Badge
Infrastructure
and
main
value
is
within
community
Granular
markers
of
acEvity

36. Student
&
feedback:
Venture
Academy

37. Context
• Academy
of
around
600
students
• Wanted
to
create
a
plaPorm
for
student
voice
• Wanted
to
echo
our
Academy
rewards
culture
digitally

41. why
a
ba
wha
and
wha
usin
wha
you/
expa
syste
wha
futu

43. How
students
earn
badges
Low
level
S2R
Medals
and
Makewaves
Badges
are
automa@cally
awarded
Teachers
and
Peers
can
award
higher
level
badges
once
skills
have
been
achieved
Teachers
will
also
be
able
to
create
and
award
their
own
badges
makewav.es/s2r
@_S2R
#S2RMedals

44. How
teachers
award
badges
makewav.es/s2r
@_S2R
#S2RMedals

45. A
Student’s
perspec@ve
What
skills
did
we
learn?
1. Working
as
a
team
with
people
you
would
not
usually
mix
with
2. Timekeeping
and
organisaEon
3. Literacy
4. Confidence

46. Challenges
• MeeEng
regularly
• Teachers
contribuEng
• The
emphasis
on
sport

47. Opportuni@es
• Achieving
‘Investors
in
Pupils’
• CreaEng
badges
tailored
for
our
Academy:
• Sports
Leaders
• Accelerated
Reader
• Student
Leadership
• Subject
Leadership

48. Badges
issued
9
March
2013
15
13
117
10
46
19
“Woohoo
I
have
a
lot
of
makewaves
badges
now
:)
I
am
really
proud
of
myself
and
if
you
want
some
makewaves
badges
like
me
get
makewaving!”
Supermario8
makewav.es/s2r
@_S2R
#S2RMedals

49. Easy
to
use
Framework
and
Resources
for
Teachers
makewav.es/s2r
@_S2R
#S2RMedals

50. Badge
design
process

51. User
perspec@ve
design:
Creators
o
Issuers
o
Earners
o
Consumers
o

52. Process
based
design:
>
Skills,
behaviours,
acEviEes
>
Evidence,
milestones,
levels
>
MoEvaEon
&
endorsement
>
Issuing
/
assessment
>
Display
>
Design

53. Digital
Leader
Badges
(in-­‐progress
design)

54. Student
Digital
Leaders/
Design
Workshop
Ques@ons…
 www.digitalme.co.uk

@triches

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