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Creating a new learning currency with Open Badges

Gráinne Hamilton & Anna [email protected]@[email protected]

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What are open badges?

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A web standard which captures & communicates skills and attributes

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http://openbadges.org

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Silo 1 Silo 2

Silo 4

Formal qualifications

After schoolclub certificates

Onlinelearning

Silo 3

Professional development

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Badges in Numbers

March 2015:- 14,000 issuers worldwide- 2 Million badges issued- 342,300 badges sent to backpacks- 88,585 backpacks

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What’s happening?

April 2015:- IMS announcement

May 2015:- Endorsement and annotation built

into OBI

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IMS Digital Credentialing Initiative

• Establish Digital Badges as common currency for K-20 and corporate education

• Partnership with Mozilla• Further adoption, integration

and transferability• Extend digital transcripts and

competency-based education interoperability

From Flickr, William Warby, Pound Coins CC By 2.0

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Endorsement:

A method of publishing approval or

acceptance of Open Badges using an

extension to the Open Badges specification

itself.For further information on the Open Badges endorsement features, see Nate Otto’s slides at: http://bit.ly/obendorse

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Open Badge: A statement of trust in an individual.

Open Badge Endorsement: A statement of trust in an Open Badge or issuer.

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Assertion:

“Margaret has earned the Digital Practitioner badge”

Endorsement Assertion:

“The Digital Practitioner badge evidences teaching and learning excellence and can be used towards Higher Education Academy accreditation”

(By Higher Education Academy)

Possibilities… A statement of

trust in an Open Badge or issuer.

You can better trust a badge if you trust its endorsers.

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Assertion:

“Margaret has earned the

Digital Practitioner badge”

BadgeClass:

“Digital Practitioner Badge

by University of Dunedin”

Issuer:

“University of Dunedin”

Endorsement Assertion:

“Margaret keeps up to date

with learning technology developments and deserves

the Digital Practitioner badge”Endorsement BadgeClass:

“The University of Dunedin’s Digital Practitioner badge is backed by quality assessments”Endorser:

“The University of Dunedin

issue high quality badges”

What can be endorsed?

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Annotation is a partner extension to endorsement that lets 3rd parties contribute to badge object meaning.

“The Achiever Badge aligns to Educational

Standard X”

Annotation:

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“The Digital Practitioner Badge aligns to the UKPSF

Areas of Activity: A4”

Annotation Assertion example:

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One backpack orfederated backpacks?

From Flickr, Matthias Ripp, Backpacking CC By 2.0

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Badges in Action

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University of Sussex - badges to recognise staff CPD

Some current Open Badge projects in UK

Higher EducationEdinburgh University Students Association - badges to recognise skills gained by Class Reps and enhance employability

Abertay University - badges to showcase HEAR related activities

University of Dundee - badges to recognise skills gained by students while co-creating the medical curriculum

University of Sheffield - badges issued during a MOOC by the radiology dept. Those applying for a degree can use their badges for a reduction in fees and as credit towards modules

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Badges schemes created with...

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Open Badge projects

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What’s influencing

DigitalMe’s Open Badge system

and consultancy developments?

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Mozilla Discover Open Badges

• Badge-based pathways to employment proof of concept

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Interviews with employees

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Employee pathways

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Brian B. Senior Engineer at Mozilla

Brian loves words, whether those words make up hundreds of lines of code or the sentences of a novel. His job at Mozilla involves a combination of both, since he codes and writes specifications for others who want to use the tools he builds. Words aside, he loves playing games, chopping wood(!) and cooking. Did we mention he rocks a bass (and a wicked hairstyle) in more than one band?

Senior Engineer / OBI Architect

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Employer pathways logic

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Employer pathwaytrees

• Pathways for particular jobs• Clear statement about the

employer’s needs• Highlight skills and attributes

required• Templates showcase employer

issued badges • Placeholders for formal

qualifications or badges linked to open learning opportunities, eg Mozilla Web Literacy badges

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Earner /employee…

• Fills in pathways with badges• Tell their story• Set goals (unearned badges) • Plan a career• Copy pathways to explore

options

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Matt B. Senior QA Engineer at Mozilla

Matt likes breaking things and then putting them back together to improve them. His job as a QA engineer in the Firefox team involves everything from finding things that don't work - otherwise know as bugs - to coordinating projects within the open source community, such as new feature requests. His path is full of different jobs and adventures from rock-climbing to making tofu and being a psychologist at a youth detention center.

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

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Employer

ExpertPeer

Multiple Validation

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Evidence Skills | Build Networks

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Discover and capture learning wherever it happens

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Evidence Work

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Gain Endorsement

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Share achievements to unlock opportunities

My interests

My training

My experiences

My achievements

My work

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of lifelong learning

Begin the journey

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● Recognize the skills you need

● Incentivise and engage people

● Connect and grow your network

Organisations

● Evidence all your achievements

● Build and expand your capabilities

● Connect with opportunities

Individuals

Connecting

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The OBA will launch with an innovative app so you can earn, issue and share badges on the move

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Launch your academy and create badges

Create your badges Learners find your badgeLaunch academy

Award badges Learners add evidence

Grow and track your network of talent

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OBA launches with TechFuture Academy

“Employers will be able to set industry relevant challenges and badge the recognised skills to further employability skills, with employer reference on the badge showing the company support. This will enable young people to develop their employability skills recognised by employers”,

Julie Feest, Head of Strategic Partnerships | On Behalf of the Tech Partnership

*TechFuture Academy is a collaboration amongst Tech Partnership members (formerly e-skills) with support from Telefonica

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Follow your interests to find possible routes to new opportunities.

Build your capabilities to stand out from the crowd.

Create your ideal career.

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