Open Badges and Learning
CAS conference, 27 October 2012 / @dajbelshaw / [email protected]
Doug Belshaw
Today’s webinar
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 organization to issue, manage and display digital badges across the web. Doug Belshaw, Badges and Skills Lead at the Mozilla Foundation, talks about Open Badges and their potential in education.
Today’s webinar
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 organization to issue, manage and display digital badges across the web. Doug Belshaw, Badges and Skills Lead at the Mozilla Foundation, talks about Open Badges and their potential in education.
Today’s webinar
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 organization to issue, manage and display digital badges across the web. Doug Belshaw, Badges and Skills Lead at the Mozilla Foundation, talks about Open Badges and their potential in education.
Today’s webinar
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 organization to issue, manage and display digital badges across the web. Doug Belshaw, Badges and Skills Lead at the Mozilla Foundation, talks about Open Badges and their potential in education.
Who are you?
Dr. Doug BelshawBadges & Skills LeadMozilla Foundation
Mozilla!(global non-profit)
The Problem
Silo 1
Silo 2
Silo 3
Silo 1
Silo 2
Silo 3
PhD
Letter ofrecommendation
Professionalqualification
Silo 1
Silo 2
Silo 3
PhD
Letter ofrecommendation
ProfessionalqualificationWhat skills/
attributes are missing here?
(and can we present them in a holistic way?)
Towards a Solution?
( )http://mozillafestival.org 9-11 November, London
What if we usedbadges for learning?
Not just digital badges but Open Badges
Open Badges are images with metadata hard-coded into them
Visual representations ofachievements, learning, skills,
interests, competencies
Open Badges can complementtraditional
education practices
They can accommodateformal & informallearning pathways
They can represent hard & softskills, peer assessment, and stackable lifelong learning
Open Badges can capture learning wherever & however itoccurs—allowing for innovation
StealthAssessment
Open Badges?(What about degrees, certificates, diplomas?)
Not simply either/or—both/and!
How do we get there?
Through a shared badge ecosystem & infrastructure:
a universal standard.
OpenBadgeInfrastructure(OBI)
BADGE DISPLAY SITES
SUCCESS
after-school program free online course government agency
DISPLAY SITES
personal web site
social networking profiles
WordPress / Tumblr
job sites
RESULTS
new learning
unlock opportunities
jobs
EndorsersIssuersEarners
Displayers
Who’s involved?
BADGE DISPLAY SITES
SUCCESS
Any questions for me yet?
The future.
Now!
On Twitter: @dajbelshaw
Via email: [email protected]
Ask me hard questions!
http://openbadges.org
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges
https://groups.google.com/d/forum/openbadges
Useful links:
EXPLORING CREATING CONNECTING PROTECTING
BEGINNERBEGINNERBEGINNERBEGINNER
Browser basics(e.g. URLs, copy/
paste)
HTML basics(e.g. adding images,
linking)
Participation(e.g. etiquette,
curation)
Privacy(e.g. cookies, privacy
controls)
Search engine basics
(e.g. keyword search, filtering)
CSS basics(e.g. fonts,
positioning)
Collaboration(e.g. co-creation,
wikis)
Security basics(e.g. HTTPS, password
management)
Web mechanics(e.g. view source,
hyperlinks)
Web design basics
(e.g. affordances of the web, designing for
audiences)
Sharing(e.g. social networks,
embedding)
Rights online(e.g. copyright, open
licensing)
EXPLORING CREATING CONNECTING PROTECTING
INTERMEDIATEINTERMEDIATEINTERMEDIATEINTERMEDIATE
Browser skills(e.g. cookie
management, add-ons)
Javascript basics(e.g. programming basics, javascript
syntax)
Contributing to web communities
(e.g. distributed working, collaborative
curation)
Identity(e.g. personal
information curation, tracking management)
Credibility(e.g. trustworthiness
of websites, evaluating
information)
Advanced web design
(e.g. responsive design, accessibility)
Storytelling(e.g. multimedia,
augmentation)
Security & encryption
(e.g. data protection, basic encryption)
Remixing(e.g. mashups,
hackable games)
Infrastructure(e.g. hosting,
domains)
Open practices(e.g. open standards,
open source)
Legalese on the web
(e.g. privacy policies, terms of service
agreements)
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