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Badges for lifelong learning
Citizen Science & Biodiversity: Meeting at the crossroadsThe Open University, 21st-23rd October 2011
A badge is a validated indicator of accomplishment, skill, quality or interest that
can be earned in any environment
http://www.dmlcompetition.net/
Mozilla badge infrastructurehttp://openbadges.org
• Badges Competition– Awards: $10K to $200K
• Stage 1: 14th Nov 2011• Stage 2: 12th Jan 2012• Stage 3: 28th Feb 2012
• Research Competition– Awards: $5K to $80K
• Nov 28th 2011
DML Competition
DML pitch• Internationalise our framework
– Should skill earned by identifying European organisms transfer to the rest of the world?
• Find new international partners– Developing new partnerships to provide expertise and
promotion in different regions of the world
• Re-articulate our badges as Open Badges– Align terminology and mechanisms to Mozilla
• Participate in the open badge ecosystem– Become badge providers and importers
Where next?• Ideas for badges?• Assessment / validation?• Partners or joint submission to DML competition?• Content schemes (Stage 1) and/or technical (Stage 2)?• Beyond the competition
Jon RosewellDept Communication & Systems, MCTThe Open UniversityWalton HallMilton KeynesMK7 6AA
www.open.ac.uk
Badges• Goals
– Set challenges & reward– Represent accomplishments– Communicate success
• Community– Support participation– Enable identity and reputation
Digital badges• Online record of achievement• Validated• Trace back to issuing organisation / individual• Collect, carry and display on social spaces
• Mozilla badge infrastructure– http://openbadges.org
Description of the badge opportunity, supporting content and curriculum, assessment criteria and any existing technology systems
Design, technology, or early prototypes for badging systems, using content proposals from Stage 1
Combine winners from Stages 1 & 2, ie content and technology,