Making sense of the new world of digital credentials

c.casilli@gmail.com @carlacasilli

today’s presentation 1. degrees. 2. badges? 3. community :) 4. credentials! 5. what’s ahead…

degrees.

~ 7,000,000 NYS residents have a high school diploma

or “some college” 2015 census

tweeted yesterday by Christine Kroll :)

degree assumptions

universal understood

clear

“ GPAs are worthless as a criteria for hiring and

test scores are worthless… We found that they don’t

predict anything.”

“…the proportion of [employees] without any college education

has increased…we have teams where 14% … [have] never gone to college”

Lazlo Block Google's senior vice president

of people operations

degree reality

generalized mixed signals

opaque

Title Textbadges?!

2010

What if we could capture learning

whenever and wherever it happened?

Open badges act as digital representations

of achievements, learning, skills, attributes, competencies, etc.

core tenets: interoperable, flexible, granular, transferable, and connected

They map learning pathways connecting

formal & informal learning

Earned across a lifetime,open badges become a

personal portfolio of what you know and can do

badge name badge URL (description) badge criteria badge image issuer issue date recipient tags alignment (standards) expiration date evidence URL

More information at http://openbadgespec.org/

14,000 issuers worldwide ~2 million badges issued

342,300 badges sent to backpacks 88,585 backpacks

March 2015

community :)

not best practices, informed practices

25Higher-Ed: Purdue University

26

SKILL KNOWLEDGE HONOR EXPERIENCE COMPETENCE

Strategic Management

Systems Thinking

Experimentation & Inquiry

Interpersonal Communication

Understanding Values

Civic Engagement

Personal Development

SYSTEM OF BADGES FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE & FOOD SYSTEMS MAJOR

AT UC DAVIS

Category-level Badges

Badges for the SA&FS Competencies

Higher-Ed: University of CA, Davis

27Higher-Ed: University of Michigan

28Higher-Ed: U of M Medical School

29Higher-Ed: Indiana University

30Higher-Ed: University of Wisconsin-Madison

31Higher-Ed: Coastal Carolina University

32Higher-Ed: Deakin University

33Higher-Ed: Curtin University

34Peer-based learning: P2PU

35Civic: 4H

36Cultural institutions: AMNH

37Cities: Cities of Learning

38Govt agencies: NASA

39PD: RSA Consulting

40PD: Dale Carnegie

41Workforce: Manufacturing Institute

42

Explorer

Knowledge Completes a quiz or

assessment

Advocate

Skills Demonstrates a skill

or has applied the skill

Inventor

CapabilitiesDesigns and develops

new solutions

Certified

AuthorityHas completed a

certification at IBM

Workforce: IBM

43Workforce: Adobe

44Workforce: Human Resources

Title Textcredentials!

badges microcredentials

certificates nanodegrees

degrees licenses

certifications etc.

High schools Out of school / after school orgs

Open learning orgs Community orgs

Colleges + universities Large cultural institutions

Workforce etc.

Title Textlooking ahead…

Connecting Credentials Credentials Transparency Initiative

Connected Credentials W3C

PESC Transcript

credentialing language

universal understood

clear

credentialing language

universal understood

clear

credentialing language

inclusive understood

clear

technology language

human readable machine readable

competencies experiences

abilities skills

knowledge aptitudes

proficiencies interests

etc.

Digital credentials: making senseof a new world