Open Badges:Visual Pathways to the

Future

YOUTH AND COMMUNITY VERSION

May 10, 2014

Don Presant

Brief introduction

http://www.savvyfolio.net/user/don/overview-open-badges

Origins

• Badges, medals, ribbons since pre-Roman times

• Military, Boy Scouts, Girl Guides • Public recognition rewarding positive

(desired) behaviour• More recently: video games – “leveling up”

Girl Guides of Canada via Flickr CCBY

Leveling up at Khan AcademyInternal Badges for Learning

Open Badges and Digital Certification

• Visually efficient and appealing– Fun, motivating to earn (gamification)– Automatically / manually awarded

• Individual learning pathways– Modular, flexible, diverse, portable, shareable– Blendable: multiple sources can be combined

through individual badge passports & ePortfolios– Progress in incomplete programs can still be

recognized and recombined

• Transparent, “trustable”– Criteria, evidence, issue/expiry date– Ongoing connection to issuer

Open Badges An evolving ecosystem

http://openmatt.org/

Open Badges Simple structure: image + data

bit.ly/ePIC2013_Belshaw

Open Badges Assessment and display

bit.ly/ePIC2013_Belshaw

Badges for/of learning

http://www.slideshare.net/sjc36/badges-at-theformalinformalinterfacecrossgalley2013

BadgeAttainment

Badge Display

IntrinsicMotivation

Extrinsic Motivation

Formative Summative

‘They make me smile! Which is a good thing – learning should be fun and I think this was a fun element of the course’

‘Earned my Week 1 Badge from #oldsmooc! Unexpectedly pleased to have a reward for effort! What fun and motivates

‘I’m not sure yet if I’ll really use them [externally]’

‘I decided that they might be useful as evidence of professional development … I don’t know if anyone in my institution will care, but in case they do, I have the badges.’

http://transformingassessment.com/TA_webinar_5_mar_2014_Simon_Cross.pdf

Stackable Credentials Slideshare

https://community.lincs.ed.gov/discussion/welcome-digital-badges-discussion-q1-how-are-badges-different-credentialing-methods-used-

Benefits

Learner• Confidence building• Pathway building• Blending from multiple sourcesProvider• Visualizing• Reporting• Branding• Blending, AggregatingEmployer• Recruitment• Reporting• Team building• HC development, performance management

Digital certificates with Open Badges Think: “online micro credential”

Richard Wyles, Totara LMS at MaharaUK12http://maharauk.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=117 Video: Chicago Summer of Learning

Badge PathwaysMozilla Webmaker

http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2012/08/15/what-were-up-to-with-mozilla-webmaker-open-badges/

Open Badges and Digital Certification

• Competency based– Can parallel formal certification, or feed into it

• Visually efficient and appealing– Fun, motivating to earn (?)

• Transparent, trustable– Criteria, evidence, issue/expiry date– Ongoing connection to issuer

• Individual learning pathways– Granular milestones; see progress in MOOCs, OERs

• Progress in incomplete programs can still be recognized

– Flexible, diverse, blendable, portable, shareable

• Automatically / manually awarded

Open Badges Assessment and display

bit.ly/ePIC2013_Belshaw

Badges at the school levelOverview

http://badges.concordiashanghai.org/use-cases/

School levelDetail: community service

http://badges.concordiashanghai.org/issue-a-badge/sample-badges/

School levelOther applications

• Physical Education

• Academic stretch goals

• Intramural affiliation

http://badges.concordiashanghai.org/issue-a-badge/sample-badges/

Community levelChicago Summer of Learning

bit.ly/CSOLplaylist

Open Badges Chicago Summer of Learning

• City of Chicago, MacArthur Foundation, Mozilla– 125 participating organizations– More than 210,000 young people– ~150,000 badges awarded

• 3% participation, 92% skill, 5% achievement

• STEAM-based programming– Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts &

Mathematics– Driven by the interests of the youth participants

Community cluster in CanadaAfter School Program and Community College

Community levelWorkforce entry skills

bit.ly/ePIC2013_Belshaw

Workforce.io

Workforce.io

Modular portfolio

• Technical Skills• Essential Skills

– HARD: literacy, numeracy, document management

– SOFT: working with others, critical thinking, problem solving, etc.

• Conference Board Employability Skills• 21st Century Skills

• Achievements, accomplishments, artefacts (evidence), affiliations

Open BadgesMaking learning visible

• Progress markers– Motivating learners,

supporting advisors

• Learning pathways– Granular, incremental, flexible

• Visual branding– Issuers and learners

• Online trust system– Demonstrate skills &

capabilities

Six Ways to Look at Badging Systems Designed for Learning

• Alternative Assessment• Gamifying Education• Learning Scaffolding• Develop Lifelong Learning Skills• Driver for Digital Media & Learning• Democratize Learning

Barry Joseph, Global Kids, IncQuoted by David Wiley

Templates

http://www.digitalme.co.uk/badgecanvas

See also: http://bit.ly/BadgeSystemDesignTemplate

Open Badge Factory Centralized badge management

bit.ly/ePIC2013_Rousselle

Features and Benefitsopenbadgefactory.com

• Current:– Controlled access for organizations– Controlled roles within organizations

• Creator, Issuer, Administrator

– Detailed reports– Badge applications

• Coming:– Meta-badges (c. May)

• Linear, clustered…

– Badge Passport (c. June)• Private/public badges, badge collections• Mobile display

– Suggestions from beta community

Badge Challenge!

http://bit.ly/challenge_dl_badges

don@learningagents.caWeb: learningagents.ca

Twitter: donpresantePortfolio: donpresant.ca