creating learning pathways with open badges

Creating Learning Pathways with Open Badges

Bob Pricehuxleypiguk@gmail.com

Creating learning pathways with Open Badges

What are Open Badges?

Creating learning pathways with Open Badges

Recognition

• Paper based• Easy to create• Easy to display• Difficult to verify

Creating learning pathways with Open Badges

Badges…Visual representations Skills

Learning

Competencies

Qualities

Achievements

Interests

Creating learning pathways with Open Badges

Digital badges: •An online reputation of a skill you have earned.

•Usually tied to specific applications or websites

•Not portable

Creating learning pathways with Open Badges

Open Badges

Led by Mozilla OrganisationOpen, online standard for verifying skills, learning, interests and achievementsImages with Metadata hard-coded into themRecognise formal or informal learningCollect badges from multiple sourcesinto a single backpack and share through social networks

Creating learning pathways with Open Badges

Badge nameDescription

CriteriaIssuer

EvidenceDate issued

StandardsTags

At its heart an Open Badge is a graphic file which has an embedded a chunk of code. This code gives the badges its credentials and includes:

The heartbeat of a badge

Creating learning pathways with Open Badges

How it works….

Training

Online Learning

Volunteer Programs

Learner

Creating learning pathways with Open Badges

How it works….

Open Backpack

Share to social networks and other websites

Job Opportunitie

s Lifelong Learning

New Possibilities

Creating learning pathways with Open Badges

CVs are a bunch of claims

Open Badges are a

bunch of evidence

Creating learning pathways with Open Badges

Creating learning pathways with Open Badges

Who is using them?

Creating learning pathways with Open Badges

Who is using them?

Creating learning pathways with Open Badges

Who is using them?

Creating learning pathways with Open Badges

Who is using them?

Creating learning pathways with Open Badges

Learning Pathways and Badges

Creating learning pathways with Open Badges

Steps to take

• Define clear criteria/definition of achievement to earn a badge

• Be clear on what is to be achieved• Build the framework• Publicise!

Creating learning pathways with Open Badges

Badging ecosystems

Define your standards

Validate

Verify

Authenticate

Standards from in house, QCF, external bodies

How do we validate the competencies that have been defined?

Who ensure that the badging system is operating correctly within the organisation?

Are the badges being displayed authentic and from the sources they say they are from?

Creating learning pathways with Open Badges

Learning pathways using badging ecosystems

Flat form badges are not dependant on each other

Creating learning pathways with Open Badges

DependentKey badges are dependant on other badges

+ =X Y Z

Learning pathways using badging ecosystems

Creating learning pathways with Open Badges

LevelledGraded badges with increasing difficulty

Learning pathways using badging ecosystems

Creating learning pathways with Open Badges

What else?

Creating learning pathways with Open Badges

Open Badgeswww.openbadges.org

Open Badges MOOCwww.courseites.com

Open Learnwww.open.edu/openlearn/

Barclays Digital Driving Licencewww.digitaldrivinglicence.barclays.co.uk

City & Guild Tech Bacwww.techbac.com/

Creating learning pathways with Open Badges

Thank You

huxleypiguk@gmail.com@bobpriceplnabout.me/bob.price