open badges & digitalme badge conference presentation ple 2013 berlin
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What are Open Badges? Who is using them? How to design themTRANSCRIPT
Open Badges In The Wild/ PLE13 Berlin / 5 July 2013
Tim Riches! @triches!
In the UK…!
Badge the UKHelp Us
Badge The UK Creators!
http://openbadges.org
Who else is using Open Badges?
Some of the organisations involved in the ecosystem
Size of Open Badges ecosystem
( ) Data correct as of 4 July 2013
800+
issuers - such as NASA,
Purdue University, Disney, etc.
http://workforce.io/
Badge Issuers!
Vital stats4,000 Schools75,000 Students10,000 Teachers
Badge Issuers
http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/dln/special/DigitalBadges.html
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/studio/passport/
What are Open Badges?
Open Badges are images with metadata hard-coded into them
CC BY-SA Kyle Bowen
What’s the problem?
Silo 1
Silo 2
Silo 3
GCSEs, eBacc, etc.
After school club certificates
Online learning
Silo 1
Silo 2
Silo 3
What skills/attributes are missing here?
(how can we best present them in a holistic way?)
GCSEs, eBacc, etc.
Online learning
After school club certificates
How are Open Badges a solution?
Visual representations of achievements, learning, skills,
interests, competencies
They can accommodate formal & informal learning pathways
Mozilla has built (and will maintain) the plumbing���
Open Badges can capture learning wherever & however it occurs—allowing for innovation
They can represent hard & soft skills, peer assessment, and stackable lifelong learning
Open Badges? (What about degrees, certificates, diplomas?)
Not simply either/or —both/and!
Open Badges Infrastructure (OBI)
Problem 2: how can we use the power of the web to raise value of 21
century learning?!
Distributed Recognition
Bridging: formal-informal, primary-secondary, secondary-further education, education-employment, job progression!
Badge Creators!
Download canvases at www.digitalme.co.uk/badgetheuk
Badge design process!
Design Tools!
Badge Endorsers!
Badge Displayers!
Badge Consumers!
Badge ‘App Store’!
Badge design canvas guide Download canvases at www.digitalme.co.uk/badgetheuk
A strong wind blows…
1. Audience
Primary & secondary age (Open Badges for
13+) Teachers
Teachers
Other pupils Technology companies Colleges / UniversiBes
Stand out digital CV Access to soFware &
hardware Days out of school
presenBng
Recognise genuine learning
Industry recognition
IdenBfy talent Staff engagement
Technology sector companies
UniversiBes / college
ExisBng db Conferences Makewaves
Endorser channels
Teacher & peer Monitored by DigitalMe
2. Components Digital Leader Explorer Badge
• Learn to use soFware / hardware
• Knowledge of main funcBons • Ideas of how it could be applied to solve a problem
• Working independently • Resilience
• Self Confidence
• Create and deliver a presentaBon on technology
discovered • Field quesBons from group
• Share presentaBon online
• Teacher / snr peer confirms
presentaBon by awarding the badge
3. Badge pathways
Explorer: Independently explore & share Reactor: Responds to a brief, applies tech to solve a
problem Project: Works as part of a team on extended project
Sub badges e.g. presenter, coder, help desk, ambassador (three earned for each badge)
4. Resources
- Staff time: develop endorser relationships, presentations, training, create support materials, fund raising
- Badge issuing platform / plugin (www.makewav.es in this case)
- Displayer: Wordpress, Moodle, Linkedin, Thimble CV? - Expenses
5. Design
Tweet your badge next action to #openbadges!
@triches!www.digitalme.co.uk/!