open badges: making learning visible - badge challenge version
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Open Badges & Skills Portfolios:
Visual Pathways to the FutureBADGE CHALLENGEVERSION
November 17, 2014
Don Presant
Presentation at:bit.ly/challenge_dl_badges
Origins of Badges
• Since pre-Roman times
• Heraldry, Military, Blue Light, Boy Scouts
• Public recognition:achievement, affiliation, authority
• Online engagement: gamification
www.britishbadgeforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7253
metronews.ca/Badge Tracking Android App earnyourwings.aircanada.com
A digital representation of an accomplishment, interest or affiliation that is visual, available online, and contains metadata including trusted links that help explain the context, meaning, process and result of an activity. As an open artefact, the earner can present the badge in different contexts from which it was earned.
• Clear progress markers– Motivating learners, supporting
advisors
• Flexible learning pathways– Granular, incremental, multi-source,
laddered, remixable
• Visual branding– Issuers and learners
• Online trust system– Demonstrate skills & capabilities– Proof of performance– Backed by issuer
What is an Open Badge?Micro credentials - modular record of learning
What is an Open Badge?Different perspectives…
TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION• A portable graphic with an embedded description and links
to supporting information
SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT• A micro-credential• A discrete record in a modular transcript
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT• A reward for positive (prescribed) behaviour• A marker on a development path
…a simple digital standard for recognizing and sharing achievements, skills and performance
MATUREADULT
YOUTH
Open Badges: Lifelong, Lifewide Learning
LOWSTAKES
HIGHSTAKES
VolunteerExperience
WorkPlacements
AfterSchool
Programs
ClassroomEngagement
WorkplaceEngagement
PersonalLearning
MOOCs
Co-CurricularRecord
Workshops
P/T & Summer
JobsAdmission to
Higher Ed
Admission toPost GradSchools
Job Hire
Conferences
Recognitionof Prior
Learning
EmployabilityPortfolio
CareerTransition
Promotion
Communitiesof
Practice
Memberships,Affiliations
Awards,Achievements
TeamBuilding “Hard”
Credentials
“Soft”Credentials
Red Cross, Cadets, Scouts,
etc.
E-learningCourses
FormativeFeedback
Awards,Achievements
ContinuingEducation
Open Badges & Social Media
Curated in ePortfolio…Interactive criteria…
LinkedIn Profile…
Facebook timeline…
Pulled from Backpack…
Emerging public policyUS Secretary of Education
Emerging public policy: UK Minister of State for Skills and Enterprise
“In broad terms, the conferring of an Open Badge on a learner is similar to the award of a qualification certificate, and the same quality standards must be ensured.
The emerging opportunities offered by Open Badges in the areas of peer assessment, employer partnership, learning analytics and the engagement of learners means that it should be considered in learning technology at various levels.
We will encourage Awarding Organisations, Ofqual and Ofsted to be aware of the potential of this technology.”
Further Education Learning Technology Action Group (FELTAG) recommendations: government response
Matthew Hancock, June 2014
Open Badges & workforce entryMissouri Customer Service Badges
Continuing EducationCredentialing non-credited PD
“There are 120 badges to be rolled out this summer (2014), encompassing multiple assessments within 25-30 new classes not currently part of the system.”
madisoncollege.edu/badges
Strategic Objective:Creation and promotion of innovative, market-based credentials in credit, non-credit and customized programming (i.e. Badges).
Future VisionPerformance Management/Professional Development
http://rwagroup.co.uk/open-badges-are-here/
Open Badges & workplace learningMeeting the skills needs of employers
• Filtering new hires• Tracking internal training• Brokering external training
– Functional skills, Essential Skills, Leadership
• Recognizing formal learning– Social learning (communities of practice)– Experiential learning
(e.g. Work Integrated Learning, projects, temporary assignments)
– Self-directed learning (e.g. reading, reflection, goal-oriented “missions”)
• Building skills passports, micro-portfolios• Assembling teams, building organizational
portfolios• Managing performance, developing careers,
grooming emerging talent
Workforce PipelineCity & Guilds (UK vocational qualifications body)
bit.ly/pipeline-CandG
Badge Solution: Open Badge Factory Cloud-based badge management & exchange
openbadgefactory.com
Features and Benefitsopenbadgefactory.com
• Currently:– Centralized cloud service with Open API: manage badges
in one place, issue in many (LMS, HR, etc.)– Controlled access for organizations– Controlled roles within organizations
• Creator, Issuer, Administrator
– Detailed reports– Badge applications (requests)– Milestone badges (meta-badges)
• Coming soon:– Multi-lingual badges– Badge Passport (c. November)
Dec 2014: Badge PassportCompanion to Open Badge Factory
• Flexible alternative to Mozilla Backpack– Connected to Open Badge Factory & Mozilla Backpack– Micro-portfolios: profile, badges, supporting information
• Badge communities hosted by issuers/aggregators– Companies, educators/trainers, associations, sectors,
professional bodies, funders, regions– Join, share, discover, match and aggregate badges
• Badge earners, badges to earn, badges sought• Search and report based on badge data
• Tiered subscription model– Free for badge earners– Subscriptions for organizations– Custom installations for private/complex solutions
A cloud-powered Skills Exchange “Small pieces, loosely joined”
Mozilla BackpackStore, Share badges
Open Badge FactoryCreate, Issue, Manage
badges
Badge PassportStore, Share, Connect
badges
Open API
OpenAPI
Moodle Plug-in
Issue badges
Mahara ePPlug-in
Issue badges
Global Badge CommunityIssuers, earners
OpenAPI
IssuerGroups
EarnerPassports
Open APIs
Modular.Flexible.
Interoperable.
eLearningPlatforms
ePortfolioPlatforms
SAP, Oracle(ERP/HRIS)
CommunityPlatforms
WordPress,Drupal (CMS)
Other possible plug-ins
A new skills currencyOpen Badges, ePortfolios &“Badge Passports”
• Visually efficient and appealing– Engages, builds confidence, provides continuing feedback
• Individual pathways, multiple sources of learning– Formal <---> non-formal <---> informal learning – Modular, stackable, diverse, remixable, portable, shareable
• Programs not completed can be partially recognized and recombined• Add evidence, reflection as appropriate• Drill down to specifics, or roll up into larger outcomes• Combined in badge passports & ePortfolios• Common standard for skills exchange
• Trustable, easy to understand– Transparent criteria, evidence, issue/expiry date– Flexible alignment to frameworks, requirements, training
plans– Issuing organization is validated and branded by the badges
it issues; maintains ongoing connection to earners– Learner centred, employer friendly
don@learningagents.caWeb: learningagents.ca
Twitter: donpresantePortfolio: donpresant.ca
Presentation at:bit.ly/challenge_dl_badges
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