ASN LOOKING AT TOMORROW AND THE COMPETENCY ECOSYSTEM

Weaving new threads

Individualized/Adaptive Learning

• Return to Kees’ keynote—and the industrial/agrarian model of today’s elementary/secondary education

• In that industrial, factory model of education, time is the constant and competency is the variable.

• In the individualized, adaptive model of education, competency is the constant and time is the variable...– in fact,

• Time is a variable, and

• Place is a variable, and

• How (and by Whom) is a variable, and

• Pace is a variable!

Individualized/Adaptive Learning

• Today’s “teachers” become “educators” that teach some, mentor a lot and help orchestrate and validate student learning anywhere, anytime, anyway and at any pace

• New Hampshire in the U.S. has abandoned the “Carnegie Unit” making competency the constant and time the variable.

Today

Tomorrow

Competency Ecosystem

SchoolsUniversity

Courses Instructor/course-level competencies

Certification

Digital Badges Anywhere / everywhereLearning (experiential badging)

Formal & commercial certification programs

Bologna etc (Europe)/Tuning U.S.

Jurisdictionally Prescribed Competencies

Instructor-defined Learning Outcomes

Digital Badges & Anywhere / Everywhere Learning

‘Certified’ Experiences

HIGHER EDUCATION The Bologna Process & Beyond (U.S.?)

Europe’s Bologna Process and a Lagging U.S.

• Public degree qualification frameworks– Disciplinary/field– National– Institutional

• Coherence– Competencies & learning outcomes

Indiana Commission for Higher Education (ICHE)—History

History Competencies (Associate Level (Short-Cycle))History Awareness Competencies

Ability to:1. recognize, appreciate, and understand how people have existed, acted, and

thought in the always different context of the past (continuity and change over an extended period of time)

2. recognize and appreciate the complexity and diversity of situations, events, and past realities (time depth; and geographical range) and respect points of view from deriving other national or cultural backgrounds

3. recognize and appreciate the importance and critical perspective of historical knowledge for contemporary society

4. recognize, appreciate, and understand the nature of history as a discipline; its social rationale, theoretical underpinning, and intellectual standing; the interdisciplinary and global dimension of professional history (what questions historians and why)

5. ...6. ...

AD HOC COURSE COMPETENCIES AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Instructor-defined

Course-level Competencies

“Demonstrate how complex expressions are

built from basic patterns.”

ASN Representation of Ad Hoc Course Competences

<asn:Statement rdf:about="http://asn.jesandco.org/resources/S23664635"> <asn:authorityStatus rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNAuthorityStatus/ Original"/> <asn:indexingStatus rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNIndexingStatus/Yes"/> <dcterms:isPartOf rdf:resource="http://asn.jesandco.org/resources/D10345FB"/> <dcterms:educationLevel rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/ASNEducationLevel/ Graduate"/> <dcterms:subject rdf:resource="http://purl.org/ASN/scheme/UWiSchool/metadata"/> <dcterms:description xml:lang="en-US">Demonstrates how complex expressions are built from basic patterns</dcterms:description> <dcterms:language rdf:resource="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng"/> <gemq:isChildOf rdf:resource="http://asn.jesandco.org/resources/S8726736"/></asn:Statement>

HE Course-Level Competencies

HE Degree/Credentialing Unit-Level Competencies

Discipline/Profession-Level Competencies

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Context:Higher Education

Context:Schools

School-Level Competencies

CERTIFICATION & THE GLOBAL ACADEMIES

Global Examples

Cisco Networking Academy

• 9,000 local academies

• 50 U.S. States & 165 countries• 1,000,000

students• 20,000 instructors

Cisco Networking Academy

• 9,000 local academies

• 50 U.S. States & 165 countries• 1,000,000

students• 20,000 instructors

Microsoft Certification

Coherent Certification with Mobile Societies

• Across geography• Across credentialing authorities

DIGITAL BADGESEverywhere / Anywhere Learning /Endorsement

Definition

“A 'badge' is a symbol or indicator of an accomplishment, skill, quality or interest. From the Boy and Girl Scouts … to the more recently popular geo-location game, Foursquare, badges

have been successfully used to set goals, motivate behaviors, represent achievements and communicate success in many contexts.”

http://bit.ly/badgepaper4

Badges Support…

• Capturing and translating learning across contexts– Capturing of the learning path

– Achievement signaling

• Encouraging and motivating participation and learning outcomes– Motivation

• Formalizing and enhancing existing social aspects of informal and interest-driven learning– Identity/reputation building

– Community building/kinshiphttp://bit.ly/badgepaper4

“Badges can help speed the shift from credentials that simply measure seat time, to

ones that more accurately measure competency. We must accelerate that

transition. And, badges can help account for formal and informal learning in a variety of

settings.”—Arne Duncan, Secretary, U.S. Department of Education

Mozilla: Open Badges Infrastructure (OBI)• The OBI includes infrastructure:– Badges (skills, interests, qualities, status and

achievements, with the associated badges);– Assessment (assessing the skills and determining

who should get a badge); and– Infrastructure (supporting the earning and

displaying of badges, moving badges around).

Mozilla OBI Metadata Example:Embedded in Badge Image

{ "recipient": "sha256$2ad891a61112bb953171416acc9cfe2484d59a45a3ed574a1ca93b47d07629fe", "salt": "hashbrowns", "evidence": "http://p2pu.org/badges/html5-basic/bimmy", "expires": "2013-06-01", "issued_on": "2011-06-01", "badge": { "version": "0.5.0", "name": "HTML5 Fundamental", "image": "http://p2pu.org/img/html5-basic.png", "description": "Knows the difference between a <section> and an <article>",

"criteria": "http://p2p/badges/html5-basic", "issuer": { "origin": "http://p2pu.org", "name": "P2PU", "org": "School of Webcraft", "contact": "admin@p2pu.org" } }}

https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges/wiki/Assertions

Non-Mozilla OBI compliant systems

• Khan Academy– https://github.com/Khan/khan-api

• Codeacademy– http://www.codecademy.com

• Foursquare– https://developer.foursquare.com/

• Stackoverflow – https://api.stackexchange.com/

• Codewall– http://coderwall.com/api

https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Prawsthorne/BadgeBatching

Harmonizing

Mozilla OBI Metadata ASN: Example #1

{ "recipient": "sha256$2ad891a61112bb953171416acc9cfe2484d59a45a3ed574a1ca93b47d07629fe", "salt": "hashbrowns", "issued_on": "2012-12-01", "badge": { "version": "0.5.0", "name": “Applying the Pythagorean Theorem #1", "image": "/img/pythagorean-apply.png", "description": "Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to determine unknown side lengths in right triangles in real-world and mathematical problems in two and three dimensions.", "criteria": "http://asn.jesandco.org/resources/S1143545", "issuer": { "origin": "http://example.org", "name": ”MathU", "org": "School of Many Things", "contact": "admin@example.org" } }}

#1

Mozilla OBI Metadata ASNExample #2

{ "recipient": "sha256$2ad891a61112bb953171416acc9cfe2484d59a45a3ed574a1ca93b47d07629fe", "salt": "hashbrowns", "issued_on": "2012-12-01", "badge": { "version": "0.5.0", "name": “Applying the Pythagorean Theorem #2", "image": "/img/pythagorean-apply.png", "description": "Derive the equation of a circle of given center and radius using the Pythagorean Theorem; complete the square to find the center and radius of a circle given by an equation.", "criteria": "http://asn.jesandco.org/resources/S11435DB", "issuer": { "origin": "http://example.org", "name": ”MathU", "org": "School of Many Things", "contact": "admin@example.org" } }}

#2

Exploring [Common] Relationships

• Journey (or linked) - a set of badges that represent an individual students learning journey.

• Clustered (or grouped) - badges can be clustered to represent a domain of knowledge or the complete mastery of a skill.

• Master-detail - a set of badges may be sub-badges to a master badge.

• Dynamic - some badges change or are updated through time.

http://criticaltechnology.blogspot.com/2012/10/linkages-to-other-badges.html

Badge-like Endorsements—LinkedIn

ASN take-aways…

• Focus on national semantic data infrastructure first—that Porsche 911 performs better on the Autobahn than on a dirt road

• Focus on where it’s headed—RDF and the Linked Data environment

• Focus on making silos ‘porous’• Focus on playing globally for the mobile learner

and sharing the wealth• Focus across the full competency ecosystem

QUESTIONS?

Diny Golder, JES & Co.dinyg@jesandco.org

Stuart A. Sutton, University of Washingtonsasutton@uw.edu