Open BadgesDr. Ian GloverTechnology Enhanced Learning [email protected]
What is a Badge?
Visual representation of achievement, experience, affiliation and/or interest - ideally distinctive and understood within a community.
Some examples:
What are 'Open Badges'?
Electronic (online) badges
Link to criteria and evidence for award
Have the credibility of the awarding body
Share 'badge clusters' from multiple sources with others on Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.
Provide security and verification can check whether a person was actually awarded a
specific badge
What's the use in HE?
Surface the learning 'hidden' in a transcript
Encourage students to undertake co- and extra-curricular activities Recognise informal learning
Motivate students to complete formative work
Enables students to differentiate themselves from classmates
How could YOU use them?
Think about Badges in your contextAre there skills that students use and develop?
Do you have extra-curricular activities to encourage?
Do you want to draw links between learning and skills demanded by employers/professional bodies?
Are there formative activities that you want students to complete?
Any ideas?
Places to earn/display Open Badges 'Educational' platforms introducing badges:
Moodle Blackboard Mahara PebblePad Wordpress Drupal
Central, common 'backpack' (https://backpack.openbadges.org)
Getting started Image creation
OpenBadges.me (http://openbadges.me) Online Badge Maker (
http://www.onlinebadgemaker.com/)
Badge creation and issuing badg.us (http://badg.us)
All-in-one systems Credly (http://credly.com) Mozilla BadgeKit (http://badgekit.openbadges.org/) -
April 2014
Claim a Reward for Contributing
Go to http://badg.us and enter claim code '7aunyp'
or, Scan:
(You'll need a Mozilla Backpack, though)
