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Open Badges – creating
new skills currency
1. What are open badges?
Mozilla Open Badges: a web standard which captures & communicates skills
Silo 1 Silo 2
Silo 4
Formal qualifications
After schoolclub certificates
Onlinelearning
Silo 3
Professional development
How do they work?
Mozilla’s Open Badge Infrastructure
Badge Displayers
What makes Open Badges different?1. Open & free skills
communication standard2. Anyone can create open
badges3. Data is owned by users
Who is using Open Badges?
Some of the organisationsinvolved in the
ecosystem
300,000 + badges issued
2000 issuers
52,395 Backpacks
1400% Growth since Nov 2012
120 partners
2. Badges in Action
School Badges
Makewaves is the leading safe social learning platform
Whether posting photos via the App, submitting a video competition entry to the WWF Channel, or live blogging from the Olympics, Makewaves provides a fun, easy to use way to engage learners worldwide.
School Platform Partner Makewaves
New Badge Library
makewav.es/badgelibrary
New Badge Mission Builder
Build a community
around badges
Students display their badges
Competition WinnerOnly UK Badge platform
50,000 badges awarded since Jan 2013
23,000 students have earned a badge from over 1000 schools
Industry Badges
Tech Badges Launched at BETT 14
Capture learning at events &
workshops
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9LumZi0Gps
Badges connect industry into schools
Badge Ecosystems
http://www.chicagosummeroflearning.org/
City-wide learning pathways
Nationally recognised
roles - Digital Leaders
3. Badges & Value
“Badges have added value to teaching and learning at Roscoe Primary School by motivating and engaging our pupils…it has inspired pupils to try new things in order to be awarded a badge”Headteacher, Roscoe Primary School
“I like badges – they are symbols of something you have done and are proud of.”Pupil
#6 Findability
3. Free Tools to get started…
Badge image designer
www.makebadg.es
Badge The UK
Help us
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