1.1. What are open badges? Open Badge Design Day NHS England Sharon Middleton, Makewaves Lucy Neale, DigitalMe

2. Over 70% of employers want employability skills to become a top education priority The CBI 3. qualifications are worthless as a criteria for hiring Google 2013 4. Aims for the Session: 1. Understand what Open Badges are and how they can promote wellbeing & signpost to services 2. Have a go at designing your own badge! 3. See how the badges will launch as part of the Department of Health project on Makewaves 5. NHS England & Badges Why? Use digital tools to increase engagement with young people Better support schools to promote wellbeing and signpost to services Measure impact and track progression through services / into careers 6. 1. What are open badges? 7. Mozilla Open Badges: a web standard which captures & communicates skills 8. http://openbadges.org 9. Silo 1 Silo 2 Silo 4 Formal qualifications After school club certificates Online learning Silo 3 Professional development 10. CC BY-SA Kyle Bowen 11. What makes Open Badges different? 1. Open &free skills communication standard 2. Anyone can create open badges 3. Data is owned byusers 12. Who is using Open Badges? 13. Some of the organisations involved in the ecosystem 14. 300,000 + badges issued 15. 2000 issuers 16. 1400% Growth since Nov 2012 17. 120 partners 18. About Open Badges - Employer & teacher perspective 19. Questions? 20. Badges in Action 21. A community of schools sharing their learning and creativity with Open Badges 22. safe social learning An international platform for young people to find exciting challenges, connect with others and build a digital record of their achievements through badges. 23. https://www.makewav.es/story/68518/title/bugbusting 24. 53,000 badges awarded to 26,000 students from 1,400 schools 25. Badge Library 26. https://www.makewav.es/story/641075/title/ukulelemissiontask2partsoftheukulele 27. Badge Club Students love to discover and earn badges and help each other One of the biggest impacts we have seen is the eagerness of children to get involved and try something new. Matt Rogers, Teacher 28. Sharon Middleton Director sharon.middleton@makewav.es 07908 403521 @SharonMakewaves 29. http://www.chicagosummeroflearning.org/ 30. Badge design process Download canvases at www.digitalme.co.uk/badgetheuk 31. Lunch! 32. Pitch! 33. Next Steps 34. What are you Excited about? Concerned about? Explore Further? 35. Yay! Youve earned a badge! 36. Thanks!