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Creating learning pathways with Open Badges
What are Open Badges?
Creating learning pathways with Open Badges
Recognition
• Paper based• Easy to create• Easy to display• Difficult to verify
Creating learning pathways with Open Badges
Badges…Visual representations Skills
Learning
Competencies
Qualities
Achievements
Interests
Creating learning pathways with Open Badges
Digital badges: •An online reputation of a skill you have earned.
•Usually tied to specific applications or websites
•Not portable
Creating learning pathways with Open Badges
Open Badges
Led by Mozilla OrganisationOpen, online standard for verifying skills, learning, interests and achievementsImages with Metadata hard-coded into themRecognise formal or informal learningCollect badges from multiple sourcesinto a single backpack and share through social networks
Creating learning pathways with Open Badges
Badge nameDescription
CriteriaIssuer
EvidenceDate issued
StandardsTags
At its heart an Open Badge is a graphic file which has an embedded a chunk of code. This code gives the badges its credentials and includes:
The heartbeat of a badge
Creating learning pathways with Open Badges
How it works….
Training
Online Learning
Volunteer Programs
Learner
Creating learning pathways with Open Badges
How it works….
Open Backpack
Share to social networks and other websites
Job Opportunitie
s Lifelong Learning
New Possibilities
Creating learning pathways with Open Badges
CVs are a bunch of claims
Open Badges are a
bunch of evidence
Creating learning pathways with Open Badges
Creating learning pathways with Open Badges
Who is using them?
Creating learning pathways with Open Badges
Who is using them?
Creating learning pathways with Open Badges
Who is using them?
Creating learning pathways with Open Badges
Who is using them?
Creating learning pathways with Open Badges
Learning Pathways and Badges
Creating learning pathways with Open Badges
Steps to take
• Define clear criteria/definition of achievement to earn a badge
• Be clear on what is to be achieved• Build the framework• Publicise!
Creating learning pathways with Open Badges
Badging ecosystems
Define your standards
Validate
Verify
Authenticate
Standards from in house, QCF, external bodies
How do we validate the competencies that have been defined?
Who ensure that the badging system is operating correctly within the organisation?
Are the badges being displayed authentic and from the sources they say they are from?
Creating learning pathways with Open Badges
Learning pathways using badging ecosystems
Flat form badges are not dependant on each other
Creating learning pathways with Open Badges
DependentKey badges are dependant on other badges
+ =X Y Z
Learning pathways using badging ecosystems
Creating learning pathways with Open Badges
LevelledGraded badges with increasing difficulty
Learning pathways using badging ecosystems
Creating learning pathways with Open Badges
What else?
Creating learning pathways with Open Badges
Open Badgeswww.openbadges.org
Open Badges MOOCwww.courseites.com
Open Learnwww.open.edu/openlearn/
Barclays Digital Driving Licencewww.digitaldrivinglicence.barclays.co.uk
City & Guild Tech Bacwww.techbac.com/
Creating learning pathways with Open Badges
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