Open badges and Moodle - What and Why!

OPEN BADGES & MOODLE What Why Where When Why but mostly, badges are serious stuff!

Gavin Henrick

Learning Technology Services

http://www.lts.ie

Badges are

Content

•Why Badges?

•What are Badges?

•How do they work?

•Who is using them?

WHY BADGES?

Learning

Learning today happens everywhere.

But it’s often difficult to get recognition

for skills and achievements that happen

online or out of school.

Mozilla Open Badges

Mozilla Open Badges helps solve that

problem, making it easy for any

organization to issue, manage and

display digital badges across the web.

SOME RECENT RESEARCH

CITY UNIVERSITY LONDON A project on Open Badges in Higher Education Perception and Potential Dr. Ian Glover – Sheffield Hallam University

Farzana Latif – University of Sheffield

City University London Project

•Aim to identify perception and possible

value

•Semi-structured interviews with staff

•Focus groups with students

City University London Findings

•Students want to use badges to stand

out from peers

•Desire to link badges to requirements

of professional accreditation

• Important not to issue too many

• each badge must represent genuine

achievement

What were the common criticisms? How can you respond to them?

"Childish"

• plan and design them to be meaningful

"Hard to design without skills"

• simple, free tools available

"Lack of consistency in use"

• set a policy about the requirements for

a badge

Reference

http://altc2013.alt.ac.uk/sessions/open-badges-in-higher-education-perception-and-potential-323/documents/

http://shura.shu.ac.uk/7173/1/Glover_-_Investigating_perceptions_and_potential_of_open_badges_in_formal_higher_education_-_proceeding_112141.pdf

GLOVER, Ian and LATIF, Farzana (2013) Investigating perceptions and potential of open badges in formal higher education. In: Proceedings of World Conference on

Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2013. AACE,

Chesapeake, VA, 1398-1402. ISBN 9781939797032

WHAT ARE BADGES?

CV

I claim that

• I can …

• I learned

• I am able to

• I am competent in

• I took part in …

Badges

Badge is a digital proof that

• I can …

• I learned …

• I am able to …

• I am competent in …

• I took part in …

Badges

Visual representations of

•Achievements

•Skills

•Learning

• Interests

•Competencies

CC BY-SA Kyle Bowen

Open Badges

•Not proprietary – using free software

and open technical standard

•Help knit skills together

•Are full of information that can be

verified

•Are portable

•Can be earned from multiple sources

HOW THEY WORK

WHO IS USING THEM?

Who is using Badges

• Over 700 organisations

• Formal and informal educational institutions

• Multinational corporations

• Industry associations

• Non-profits

• Groups interested in Professional development

• 85,000 issued since launch in 2012.

LEARN.MOODLE.NET

http://edcetera.rafter.com/using-badges-to-quantify-learning-outcomes-at-uc-davis/

Jisc RSC Scotland Open Badges series

•Digital Practitioner Series

•Digital Innovator Series

•Digital Leadership

• http://www.rsc-

scotland.org/eassessment/2013/01/15/developing

-the-series-information-and-designs-for-the-jisc-

rsc-scotland-openbadges/

P2PU - https://p2pu.org

workforce.io

Border College

• http://www.rsc-scotland.org/?p=2454 http://www.bolt.ac.uk/

Border College – Student vote

ENOUGH ALREADY!

WE GOT IT.

BADGES ARE DIGITAL

PROOFS

WHAT NOW?

WE NEED A PLAN!

We need a plan!

•What to Badge?

•Who will issue Badges?

•Design the Badges

• Issuing platform

What to Badge

• What skills, achievements to

promote

• What criteria to use for each badge

• Break it down to a granular level

• Are there relationships between the

badges?

Who issues Badges

•Central Department

•Teachers

•Students

Platform options

Technical options

•Automated from completion of a course

/ task

•Manual from offline completion

•Manual from wider assessment

•Verification in 1 month, 1 year, 2 years?

Designing Badges

•Shapes

•Colours

•Themes

• Icons

•Pathways / Groups

•Branding

See - The Digitalme BadgeCanvas

Platform options

Technical options

•Automated from completion of a

course / task

•Manual from offline completion

•Manual from wider assessment

BADGE CANVAS -

DIGITALME http://www.digitalme.co.uk/badgecanvas/

Evidence

•What artefact will show the criteria has

been met

Skills + Knowledge

•What skills does the badge represent?

Behaviours

•What behaviours does the badge

encourage?

Criteria

•What do you need to do to earn the

badge?

•Does it expire?

Value Proposition

•Why bother earning the badge?

•What opportunities does it unlock?

•What benefits for:

• Earner

• Issuer

• Consumer

Endorsers

•Who supports and recognises your

badge?

Channels

•Where does a user find out about your

badge?

Awarded

•Who awards the badge and how?

Users

•Who is the badge for?

•Earner

• Issuer

•Consumer

Badge Pathways

•What other badges exist in your eco

system?

•Are there different levels?

Resources & Sustainability

•What resources are needed for the

badge to work?

• Technology?

• Expertise?

• Money?

Template

EXAMPLE

STUDENT VIEW

Block: My latest badges

Profile: My badges

TEACHER SIDE

Manage Badges

Add Badge

Badge Criteria

Selecting Criteria

Enabling a Badge

Enabled and Active

Badge Recipients

Contact

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