...past, present and future
Dr. Doug Belshaw / Mozilla Foundation / SETT / April 2013
http://slidesha.re/11fWwIO
Rationale:
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 helps solve that problem, making it easy for any organization to issue, manage and display digital badges across the web.
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 helps solve that problem, making it easy for any organization to issue, manage and display digital badges across the web.
Rationale:
Who are you?
Dr. Doug BelshawBadges & Skills LeadMozilla Foundation
Mozilla!(global non-profit)
1. Introduction2. The problem3. Towards a solution4. Who’s using Open Badges?5. What’s next for Open Badges?
Overview
The Problem
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DegreeCertificate
Otherqualification
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What skills/attributes are missing here?
(can we present themin a holistic way?)
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DegreeCertificate
Otherqualification
Towards a Solution
What if we used badges to credential learning?
Not just digital badges but Open Badges
Open Badges are images with metadata hard-coded into them
CC BY-SA Kyle Bowen
Visual representations ofachievements, learning, skills,
interests, competencies
Open Badges can augmenttraditional education practices
They can accommodateformal & informallearning pathways
They can represent hard & softskills, peer assessment, and stackable lifelong learning
Open Badges can capture learning wherever & however itoccurs—allowing for innovation
CC BY-SA Kyle Bowen
Open Badges?(What about degrees, certificates, diplomas?)
Not simply either/or—both/and!
workforce.io
How do we get there?
Through a shared badge ecosystem & infrastructure:
a universal standard.
OpenBadgesInfrastructure(OBI)
Who’s usingOpen Badges?
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Issuers
http://cloudworks.ac.uk/badge/badge_list
http://www.rsc-scotland.org/eassessment/
http://www.digitalme.co.uk/student-digital-leaders-badgeathon/
http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/badges-projects.php?id=2246
http://www.kenteq.nl/smartsite.net?id=KT_HOME_EN
http://www.ymcanyc.org/association/pages/y-mvp
http://buzzmath.com
http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/badges-projects.php?id=3213
http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/dln/special/DigitalBadges.html
http://www.proexam.org/index.php/technology/digital-micro-credentials
http://www.digitalme.co.uk/student-digital-leaders-badgeathon/
What’s next forOpen Badges?
Open Badges at v1.0 as of March 2013
Federationof Badge Backpacks
Endorsement
COPPA compliance
New, open learning standard for
Web Literacy
Conclusion
Conclusion
• Open Badges = metadata-infused credentials
• We’re now at v1.0 of the OBI
• Lots of organisations are already using badges
• You can get started right now!
Questions?@dajbelshaw / [email protected]