Doug Belshaw's presentation from the Computing At School Scotland conference 2012 Doug Belshaw is Badges and Skills Lead for the non-profit Mozilla Foundation. In this role he evangelises Open Badges, a new way to recognise skills and achievements, as well as heading-up work around Web Literacies. Prior to Mozilla Doug worked at JISC infoNet and is a former teacher and Senior Leader in UK schools. Doug also recently completed his doctoral studies on the subject of digital literacies through Durham University.

1. Open Badges
and Learning
Doug Belshaw
CAS conference, 27 October 2012 / @dajbelshaw / doug@mozillafoundation.org

2. Today’s webinar
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. Doug
Belshaw, Badges and Skills Lead at the Mozilla
Foundation, talks about Open Badges and their
potential in education.

3. Today’s webinar
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. Doug
Belshaw, Badges and Skills Lead at the Mozilla
Foundation, talks about Open Badges and their
potential in education.

4. Today’s webinar
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. Doug
Belshaw, Badges and Skills Lead at the Mozilla
Foundation, talks about Open Badges and their
potential in education.

5. Today’s webinar
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. Doug
Belshaw, Badges and Skills Lead at the Mozilla
Foundation, talks about Open Badges and their
potential in education.

6. Who are you?
Dr. Doug Belshaw
Badges & Skills Lead
Mozilla Foundation
@dajbelshaw
doug@mozillafoundation.org

7. Mozilla!
(global non-profit)

8. The Problem

9. Silo 2
Silo 1
Silo 3

10. Letter of
recommendation
Silo 2
Silo 1 PhD
Professional
qualification
Silo 3

11. Letter of
recommendation
Silo 2
Silo 1 PhD
Professional
What skills/ qualification
attributes are
Silo 3
missing here?
(and can we present
them in a holistic way?)

12. Towards a
Solution?

13. MozFest 2010
http://mozillafestival.org

14. ( )
http://mozillafestival.org
9-11 November, London

15. What if we used
badges for learning?

16. Not just digital badges but
Open Badges

17. Open Badges are images with
metadata hard-coded into them

18. Visual representations of
achievements, learning, skills,
interests, competencies

19. Open Badges can complement
traditional
education practices

20. They can accommodate
formal & informal
learning pathways

21. They can represent hard & soft
skills, peer assessment, and
stackable lifelong learning

23. Open Badges can capture
learning wherever & however it
occurs—allowing for innovation

24. Stealth
Assessment

25. Open Badges?
(What about degrees, certificates, diplomas?)

26. Not simply either/or
—both/and!

28. How do we get there?

29. Through a shared badge
ecosystem & infrastructure:
a universal standard.

30. Open
Badge
Infrastructure
(OBI)

31. BADGE DISPLAY SITES
SUCCESS

32. after-school program free online course government agency

34. DISPLAY SITES
personal web site job sites
social networking WordPress / Tumblr
profiles

35. RESULTS
jobs new unlock
learning opportunities

36. Endorsers
Issuers
Earners
Displayers

37. Who’s involved?

39. BADGE DISPLAY SITES
SUCCESS

40. http://openbadges.org

41. Any questions for me yet?

56. The future.

57. Ask me hard questions!
Now!
On Twitter: @dajbelshaw
Via email: doug@mozillafoundation.org
Useful links:
http://openbadges.org
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges
https://groups.google.com/d/forum/openbadges

58. Special secret bonus material...
http://mzl.la/weblit

59. EXPLORING CREATING CONNECTING PROTECTING
BEGINNER
Browser basics HTML basics Participation Privacy
(e.g. URLs, copy/ (e.g. adding images, (e.g. etiquette, (e.g. cookies, privacy
paste) linking) curation) controls)
Search engine
CSS basics Collaboration Security basics
basics (e.g. fonts, (e.g. co-creation, (e.g. HTTPS, password
(e.g. keyword search, positioning) wikis) management)
filtering)
Web design
Web mechanics basics Sharing Rights online
(e.g. view source, (e.g. affordances of (e.g. social networks, (e.g. copyright, open
hyperlinks) the web, designing for embedding) licensing)
audiences)

60. EXPLORING CREATING CONNECTING PROTECTING
INTERMEDIATE
Contributing to
Browser skills Javascript basics Identity
(e.g. cookie (e.g. programming web communities (e.g. personal
management, basics, javascript (e.g. distributed information curation,
add-ons) syntax) working, collaborative tracking management)
curation)
Credibility Advanced web Security &
(e.g. trustworthiness Storytelling
of websites, design (e.g. multimedia, encryption
evaluating (e.g. responsive augmentation) (e.g. data protection,
information) design, accessibility) basic encryption)
Legalese on
Remixing Infrastructure Open practices the web
(e.g. mashups, (e.g. hosting, (e.g. open standards, (e.g. privacy policies,
hackable games) domains) open source) terms of service
agreements)