Presentation from the SiS Catalyst and EUCU.NET Technucation conferernce at the University of Porto, 28th November to 1st December 2013. Workshop E - The Technology.

1. 29-30 November 2012 / @dajbelshaw / doug@mozillafoundation.org
Open Badges:
an overview
Dr. Doug Belshaw
Mozilla Foundation

2. Today’s workshop
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.

3. Today’s workshop
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.

4. Today’s workshop
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 organisation to issue,
manage and display digital badges
across the web.

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

6. Mozilla!
(global non-profit)

7. The Problem

8. Silo 2
Silo 1
Silo 3

9. LinkedIn
recommendation
Silo 2
Silo 1 PhD
PRINCE2
qualification
Silo 3

10. LinkedIn
recommendation
Silo 2
Silo 1 PhD
PRINCE2
What skills/ qualification
attributes are
Silo 3
missing here?
(and can we present
them in a holistic way?)

11. Towards a
Solution?

12. MozFest 2010
http://mozillafestival.org

13. What if we used
badges for learning?

14. Not just digital badges but
Open Badges

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

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

17. Open Badges can complement
traditional
education practices

18. They can accommodate
formal & informal
learning pathways

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

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

23. Stealth
Assessment

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

25. Not simply either/or
—both/and!

27. How do we get there?

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

29. Open
Badge
Infrastructure
(OBI)

30. BADGE DISPLAY SITES
SUCCESS

31. after-school program free online course government agency

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

34. RESULTS
jobs new unlock
learning opportunities

35. Endorsers
Issuers
Earners
Displayers

36. Who’s involved?

38. BADGE DISPLAY SITES
SUCCESS

39. http://openbadges.org

40. Any questions for me yet?

41. Doug’s badge backpack

44. 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