1. Demonstrate your skills. Broadcast your potential.

2. Open Badges through Acclaim
Jarin Schmidt, Product Lead
@jronius | @youracclaim

3. Today’s Who, What, Where…
• Who is Jarin?
• What are Open Badges + their applications?
• Where does Acclaim fit in?

4. Who…
Jarin Schmidt: The man, the myth, the legend (and terrible liar).

5. How did you end up in the credentialing industry?

6. Accidents happen.

8. A!
B!
C!
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11. “How’s INITECH?”

12. The Golden Years: Product Strategy

15. Help individuals assess and communicate
their proficiency.

16. Proficiency = Test

17. Test = Proficiency

19. What…
Open Badges: What are they and where did they come from.

22. “…promote openness, innovation, and opportunity on the
web.”

24. Trends
• Frequency
• Diversity
• Granularity
• Digital

25. An Open Standard to recognize
and verify learning.

27. Badges
• Scouting
• Military
• Gaming
• Social

28. Representations
• Achievements
• Authority
• Progress
• Feedback

29. = Representation of an achievement or outcome.

30. digital

31. standardized

32. verification

33. { !
"uid": "f2c20",!
"recipient": {!
"type": "email",!
"hashed": true,!
"salt": "deadsea",!
"identity":
"sha256$c7ef86405ba71b85acd8e2e95166c4b111448089f2e1599f42fe
1bba46e865c5"!
},!
"image": "https://example.org/beths-robot-badge.png",!
"evidence": "https://example.org/beths-robot-work.html",!
"issuedOn": 1359217910,!
"badge": "https://example.org/robotics-badge.json",!
"verify": {!
"type": "hosted",!
"url": "https://example.org/beths-robotics-badge.json"!
}!
}!

34. Metadata
• Name
• Description
• Issuer
• Criteria
• Evidence
• Tags
• Dates

35. Demonstrate or Acquire a Skill
Receive an Open Badge
Broadcast it on the Web
Get Rewarded

38. Changes everything & nothing.

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42. What…
Open Badges: What applications do they have.

43. { !
"uid": "f2c20",!
"recipient": {!
"type": "email",!
"hashed": true,!
"salt": "deadsea",!
"identity":
"sha256$c7ef86405ba71b85acd8e2e95166c4b111448089f2e1599f42fe
1bba46e865c5"!
},!
"image": "https://example.org/beths-robot-badge.png",!
"evidence": "https://example.org/beths-robot-work.html",!
"issuedOn": 1359217910,!
"badge": "https://example.org/robotics-badge.json",!
"verify": {!
"type": "hosted",!
"url": "https://example.org/beths-robotics-badge.json"!
}!
}!

45. Open Badges Simplified
What did they do?Who did it?
Who says they did it?

46. All Demographics
• K - 12
• Higher Ed
• Professional

50. Applications
• Feedback
• Skills / Knowledge
• Aptitude
• Experience

51. Micro vs. Macro

52. Hierarchies + Relationships

53. Engagement vs. Outcomes

54. Value Chain
• Issuer
• Criteria
• Evidence

55. Where…
Acclaim: Where Pearson fits in this ecosystem.

57. Learner Control

58. Data Science

59. Efficacy:
“A measurable impact on improving
someone’s life through learning.”

61. Get Individuals Better Jobs

62. Resume

63. Issue: Resume = SEO

64. “Good at completing annual goals…”

65. “Good at completing annual goals…”
(a datapoint from a real resume)

66. Employers can’t properly evaluate or trust
what gets presented to them, because it
lacks verification and context.

67. Avoid
• Gamification
• Low-end Credentials (spadges)

68. Acclaim’s Snowflake Moment
• Recognized Brands
• Marketable Skills
• Appropriate Granularity

69. Why Pearson?
Earners
Issuers
Consumers

70. “Don’t add a bullet point, get a badge.”
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Jarin Schmidt, Product Lead
@jronius | @youracclaim