Presentation to the International Review Panel given in Dublin on 1st March 2016. Projected funded by Ireland's National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning

1. Enabling & Empowering Staff & Students to Flourish
in the Digital Age

2. Developing a national Digital
Skills Framework for Irish HE
Producing and Developing
Training Resources
Piloting Open Badges in HE
Facilitating Events,
campaigns, workshops,
partnerships
Iain Mac Labhrainn, Blaneth McSharry
Gobnait O’Riordan, Aoife Geraghty, Liz Dore
Áine Galvin, Leone Gately, Jonathan Flynn
Anne O’Keeffe, Deirdre Ryan
Gráinne McGrath, Michelle Tooher, David Moloney

3. CC-BY-2.0, flickr, Nikos Koutoulas
Digital Skills Framework

4. Conferences
Workshops
Seminars/Webinars
Liaison meetings
Cluster projects
TEL weeks
Phase 2 project links
International contacts
Newsletter/twitter-feed
IMHE ‘Higher Education Futures’,
Singapore, October 2015
Ministerial Meeting ‘Digital Economy:
Innovation, Growth & Social Prosperity’
Mexico, June 2016
Impact,
collaboration,
dissemination

5. Navigating the
Digital Skills
Framework
CC-BY-2.0, flickr, Hans Dinkelberg

6. CC-BY-2.0, flickr, Rachel Samanyi
Badges

7. Badge Examples
Outreach, Volunteering &
Communications
Non-formal & Informal CPD
Skills Development embedded in
courses
Study Skills
Employability & Leadership
Graduate Attributes

8. Criteria, issuing
Open Badge Factory
+ Institutional VLEs
Policy & Guidelines

9. Capturing badges, storing CVs,
linking to publications and
allowing re-export to other
platforms (eg LinkedIn),
embedding in websites, etc.
Compliance with OBI
Open Badge Passport
‘Hallmarks’
(Using Digital Badge
system)
Intermediate,
component
achievements
Alternatives
(bespoke)
Personal Profiles

10. Student Partnership
CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0, flickr, Mariusz Kluzniak

11. Recruitment, selection, training and awards
◦ Working with students
◦ Working with staff/services
◦ Creating Content
Workshops
◦ Digital Identity & Wellbeing
◦ Social Media
◦ Content Creation:
◦ Infographics, Blogging, Podcasts

12. DIGITAL CHAMPIONS
Develop and showcase your digital skills
http://www.digichampsnuig.com/

13. Meanwhile, in Limerick….

14. CC-BY-2.0, flickr, Greg Neate
Content, Technologies & Processes

15. Content development
Workflow
◦ Curator for each line
◦ Creative workshops
◦ ‘Open Curriculum’
◦ Lesson ‘descriptor’
◦ LOs, Learner Activities, Media/Content, Assessment,
Badge Criteria
◦ Style Guide/Template
◦ Packaged (SCORM/Tin Can)
◦ Review & Revise
◦ Batch release

16. Technologies
WP based website (HEAnet hosted)
◦ Self-assessment tool
◦ Page per ‘station’
◦ Online lessons, resource packs, introductory video, posters, links and
Badge Criteria
◦ Metro ‘Travelcards’
◦ Resource packs for T&L and LT units/colleagues
◦ Devolved badge issuing rights (criteria/rubric)
◦ Downloadable in SCORM/Tin Can API/zip packages
◦ LearnDash/Grassblade (LRS) for individual study
Open Badge Factory for issuing/tracking
◦ Integrates with WP, Bb, Moodle, etc
◦ Conforms to open standards, link with Open Badge Passport
Content Authoring
◦ ‘Open Curriculum’ approach
◦ Prioritisation/development sequence via survey/consultation
◦ Articulate Storyline for core materials - Evaluation of Adapt
◦ Style Guide and learner activity models
◦ Repurposing/remixing

17. Next Steps
Focus on content/lessons development & production
◦ Toolkit for Design and Authoring of shareable lessons/materials
◦ Creative workshops
◦ Hosting and distribution
◦ Release cycle (travelcard batches)
◦ Self-assessment tool
Evaluate student-partnership models
◦ Toolkit for any institution to implement, bundled with reusable
resources
◦ Network internationally
Continue badge pilots
◦ including Graduate Attributes mapping
◦ CPD for staff
◦ Internal vs external badging
◦ Toolkit for Badge implementation in any institution/course
Partnership with other projects/organisations
◦ Focus on capacity building & sustainability
◦ Liaison across sectors and internationally
Staffing at full FTE
Liaison with other developers
Integrated approach
Targeted dissemination