12. 12
IMS Digital Credentialing
Initiative
• Establish Digital Badges as
common currency for K-20
and corporate education
• Partnership with Mozilla
• Further adoption,
integration and
transferability
• Extend digital transcripts
and competency-based
education interoperability
From Flickr, William Warby, Pound Coins CC By 2.0
13. Endorsement:
A method of publishing
approval or acceptance of
Open Badges using an
extension to the Open
Badges specification itself.
For further information on the Open Badges endorsement features, see Nate Otto’s
slides at: http://bit.ly/obendorse
14. Open Badge: A statement
of trust in an individual.
Open Badge Endorsement:
A statement of trust in an
Open Badge or issuer.
15. Assertion:
“Margaret has earned the Digital
Practitioner badge”
Endorsement Assertion:
“The Digital Practitioner badge
evidences teaching and learning
excellence and can be used
towards Higher Education
Academy accreditation”
(By Higher Education Academy)
Possibilities…
A statement of
trust in an Open
Badge or issuer.
You can better
trust a badge if
you trust its
endorsers.
16. Assertion:
“Margaret has earned the Digital
Practitioner badge”
BadgeClass:
“Digital Practitioner Badge by
University of Dunedin”
Issuer:
“University of Dunedin”
Endorsement Assertion:
“Margaret keeps up to date with
learning technology developments
and deserves the Digital
Practitioner badge”
Endorsement BadgeClass:
“The University of Dunedin’s Digital
Practitioner badge is backed by
quality assessments”
Endorser:
“The University of Dunedin issue
high quality badges”
What can be endorsed?
17. Annotation is a partner extension to
endorsement that lets 3rd parties
contribute to badge object meaning.
“The Achiever Badge aligns
to Educational Standard X”
Annotation:
21. University of Sussex - badges to recognise staff CPD
Some current Open Badge projects in UK
Higher Education
Edinburgh University Students Association - badges to
recognise skills gained by Class Reps and enhance
employability
Abertay University - badges to showcase HEAR related
activities
University of Dundee - badges to recognise skills gained
by students while co-creating the medical curriculum
University of Sheffield - badges issued during a MOOC by the
radiology dept. Those applying for a degree can use their
badges for a reduction in fees and as credit towards modules
30. 30
Brian B. Senior Engineer at Mozilla
Brian loves words, whether those
words make up hundreds of lines
of code or the sentences of a
novel. His job at Mozilla involves a
combination of both, since he
codes and writes specifications for
others who want to use the tools
he builds. Words aside, he loves
playing games, chopping wood(!)
and cooking. Did we mention he
rocks a bass (and a wicked
hairstyle) in more than one band?
Senior Engineer /
OBI Architect
32. Employer pathway
trees
• Pathways for particular jobs
• Clear statement about the
employer’s needs
• Highlight skills and
attributes required
• Templates showcase
employer issued badges
• Placeholders for formal
qualifications or badges
linked to open learning
opportunities, eg Mozilla
Web Literacy badges
33. 33
Earner /
employee…
• Fills in pathways with
badges
• Tell their story
• Set goals (unearned
badges)
• Plan a career
• Copy pathways to explore
options
34. Matt B. Senior QA Engineer at
Mozilla
Matt likes breaking things and
then putting them back together
to improve them. His job as a QA
engineer in the Firefox team
involves everything from finding
things that don't work -
otherwise know as bugs - to
coordinating projects within the
open source community, such as
new feature requests. His path is
full of different jobs and
adventures from rock-climbing
to making tofu and being a
psychologist at a youth detention
center.
Senior Quality
Assurance Engineer
40. ● Recognize the skills you need
● Incentivise and engage people
● Connect and grow your network
Organisations
● Evidence all your achievements
● Build and expand your capabilities
● Connect with opportunities
Individuals
Connecting
42. The OBA will launch with an innovative
app so you can earn, issue and share
badges on the move
43. Launch your academy and create badges
Create your badges Learners find your badgeLaunch academy
Award badges Learners add evidenceGrow and track your
network of talent
44. OBA launches with TechFuture
Academy
“Employers will be able to set industry relevant challenges and
badge the recognised skills to further employability skills, with
employer reference on the badge showing the company support.
This will enable young people to develop their employability skills
recognised by employers”,
Julie Feest, Head of Strategic Partnerships | On Behalf of the Tech
Partnership
*TechFuture Academy is a collaboration amongst Tech Partnership
members
(formerly e-skills) with support from Telefonica
