The web has delivered innovation in many spheres of our on and offline lives. In the area of accreditation, however, there been little innovation or disruption. Open Badges are a new, secure way to recognise a broad range of lifelong learning skills. In this workshop Tim Riches from DigitalMe will provide an overview of Open Badges and an introduction to designing open badges to recognise informal learning.

1. Mozilla'Open'Badges'–''
The$future$of$informal$accredita1on?'
Presenter:$Tim$Riches$
@triches$#openbadges$
Tim.riches@digitalme.co.uk$
Innovating Learning
4 Dec 2012

2. What are Open Badges?
http://buff.ly/RwCae9 !

3. Overview
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. What if we used
badges for learning?

5. Not just digital badges
but
Open Badges

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

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

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

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

10. How do we get there?

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

12. BADGE DISPLAY SITES !
SUCCESS!

13. after-school program! free online course! government agency!

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

16. RESULTS!
jobs! new " unlock
learning! opportunities!

18. Who’s involved?

19. http://openbadges.org

20. The future.

21. Designing'Open'Badges'
(Workshop)'

22. DigitalMe'Open'Badge'Project:'

23. S2R:$UK’s$youth$sports$repor1ng$channel$

24. S2R changes young people’s lives through sports reporting.
Encourages aspiration, teamwork, resilience and creativity. Gives
reporters a legacy of life and job skills, confidence, motivation,
friends and fun!!

25. Ac>vi>es…'
Local'repor>ng…''
Reporters have interviewed hundreds of interesting people and !
created over 10,000 reports and blogs!

26. Challenging'na>onal'events..'

27. www.makewav.es/s2r$

28. Overview'
Young$people$can$obtain$S2R$‘Medals’$in$
3$sets:$
Journalist,'Producer'&'Coach''
En$route$to$gaining$Medals$students$will$
gather$‘Achievements’$for$their$
contribu1on$to$the$S2R$community$

29. Community'
Achievements'
Not$pushed$out$to$Open$
Badge$Infrastructure$and$
main$value$is$within$
community$
Granular$markers$of$
ac1vity$

30. Medals'
Qualita1ve$assessment$of$
skills$by$peers/leaders$
3$sets$Journalist,'Coach'&$
Producer'
3$levels$in$each$set:$Bronze,'
Silver'&'Gold'
@triches$

31. Unlocking'value'for'the'learner'through'
badge'display$
• $Employment$
• $Differen1a1on$
• $Social$status$
@triches$

32. “Education is
what survives
when what has
been learnt has
been
forgotten”!
B.F. Skinner
www.digitalme.co.uk!
tim.riches@digitalme.co.uk!
@triches !