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Credly/John Walber - Building a Digital Badge System for COTE (Workshop)
The document discusses the concept of digital badges and credentials as a new form of professional currency, aimed at making achievements and skills more visible and useful to individuals and organizations. It highlights the benefits of digital badges over traditional forms of recognition, such as portability, verification, and the ability to be owned by the recipient. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of new assessment methods and the potential for digital badges to enhance personal and organizational branding.
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- 1. © 2015 Credly, LLC 1 Digital Badges & Credentials John Walber Credly info@credly.com Ÿ @credly Making Achievements Visible: The New Professional Currency This is not about badges.
- 2. © 2015 Credly, LLC 2 • Helping to make achievements and credentials more visible and more useful • Empowering people with a form of professional capital that can improve their lives • Strengthening the relationship between your organization and those you serve What it IS about:
- 3. © 2015 Credly, LLC 3 • Skills people demonstrate • Choices they make • Communities in which they engage Badges verify & tell the story of: Badges also help organizations acknowledge and share what they value in the world.
- 4. © 2015 Credly, LLC 4 © 2013 Credly, LLC © 2012 Credly, LLC Digital vs. embroidered badges © 2013 Credly, LLC © 2012 Credly, LLC Digital Badges vs. Embroidered Badges • Don’t need to fit on a sash! • Can be seen whether you are physically present or not! • Pretty image + data! • Evidence travels with them! • Earned from lifelong interactions! • Multiple sources, side-by-side! • Can be awarded dynamically when criteria are met!
- 5. © 2015 Credly, LLC 5 Adapted from http://classhack.com/post/45364649211/open- badge-anatomy-updated by Kyle Bowen, Class Hack 1. A metadata standard 2. A “packaging” standard Other systems like this? What other systems for sending and receiving digital things work like this?!
- 6. © 2015 Credly, LLC 6 Email © 2013 Credly, LLC © 2012 Credly, LLC Email Email Clients © 2013 Credly, LLC © 2012 Credly, LLC
- 7. © 2015 Credly, LLC 7 Badge Clients © 2013 Credly, LLC © 2012 Credly, LLC It’s like a Receipt: AsserGons “Assertion” Verifies Badge’s Validity The earner’s badge is “baked” with the data about your achievement, including a link back to a “receipt” or “assertion” from the issuer or a trusted party. The badge issuer or a trusted party maintains the “assertion” in perpetuity, acting as proof that the data in the badge matches the issuer’s original data.
- 8. © 2015 Credly, LLC 8 © 2013 Credly, LLC © 2012 Credly, LLC Now we know what makes “Open Badges” • Portable! • Owned by the recipient! • Machine-readable! • Validated by the issuer! • Verifiable by observers! • Standardized technical format!
- 9. © 2015 Credly, LLC 9 An industry association verifies skills demonstrated outside the office. Where’s the credit? Source: Flickr @marcthiele (Marc Thiele) A training program certifies hard and soft skills needed to succeed. Source: Flickr @24289877 (Hazel Owen)
- 10. © 2015 Credly, LLC 10 A customer gets certified by a company for use of their products. Where’s the credit?
- 11. © 2015 Credly, LLC 11 Workshop participants demonstrate entrepreneurship and innovation. Where’s the credit? Instructors or peers witness evidence of discrete, marketable skills within a class.
- 12. © 2015 Credly, LLC 12 Someone participates in an activity led by experts at a cultural institution. Where’s the credit? A visitor at the Dallas Museum of Art joins the DMA Friends program.
- 13. © 2015 Credly, LLC 13 Someone completes a MOOC, a leadership program, or a web design bootcamp.
- 14. © 2015 Credly, LLC 14 A job-seeking veteran wants to present her or his military training as skills employers need. Earners of badges own their achievements.
- 15. © 2015 Credly, LLC 15 Each person decides what they want to share. Think of each line on a résumé as verified by its source and independently sharable.
- 16. © 2015 Credly, LLC 16 Nothing has to change, but … While we are re-inventing the form recognition takes …! … why not think differently about assessment, too?! Embedded and Authentic Assessments
- 17. © 2015 Credly, LLC 17 Embedded and Authentic Assessments § Participation / presence / check-in! § Membership / interest group! § Geolocation-based! § Role-based! § External data source(s) correlation! § Group Badges through Individual Work! § Organizational Badges! § Given / Discretionary ! § Previously assessed / Retroactive badges! § Expert review! § Peer review! § Self review! § Self-Claimed with Evidence! § Evidence submission or confirmation ! § Triggers! § Meta-triggers! § Test, quiz or assessment ! Transforming Achievement Data into Credentials Training Manager Certificate SIIA Education Division Board Member MoMA Certified: Art Academy Successful completion of the Training Manager Certificate Program offered by Training Magazine Member of the Education Division Board of the SIIA Certification for completing The Museum of Modern Art Art Academy Online Course, November 2013.
- 18. © 2015 Credly, LLC 18 Earning Digital Badges based on real time, contextual activities Embedded Earning and Display
- 19. © 2015 Credly, LLC 19 Competency-Based Education Source: http://www.ecampusnews.com/top-news/students-digital-badges-632/ Building a Digital Badge System for Open SUNY COTE John Walber Credly info@credly.com Ÿ @credly Making Achievements Visible: The New Professional Currency
- 20. © 2015 Credly, LLC 20 Digital Credential Lifecycle Management
- 21. © 2015 Credly, LLC 21 Life of a Badge Idea ConstellaGon Build Currency A good place for badges in our organizaGon would be ….. A good idea for a badge in our organizaGon would be ….
- 22. © 2015 Credly, LLC 22 Name your badge. What does your badge represent? Membership, ParGcipaGon, Progress, Skill/Competency? Will this badge require assessment and if so, how and by whom? What does someone need to do to earn this badge? Give a one sentence or phrase descripGon. If someone earns this badge, what opportuniGes might it open for them? If someone earns this badge, how will it reflect back on your organizaGon? Motivation # Badges should serve as a “stamp of approval” for behaviors and progress towards goals that are intrinsically motivating
- 23. © 2015 Credly, LLC 23 A good place for badges in our organizaGon would be ….. A good place for badges in our organizaGon would be ….. A constellaGon …. § Provides the overall picture of a badge system § Gives a sense of scale § Connects the parts of your badging system
- 24. © 2015 Credly, LLC 24 Badge versus badge system
- 25. © 2015 Credly, LLC 25
- 26. © 2015 Credly, LLC 26
- 27. © 2015 Credly, LLC 27 Explorer Interested Open SUNY Fellow Trailblazer Interested N2OL Open SUNY Fellow Champion Experienced Online PracGGoner Open SUNY Fellow Mentor Exemplar Coach & Mentor Open SUNY Fellow Master Expert Online InstrucGonal Designer Explorer Trailblazer Membership: Interested Professional Development Commitment Commitment Professional Development Membership: Interested N2OL Community Engagement Open SUNY COTE PD Badge ConstellaGons
- 28. © 2015 Credly, LLC 28 Mentor Commitment Professional Development Membership: Exemplar Coach & Mentor Community Engagement Champion Commitment Professional Development Membership: Experienced Online PracGGoner Community Engagement Master Commitment Professional Development Membership: Expert ID Community Engagement
- 29. © 2015 Credly, LLC 29 Open SUNY COTE Summit Community Engagement Badges Social Media Open SUNY COTE Summit Community Engagement Badges Summit 2015
- 30. © 2015 Credly, LLC 30 Open SUNY COTE Summit Community Engagement Badges Summit CommemoraGve What does community engagement look like? • What do you currently do that you’d like to have acknowledged? • What should/could someone do to demonstrate engagement? • How can COTE support you?
- 31. © 2015 Credly, LLC 31 Gold Star Gold Seal! Assessment What needs to be assessed? § By whom? Reviewed or automaGc? § Evidence? § Back to purpose: parGcipaGon, membership or skill/development? § Does assessment add value to the currency?
- 32. © 2015 Credly, LLC 32 The look -‐ visuals § Concepts: iconography § The Noun Project § Color-‐coding § Size and shape § Do you need words?
- 33. © 2015 Credly, LLC 33 Metadata ü Describes the significance, effort, and “weight” of the accomplishment ü IdenGfies the issuer ü Provides a Gmestamp ü May link to evidence ü Personalized to the recipient
- 34. © 2015 Credly, LLC 34 Earners of badges own their achievements.
- 35. © 2015 Credly, LLC 35 What do people see?
- 36. © 2015 Credly, LLC 36 Social Networks
- 37. © 2015 Credly, LLC 37
- 38. © 2015 Credly, LLC 38
- 39. © 2015 Credly, LLC 39 Using verified achievements to tell our story and be discovered for new opportunities Adding Verified Badges to Portfolios
- 40. © 2015 Credly, LLC 40 Adding Verified Badges to Portfolios Adding Verified Badges to Portfolios
- 41. © 2015 Credly, LLC 41
- 42. © 2015 Credly, LLC 42 Building a Digital Badge System for Open SUNY COTE John Walber Credly info@credly.com Ÿ @credly Making Achievements Visible: The New Professional Currency