Creating learning pathways with Open Badges
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Watch as learning specialist Bob Price shares his plans to use Open Badges to create a learning pathway that will underpin the knowledge required for the team at Newport City Homes. Open Badges is a new online standard to recognize and verify learning. In this presentation, you’ll find out how to: - Collect badges from multiple sources, online and off, into a single backpack - Display skills and achievements on many mediums - Encourage and motivate learners with badges
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Creating learning pathways with Open Badges
- 1. Creating Learning Pathways with Open Badges Bob Price HR & OD Systems Officer bob.price@newportcityhomes.com
- 2. Introduction
- 6. Recognition • Paper based • Easy to create • Easy to display • Difficult to verify
- 8. Digital badges: “ an online representation of a skill you’ve earned” Open Badges take the idea further: “skills are verified through a credible organisation”.
- 9. Open Badges • Led by Mozilla Organisation • Open, online standard for verifying skills, learning, interests and achievements • Images with Metadata hard-coded into them • Recognise formal or informal learning • Collect badges from multiple sources into a single backpack and share through social networks
- 12. Open Backpack Share to social networks and other websites Job Opportunities Lifelong Learning New Possibilities How it works….
- 13. CVs are a bunch of claims Open Badges are a bunch of evidence
- 16. Who is using them?
- 17. Who is using them?
- 18. Who is using them?
- 19. Who is using them?
- 21. Steps to take • Define clear criteria/definition of achievement to earn a badge • Be clear on what is to be achieved • Build the framework • Publicise!
- 22. Badging ecosystems Define your standards Validate Verify Authenticate Standards from in house, QCF, external bodies How do we validate the competencies that have been defined? Who ensure that the badging system is operating correctly within the organisation? Are the badges being displayed authentic and from the sources they say they are from?
- 23. Learning pathways using badging ecosystems Flat form badges are not dependant on each other
- 24. Dependent Key badges are dependant on other badges + =X Y Z Learning pathways using badging ecosystems
- 25. Levelled Graded badges with increasing difficulty Learning pathways using badging ecosystems
- 26. Meet the Academy
- 28. How we did it… • Badges awarded via Learn@NCH • Learn@NCH profiles linked to an Open Backpack • Recipients show off their achievements!
- 30. Badge to be issued for evidence Badging and NVQs Module Unit 201 – Diversity Unit 203 - Health and Safety E-learning modules to be completed to underpin knowledge Equality and Diversity Health and Safety Essentials Fire Safety Manual Handling
- 31. What else?
- 33. Open Badges www.openbadges.org Learning Pool www.learningpool.com Open Badges MOOC www.courseites.com Open Learn www.open.edu/openlearn/ Barclays Digital Driving Licence www.digitaldrivinglicence.barclays.co.uk City & Guild Tech Bac www.techbac.com/
Editor's Notes
- 10,000 residents Houses, flats, sheltered schemes, shared ownership and leaseholders Commercial properties, including Ringland and Bettws shopping centres
- Learning Pool subscribers for two years making use of the DLE Currently making use of our DLE for a variety of learning Modules have been developed to enable an extended range of opportunities and as a method immediate delivery Classroom Connect has added another facet to the system enabling self managed learning to extend to other areas.
- Not all digital badges are Open Badges. Some apps and websites issue badges but they are locked into their infrastructure. For example Scouts and social apps (Untappd, Four Square, etc).
- Mention Chicago City of Learning project, MOOCs
- Usage on social media is increasing, LinkedIn will allow badges on profiles
- Badges are stored in Backpacks, a cloud device which is can be linked to issuing servers.
- This is my backpack and exists of simple getting started badges, a LMS admin badge and a badge from a MOOC.
- These are a snapshot of some of the users in the UK. There are many other schools, colleges and organisations who are using badges for a variety of opportunities. Most of these exist outside of the QCF (which may be considered and advantage or a disadvantage).
- Open learn are using badges to recognise completion of some of their MOOCS. Mainly aimed at school leavers and students, there is a module on learning which I am currently completing
- Nine badges on topics surrounding digital literacy. Some are really hard, others not so. Quiz then learning.
- New innovation, a baccalaureate for 14 to 19 year olds. All with Open Badges.
- This form is used for individual recognition, eg: schools, one off events such as conferences etc Could also be used for CPD
- Used as part of MOOCs and other courses to build a system where steps are accredited towards a whole. Equivalent of gaining credits for taking part in modules.
- Cornell university currently using this model to build credits towards the final degree.
- How will we use these in Newport City Homes? Newport City Homes (NCH) is passionate about supporting sustainable communities, they have shown this commitment through their successful apprenticeship programme and the recent addition of the Academy. In 2012 NCH launched, The Academy. Its aims are to enhance the skills and employability of people and Newport City Homes residents in the local community. Reacting to the high unemployment rate and a lack of job in Newport, the Academy is an opportunity for those who are long term unemployed, lack work experience and/ or have barriers stopping them entering work. Since the Academy started, we have given 25 people the opportunity to become trainees and benefit from a placement at NCH. We have seen numerous success stories with the trainees developing their employability, gaining experience, confidence and motivation, and learning other skills in the workplace. NCH has also benefited from the trainees’ skills and qualities as they have worked alongside and supported our work. We are currently on our third cohort and we have seen people move onto full time roles within Newport City Homes and other organisations. Some trainees have also returned to us on a temporary basis to fill interim posts. As part of this programme we offer the cohort Essentials skills, BTEC Work skills and a range of compulsory H&S training. This is part of a staged programme of training throughout their six months. However not all of their learning is certified however and so we have developed a range of badges which will recognise these extra achievements. The plan is to trial these on the current group with a view to potentially rolling these out to future cohorts and possibly to the wider workforce.
- The pathway developed involved badging the academy through the stages of their time with us. The first badges was awarded on successful completion of their induction and outlines what they have learnt during their first few weeks with us. The essential training and safety training badges are then awarded as they completed their e-leaning and classroom modules. Subjects include welfare reform, social housing, fire safety and manula handling. Finally on successfully completing their six months with us they are awarded an alumni badge.
- Learning Pool DLE and Totara LMS have the ability of creating and issuing Open badges that can complete the desired criteria and manually or automatically issue the badge
- Future plans are under development to underpin the NVQ2 in Housing with e-learning modules. On completion of the modules badges are awarded which are then presented to the assessors. This accreditation of prior learning allows the modules to be completed more efficiently.