GBIF Pilot Experience Using Mozilla Open Badges
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In 2015 the GBIF Secretariat led a pilot experience on formal certification using Mozilla Open Badges as part of a training event addressed to GBIF nodes representatives. This presentation summarizes the outcome of that experience.
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GBIF Pilot Experience Using Mozilla Open Badges
- 1. 29 FEBRUARY 2016 Mozilla Open Badges II Alberto González-Talaván
- 2. WHAT IS A DIGITAL BADGE? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgLLq7ybDtc (short) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdv6R2BiYq4 (long)
- 3. WHAT IS A DIGITAL BADGE? A digital indicator of an achievement or a skill learned online or offline. An image file (PNG) which contains metadata (JSON) about: • The issuer and the earner • The criteria it was issued under • The evidence verifying the credential • The date of issue (and expiration date)
- 4. WHAT HAS MOZILLA TO DO WITH BADGES? Mozilla promoted the creation of an open technical standard and free software that any organization can use to create, issue and verify digital badges. It aligns with its mission to promote openness, innovation & opportunity on the Web.
- 5. WHO IS USING THEM Schools and universities. Including Purdue and Seton Hall. Community and non-profit organizations. Like the YMCA, 4H and Girl Guides. Government agencies. Including NASA, the New York City Department of Education, the NOAA and more. Libraries and museums. Like Cooper-Hewitt, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Dallas Museum of Art. Event organizers and science fairs. Including Intel. Companies and groups focused on professional development.
- 6. COMPONENTS OF THE BADGES ECOSYSTEM Issuers Badges Backpack Earner Displayers
- 7. COMPONENTS OF THE BADGES ECOSYSTEM II …but we do not need to worry about this.
- 8. THE VALUE OF A BADGE… Independently of the skill or achievement that it represents, the value of a badge is linked to: • How well it is defined (=quality of the metadata) • The robustness of the instruction and assessment mechanism (rigour) • The reputation of the issuer as source of instruction • The recognition of badges by the target community … IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE ISSUER
- 9. GBIF AND PILOT AT GB22 TRAINING EVENT As an issuer, we need to concentrate in: • Defining clear, instructionally significant requirements to earn each badge • Define and apply thorough, relevant assessment methods • Create awareness about the badge system and promote its use
- 10. GB22 PILOT EXPERIENCE: FROM PLANS TO FACTS The plans made early in 2015 became a reality as part of the GB22 training event for Nodes http://community.gbif.org/pg/pages/view/48270/gb22-training-event-for-nodes Issuer Badges Backpack Earners Displayers
- 11. THE PROCEDURE 1/3 : MONITORING What’s common to all these pictures? Colorful Chamaleon tails? No! our secret agents! (some of them more conspicuous than others…)
- 12. THE PROCEDURE 2/3 : ASSESSMENTS Grading by trainers using public rubrics Recommendation to GBIFS to assign a badge Submissions by students
- 13. THE PROCEDURE 3/3 : BADGE ASSIGNMENT The recipient can add the badge to backpacks and collections Badge issuer assigns the badge Announcement email
- 14. GB22 PILOT: BEHIND THE SCENES
- 15. This is how our individual badge criteria look: https://openbadgefactory.com/v1/badge/_/O1O3EJa6VYa1O/criteria.html?event=O33Y4ZaMKLa2H GB22 PILOT: BEHIND THE SCENES
- 16. GB22 PILOT: BEHIND THE SCENES Before the course • Define the instructional design and make it public • Define the assessment mechanism(s) and resources • Design and upload badges: image and contents • Agree the procedure with the trainers and students When assigning the badges • Make the individual evidence public • Compose individual badge criteria • Maintain a public awardee list • Follow-up on usability
- 17. GB22 PILOT: THE STATS Concept Amount Badges 2 Students 43 Trainers 5 Pilot experience participants 23 Final assignments received 10 Basic badges awarded 3 Advanced badges awarded 7
- 18. 2016 PLANS Set the basis for a global certification schema Establish a long-term badges issuing platform Implement role and capacity badges Use badges both for recognition and as a requirement Build upon the GB22 pilot experience
- 19. BID COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
- 20. REQUIREMENTS PROCESS RECOGNITION REQUIREMENTS VS. RECOGNITION BID grantee badge role Advanced publishing badge capacity Basic publishing badge capacity
- 21. 29 FEBRUARY 2016 Mozilla Open Badges II Alberto González-Talaván