Grainne Hamilton gave a presentation on open badges and their potential uses. Open badges are digital credentials that can be earned for skills, attributes, and competencies. They provide a way for learners to showcase skills to employers and for employers to identify candidates with certain qualifications. Hamilton discussed how open badges are being used by organizations like Borders College to motivate learners and enhance employability. Jisc RSC Scotland is also issuing open badges to accredit digital skills development. Overall, open badges provide a means to recognize both formal and informal learning in a way that is shared online.
The role of badging for recognising skills, abilities and learning - OU Sympo...grainnehamilton
This presentation provides an introduction to Mozilla's Open Badges Infrastructure and the opportunities an open, standards-based, digital credentialling system can provide. An insight into the Open Badges Discovery project will be provided and consideration given to how badge-based pathways to employment can be used to benefit people who are thinking about what their next step might be - be that education, training or employment.
Encouraging positive learning behaviours, recognising a wide variety of skills, attributes and understanding, enhancing motivation, developing digital identities…are just some of the aspirations people have been using Open Badges to support. Open Badges are part of an open infrastructure that enables digital credentials to be issued, earned and shared across the web. In this presentation I discuss some Open Badge developments happening in Scotland and further afield, including work I have been doing with Mozilla on the Discovery project, which is working with industry in the US to develop badge-based pathways to employment.
Slides for a webinar delivered on invitation from the NordPlus project in October 2016. The presentation focused on findings from the Open Badge Network's discussion paper - Quality Management and Open Badges (O7A1). (The Open Badge Network is a pan-European, Erasmus+ funded project). It also featured a prototype for a Quality Canvas developed by Digitalme, to help organisations consider strategic reasons for engaging with Open Badges before launching an Open Badge initiative.
Encouraging positive learning behaviours, recognising a wide variety of skills, attributes and understanding, enhancing motivation, developing digital identities… are just some of the aspirations people have been using Open Badges to support. Open Badges are part of an open infrastructure that enables digital credentials to be issued, earned and shared across the web. In this presentation I discuss some Open Badge developments happening in Scotland and further afield, including work I have been doing with Mozilla on the Discovery project, which is working with industry in the US to develop badge-based pathways to employment.
The role of badging for recognising skills, abilities and learning - OU Sympo...grainnehamilton
This presentation provides an introduction to Mozilla's Open Badges Infrastructure and the opportunities an open, standards-based, digital credentialling system can provide. An insight into the Open Badges Discovery project will be provided and consideration given to how badge-based pathways to employment can be used to benefit people who are thinking about what their next step might be - be that education, training or employment.
Encouraging positive learning behaviours, recognising a wide variety of skills, attributes and understanding, enhancing motivation, developing digital identities…are just some of the aspirations people have been using Open Badges to support. Open Badges are part of an open infrastructure that enables digital credentials to be issued, earned and shared across the web. In this presentation I discuss some Open Badge developments happening in Scotland and further afield, including work I have been doing with Mozilla on the Discovery project, which is working with industry in the US to develop badge-based pathways to employment.
Slides for a webinar delivered on invitation from the NordPlus project in October 2016. The presentation focused on findings from the Open Badge Network's discussion paper - Quality Management and Open Badges (O7A1). (The Open Badge Network is a pan-European, Erasmus+ funded project). It also featured a prototype for a Quality Canvas developed by Digitalme, to help organisations consider strategic reasons for engaging with Open Badges before launching an Open Badge initiative.
Encouraging positive learning behaviours, recognising a wide variety of skills, attributes and understanding, enhancing motivation, developing digital identities… are just some of the aspirations people have been using Open Badges to support. Open Badges are part of an open infrastructure that enables digital credentials to be issued, earned and shared across the web. In this presentation I discuss some Open Badge developments happening in Scotland and further afield, including work I have been doing with Mozilla on the Discovery project, which is working with industry in the US to develop badge-based pathways to employment.
Open Badges for Training and Professional DevelopmentDon Presant
Examines background needs, early solutions and the emerging vision of micro-credentialing for professional development and training for the workplace. Based on the Mozilla Open Badges infrastructure.
This presentation is frequently updated.
This presentation has been moved from a duplicate account (http://www.slideshare.net/donpresant9)
Iain Mac Labhrainn, Director of the Centre for Excellence in Learning & Teaching at the NUI Galway, talks about digital skills and what is the role of Open Badges in that area. He presents their big national project and the badge applications include: recognising student volunteering; academic staff development; study skills and employability.
TIAS LinkedIn training for full-time MBA students in Tilburg
As a social media platform for businesses and networking LinkedIn has never been stronger. With 2 new members joining every second of every day, it is no surprise that businesses in both the public and private sector are keen to capitalize on the world of connections that LinkedIn can offer.
Furthermore, LinkedIn have been active in their enhancement of site facilities. Once seen as the favored tool of choice by recruitment agencies or job seekers (and indeed still is), the site is now capable of providing a superb service for finding, targeting and addressing your potential employees and vacancies. This workshop is about how you use LinkedIn professionally, brand yourself as an authority and use it effectively to find a job.
LinkedIn Training Course Content
- The current social media “landscape”; LinkedIn trends;
- How to present yourself as a professional on LinkedIn;
- How do I build an effective and efficient LinkedIn-profile?
- Using LinkedIn for networking activities and job finding; how to collect and share information?
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Open Badges as Bridges: Design, Create, ConnectMatthew Rogers
Scottish MozFest Fringe event 2015.
Slides from a day of learning, making and creating in Glasgow.
Event information:
DigitalMe helps organisations to communicate the skills they need and people to evidence the skills they have using Open Badges. We invite you to join the DigitalMe Open Badge consultants for a day of designing, creating and connecting Open Badges.
This free event, which is a fringe activity for the pathway DigitalMe are leading at MozFest this year, will introduce Open Badges, and provide hands-on activities to design badges that are of value. During the event, you will be able to use our new online tool and mobile app to create and issue badges.
A key aim of the Scottish Government’s Youth Employment Strategy, Developing the Young Workforce is to build bridges between education, business and industry and the current Enhancement Theme for the Quality Assurance Authority for Higher Education (QAA) is Student Transitions into, during and out of university. Hear case studies of how Open Badges can be used to bridge transitions and engage in activities to create badge pathways connecting learners to destination points such as learning opportunities or employment.
Outcomes of the event:
- Learn what Open Badges are and how they can communicate the skills your organisation needs or evidence the skills you have
- Learn how to design the data to create a badge of value
- Learn how to create and issue a badge using a website and mobile app
- Learn how to create badge pathways to learning or employment opportunities
- Learn how badges can support transitions and act as bridges between education and employment
OBF Academy: Customer case - North Kirkwood Middle SchoolSaarni Learning Oy
Our customer from St. Louis, Missouri, USA, tells how they have started to issue Open Badges for their students. The kids have been involved in the process and they also have a dedicated instance of Open Badge Passport that is also branded for them. This is an ongoing story and we'll hear more before summer and this fall.
Training on social media, recruitment and a specific focus on LinkedIn for the preparation days. The audience is the group fulltime MSC students graduation January 2014 at TiasNimbas in Utrecht.
Training on social media, recruitment and a specific focus on LinkedIn for the preparation days. The audience is the group fulltime MBA students graduation Fall 2013 at TiasNimbas in Tilburg.
Open Badges for distance learning gamification and soft skills recognition
Emilie Lenel and Isabelle Duchatelle, from University of Caen Normandie, France, present how they use Open Badges to enhance students’ engagement in distance learning and for recognising students’ non-academic skills.
Designing strategically aligned credentialing systems with open badges to eng...Jisc
Open badges are digital credentials that earners can display anywhere on the web. They are underpinned by an open accreditation infrastructure developed by Mozilla, which enables the issuing of open badges to recognise granular achievements gained through formal and informal learning opportunities and to capture attributes not picked up in formal qualifications, such as the individual qualities that could help a student stand out in the job market. This workshop will focus on effective open badge system development, introducing Mozilla and Jisc toolkits to support badge system design and a strategic approach to implementing open badges in a formal education context. The session will be led by Mozilla and Jisc, and will include tips, case studies and guidance on best practice in badge system design. Participants will gain hands-on experience with tools they can use for developing open badge systems for motivating learning, supporting engagement and progression and enhancing employability.
Open Badges for Training and Professional DevelopmentDon Presant
Examines background needs, early solutions and the emerging vision of micro-credentialing for professional development and training for the workplace. Based on the Mozilla Open Badges infrastructure.
This presentation is frequently updated.
This presentation has been moved from a duplicate account (http://www.slideshare.net/donpresant9)
Iain Mac Labhrainn, Director of the Centre for Excellence in Learning & Teaching at the NUI Galway, talks about digital skills and what is the role of Open Badges in that area. He presents their big national project and the badge applications include: recognising student volunteering; academic staff development; study skills and employability.
TIAS LinkedIn training for full-time MBA students in Tilburg
As a social media platform for businesses and networking LinkedIn has never been stronger. With 2 new members joining every second of every day, it is no surprise that businesses in both the public and private sector are keen to capitalize on the world of connections that LinkedIn can offer.
Furthermore, LinkedIn have been active in their enhancement of site facilities. Once seen as the favored tool of choice by recruitment agencies or job seekers (and indeed still is), the site is now capable of providing a superb service for finding, targeting and addressing your potential employees and vacancies. This workshop is about how you use LinkedIn professionally, brand yourself as an authority and use it effectively to find a job.
LinkedIn Training Course Content
- The current social media “landscape”; LinkedIn trends;
- How to present yourself as a professional on LinkedIn;
- How do I build an effective and efficient LinkedIn-profile?
- Using LinkedIn for networking activities and job finding; how to collect and share information?
Training and workshop for the Part-Time MSc students of TIAS Business School in Utrecht on the power of LinkedIn, online networking and benefitting from networking via social media.
Open Badges as Bridges: Design, Create, ConnectMatthew Rogers
Scottish MozFest Fringe event 2015.
Slides from a day of learning, making and creating in Glasgow.
Event information:
DigitalMe helps organisations to communicate the skills they need and people to evidence the skills they have using Open Badges. We invite you to join the DigitalMe Open Badge consultants for a day of designing, creating and connecting Open Badges.
This free event, which is a fringe activity for the pathway DigitalMe are leading at MozFest this year, will introduce Open Badges, and provide hands-on activities to design badges that are of value. During the event, you will be able to use our new online tool and mobile app to create and issue badges.
A key aim of the Scottish Government’s Youth Employment Strategy, Developing the Young Workforce is to build bridges between education, business and industry and the current Enhancement Theme for the Quality Assurance Authority for Higher Education (QAA) is Student Transitions into, during and out of university. Hear case studies of how Open Badges can be used to bridge transitions and engage in activities to create badge pathways connecting learners to destination points such as learning opportunities or employment.
Outcomes of the event:
- Learn what Open Badges are and how they can communicate the skills your organisation needs or evidence the skills you have
- Learn how to design the data to create a badge of value
- Learn how to create and issue a badge using a website and mobile app
- Learn how to create badge pathways to learning or employment opportunities
- Learn how badges can support transitions and act as bridges between education and employment
OBF Academy: Customer case - North Kirkwood Middle SchoolSaarni Learning Oy
Our customer from St. Louis, Missouri, USA, tells how they have started to issue Open Badges for their students. The kids have been involved in the process and they also have a dedicated instance of Open Badge Passport that is also branded for them. This is an ongoing story and we'll hear more before summer and this fall.
Training on social media, recruitment and a specific focus on LinkedIn for the preparation days. The audience is the group fulltime MSC students graduation January 2014 at TiasNimbas in Utrecht.
Training on social media, recruitment and a specific focus on LinkedIn for the preparation days. The audience is the group fulltime MBA students graduation Fall 2013 at TiasNimbas in Tilburg.
Open Badges for distance learning gamification and soft skills recognition
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Designing strategically aligned credentialing systems with open badges to eng...Jisc
Open badges are digital credentials that earners can display anywhere on the web. They are underpinned by an open accreditation infrastructure developed by Mozilla, which enables the issuing of open badges to recognise granular achievements gained through formal and informal learning opportunities and to capture attributes not picked up in formal qualifications, such as the individual qualities that could help a student stand out in the job market. This workshop will focus on effective open badge system development, introducing Mozilla and Jisc toolkits to support badge system design and a strategic approach to implementing open badges in a formal education context. The session will be led by Mozilla and Jisc, and will include tips, case studies and guidance on best practice in badge system design. Participants will gain hands-on experience with tools they can use for developing open badge systems for motivating learning, supporting engagement and progression and enhancing employability.
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TIAS LinkedIn training for full-time MBA students in Tilburg
As a social media platform for businesses and networking LinkedIn has never been stronger. With 2 new members joining every second of every day, it is no surprise that businesses in both the public and private sector are keen to capitalize on the world of connections that LinkedIn can offer.
Furthermore, LinkedIn have been active in their enhancement of site facilities. Once seen as the favored tool of choice by recruitment agencies or job seekers (and indeed still is), the site is now capable of providing a superb service for finding, targeting and addressing your potential employees and vacancies. This workshop is about how you use LinkedIn professionally, brand yourself as an authority and use it effectively to find a job.
LinkedIn Training Course Content
- The current social media “landscape”; LinkedIn trends;
- How to present yourself as a professional on LinkedIn;
- How do I build an effective and efficient LinkedIn-profile?
- Using LinkedIn for networking activities and job finding; how to collect and share information?
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Badges at the formal/informal interface: badge use, functioning and learners ...Simon Cross
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Lead presenter: http://iet.open.ac.uk/people/s.j.cross
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Open badges have the potential to transform education credentials, especially because they can recognize the development of individual competencies that go unmentioned in traditional degrees and transcripts. The Design Principles Documentation Project studied 30 learning initiatives as they implemented digital badges and identified general design principles used by these projects. See some of our findings about badges, case studies in workforce preparation, and questions about implications of badges for workforce development.
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TIAS LinkedIn training for full-time MBA students in Tilburg
As a social media platform for businesses and networking LinkedIn has never been stronger. With 2 new members joining every second of every day, it is no surprise that businesses in both the public and private sector are keen to capitalize on the world of connections that LinkedIn can offer.
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- The current social media “landscape”; LinkedIn trends;
- How to present yourself as a professional on LinkedIn;
- How do I build an effective and efficient LinkedIn-profile?
- Using LinkedIn for networking activities and job finding; how to collect and share information?
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–A challenge for
prospective
employees
5. Standing out from the crowd
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From Flickr by James Cridland
•Demonstrating the right mix of skills and attributes for the job
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»A challenge for
employers
7. Choosing the right person from the crowd
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From Flickr by James Cridland
•Finding the person with the right mix of skills and attributes
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»A challenge for
everyone
9. Keeping up
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Austin Marathon Runner by Charlie Llewellin CC BY-SA 20 from Flickr
•Continuing to learn new skills as digital literacies develop
10. A digital future
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10
•The web is increasingly being used for:
Communication
Work
Professional
profiles
Learning
11. Open Badges
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•A digital accreditation infrastructure
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–Digital credentials – called
Open Badges
13. Open Badges
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•Information infused images
From Flickr by dun-deagh
14. Open Badges
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•Information infused digital images
Image by Kyle Bowen
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–Assessments and identification of
learning, attributes and
competencies
– An open infrastructure for
issuing, managing and sharing the
credentials
16. Open Badges
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•Digital credentials earners can display online
On: Professional profiles, e.g. LinkedIn / Blogs /
Personal websites / Social media / e-Portfolios...
17. Who are issuing badges?
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•A range of companies and educational institutions
18. What is in a badge?
•Cycle through these to ensure appropriate
badges, a flexible badge system and consistent
badge brand
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•Design considerations
Key considerations include:
»Badge systems design
»Badge content design
»Badge brand design
19. Badge content design
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•Considerations
»Who is your badge is for?
»Why would someone want to earn the badge?
»What:
› Skills / Attributes / Understanding are represented by the badge?
› Behaviours do you want to encourage?
› Criteria is required to earn the badge?
› Evidence will be linked to (if at all)?
› Modes of assessment are appropriate?
› Endorsement agreements, channels will you use?
› Systems, tags, sustainability requirements are there?
20. Badge system design
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•Considerations
»What do you want to
badge and why?
»Ensure your badge
system can grow
»Think about
constellations and
pathways
From Flickr by Kris Williams
21. Badge brand design
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•Considerations
»How will the badge visual
design represent you?
»What consistent visual
identifiers will you use for
key elements of your
badges?
»Who will design your
badge brand design?
»What systems or tools will
you use to design your
badge?
26. Employer pathways
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•Using a pathway as an issuer– Create a pathway template that makes suggestions for
particular jobs
– Creates a clear statement about the employer’s needs
– Provides opportunity to highlight badges linked to
learning opportunities, eg Mozilla Web Literacy badges
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•Career trees
Employer pathways
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•Using a pathway as an earner / prospective employee» Fill in pathways with badges
» Tell their story
» Set goals (unearned badges)
» Plan a career
» Copy pathways to explore options
Earner / employee pathways
29. Mozilla Discovery Tool
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•Web based tool for discovering / completing
pathways
30. Connecting over Open Badges
•The Open Badges
in Scottish
Education Group
(OBSEG) is hosted
by Jisc and performs
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•Open Badges in Scottish Education Group
31. Open Badges areas of interest
•The Open Badges
in Scottish
Education Group
(OBSEG) hosts the
following sub-groups:
– Learner Progress
– Staff Development
– Technology and Design
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•Open Badges in Scottish Education Group
32. Scottish Qualifications Authority
–Will explore the
adoption of Open
Badges as part of the
recognition for
teachers and
appointees through
SQA Academy
Courses
–Will explore the
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From Flickr by Doug Belshaw
33. Borders College
•Borders College has been
using Open Badges to:
»Motivate learners and
improve retention through
stepped achievements
»Encourage staff CPD
»Enhance employability
through recognising soft /
additional skills
»Improve digital literacies
with Moodle Open Badges
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•Improving motivation and enhancing employability
34. Benefits of CPD Open Badges
•Feedback from Head of HR and Development
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Jisc RSC Scotland
•Issuing badges to:
»Accredit the acquisition and
application of digital skills
»Recognise contribution to the
learning of others
»Reward the sharing of practice
»Increase the learning of the
sector
»Motivate engagement with Jisc
services
Recognising digital skills development
From Flickr by justus.thane
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36. Jisc RSC Scotland
Digital
Innovator
• iTechs
• Forums
• Webinars
Digital
Leadership
• OBSEG
Members
• Open Badges
Design Day
• Assessment
Summit
Digital
Practitioner
• Learning
OnLine
courses
•Current Open Badge Series
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38. Learning OnLine Badges
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•Digital skills courses - completer badges
39. Learning OnLine Open Badges
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•Digital skills courses - Influencer Badge
40. Jisc RSC Scotland Open Badges
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•Digital Practitioner Series
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41. Open Badges
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•What people are saying about Open Badges
•“It was nice to see a badges scheme in operation. I
really did think that collecting badges incentivised my
participation.”
•Participant, Jisc e-Assessment for Learning course
“We believe that Open Badges have enormous potential
in motivating learning, improving retention and in
presenting the skills of our learners in way that is clear
and accessible for them and employers. In this way, Open
Badges will help our learners stand out in the jobs
market.”
Vice-Principal: Quality and Innovation, Borders College.
42. Open Badges
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•What people are saying about Open Badges
•“…while academic achievements can be evidenced by
an…academic transcript, there is no such evidence of
so-called soft skills – the personal attributes that
enhance a graduate’s work ethic, job performance,
interaction with work colleagues and, ultimately,
their career prospects. I am convinced that Open
Badges can …evidence the development of these
personal attributes in a way that is recognisable to,
and trusted by, employers.”
• Tom Caira, Chair of the Industrial Advisory Board (Computing). University of the West of Scotland
43. Opportunities provided by Open
Badges
– Provide evidence of employability skills and
attributes not picked up in formal qualifications
– Showcase attributes alongside academic
qualifications on a professional profile such as
LinkedIn
– Search online to identify individuals with the right
mix of skills and attributes for a specific job
– Access evidence of the attributes or skills that have
been badged
– Create and influence relationships with education
providers through endorsement of badges
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44. Further information
– Mozilla Open Badges
• http://openbadges.org
– Mozilla Discovery Project
• http://discover.openbadges.org/
– Jisc RSC Scotland Open Badges
• http://www.rsc-scotland.org/?page_id=2223
– Open Badges case studies
• rsc-scotland.org/?tag=open-badges
– Open Badges blog posts
• http://bit.ly/openbadgesposts
– Open Badges in Scottish Education Group
• http://bit.ly/obseg
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- How do we help employers see them?
Increasingly many of the ways in which we work, communicate and learn involve the online environment.
Increasingly employers and recruitment agencies are also using the online environment to find potential candidates for jobs.
- So how can we help meet the needs of digital learners and also help students to stand out and demonstrate their employability in the online environment?
Mozilla have developed an open infrastructure which allows anyone to earn, issue and share digital credentials across the web.
The most obvious part of the system are probably the badges, the digital credentials.
Open Badges are information infused images. This concept is nothing new, think of coats of arms or kite marks – the images provide information to the viewer
So what is a badge?
Online, visual representations of achievements, skills, attributes, learning, competencies, contributions etc
Digital badges with metadata baked in – these include criteria and can include evidence
Align to a standard developed by an international community
Underpinned by the Open Badge Infrastructure (OBI) developed by Mozilla
Provide an opportunity to capture and demonstrate some of those skills that are not currently explicit in an academic qualification, such as soft skills like presentation and communication skills, employability skills like leadership, the ability to mentor others, being a good team player and so on
The open infrastructure is key to ensuring the credentials or badges, are not locked away in closed systems but that earners can display these credentials in whichever online platform they find useful.
Earners store their badges in a badgepack. Currently there is only one provided by Mozilla but as it is an open infrastructure, there is scope for other providers to create their own badge stores for providers to create their own. Earners can then choose to add their badges or groups of badges to online platforms such as recruitment sites, professional profile sites, on their own blogs, personal websites etc.
Go to ‘View’ menu > ‘Header and Footer…’ to edit the footers on this slide (click ‘Apply’ to change only the currently selected slide, or ‘Apply to All’ to change the footers on all slides).
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Go to ‘View’ menu > ‘Header and Footer…’ to edit the footers on this slide (click ‘Apply’ to change only the currently selected slide, or ‘Apply to All’ to change the footers on all slides).
To change the images on this slide:
Click once on an image to select it, and then delete it
Drag a replacement picture to the placeholder or click the icon in the centre of the placeholder to browse for & add another image
Once you have added your replacement image, you may need to put it into the background so that it doesn’t cover other items on the slide. Do this by right-clicking on the new image and choosing ‘Arrange’ > ‘Send to Back’ from the contextual menu
Staff at Borders College were given the opportunity to earn open badges by participating in CPD
The HR dept in Borders College have now replaced all paper based certification with Open Badges
Badge issuing done manually by e-learning team on receipt of email from HR dept
Full support of HR department
Removal of paper certificates
All staff now have at least one Open Badge – spreads awareness
Increase loyalty and attendance at CPD sessions
Staff see value in CPD sessions. No longer just mandatory
Links to HR systems and expiry dates
Awarding CPD Open Badges
Gave recogniton to staff of CPD
Able to keep an electronic record of their achievemnts
Raised awarness about the potential of open badges amongst staff – increase in interest and acceptance of the potential of open badges across the curriculum
College also saving time and money on printing and issuing of paper based certificates
Jisc RSC Scotland have 3 series of Open Badges:
Digital Practitioner Series
Digital Innovator Series – awarded for our iTech Case Study Contributors, Forum Contributors & Webinar Contributors
Digital Leadership Series – awarded to those who engage with us on topics such as our Assessment Summit, Open Badges Design Days, OBSEG group
Focus on Digital Practitioner Series
We’ve been awarded badges in this series since 2012 for those who successfully complete our Learning Online courses.
We have been exploring the potential of Open Badges at the Jisc RSC Scotland for over 2 years and piloting them with our courses and other services. Here is a quote from one of our participants. Borders College, who Suzanne will talk about in more detail soon have also been issuing badges this year, and can see clear potential for them. The Vice-Principal comments how they can help to motivate learning, improve retention and help learners stand out in the jobs market.
For any new accreditation system to be worthwhile, it must be useful for employers. Tom Caira, the Chair of the Industrial Advisory Board (Computing) at UWS which has around 80 members from the computing industry including large multi-nationals to local employers, talks about how he believes Open Badges could help to evidence some of the attributes employers are looking for.