Digital badges can recognize accomplishments, accreditation, and mastery. There are many sources that issue badges, but most are siloed. Mozilla Open Badges provides an open standard for badges that can be displayed and verified across systems. The presentation introduced digital badges and considerations for badge system design. It also covered earning badges from different sources, displaying badges, and getting started with issuing open badges at an institution.

1. Digital Badges
Presenter: Peter Rawsthorne
Twitter: @prawsthorne
Backchannel: #digitalbadges

2. 1st Lunch and Learn
• December 3rd
– Introduction to digital badges
– Considerations toward badge systems design
– Earning a few badges from different sources
– Displaying badges
– All the wonderful silos
– Mozilla Open Badges
– Institutional Activities
– Getting started with issuing badges

4. Life Long Learner
• Capilano College - CMPT Graduate 1990
• BCIT - B.Tech Graduate 1996
• JIBC - Conflict Resolution 1997
• Industry certifications ongoing
• Memorial - M.Ed IT 2007
• #NoPhD - Networked & Open PhD ongoing

5. Straddling two career paths
•20 years in technology
Mozilla, Protexis, Fincentric, UBC, BCAA, CLEBC,
ICBC, Ritchie Bros., AppNovation, Xantrex, VFS
•15 years in teaching
Capilano College, BCIT, Memorial University,
Wikiversity, COL, WikiEducator, CLEBC
•I still alternate between the two

6. Setting out to inspire adult learners.
Pedagogy, technology and life-long learning
from outside the institutions.
http://criticaltechnology.blogspot.ca/

7. oer
digital
badges

10. badges, buttons, patches, pins, ribb
ons, medals, etc…

11. What are the alternative methods to
recognizing accomplishments,
accreditation, and mastery?

12. What about curriculum?

15. Time to earn some badges!

18. Khan Academy - http://www.khanacademy.org/badges
FourSquare - http://www.4squarebadges.com/foursquare-badge-list/
BadgeStack - http://badgestack.com/
TripAdvisor - http://www.tripadvisor.com/
Mozilla Open Badges - http://openbadges.org
Stackoverflow - http://stackoverflow.com/badges
Wikipedia Barnstars - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Barnstars
With the exception of Mozilla Open Badges (and derivatives), all
these issuers are siloed. Though most of them provide methods to
access earned badges through software (or API’s).

19. Badges need to be displayed

23. Open source is a great thing…

24. Deep Breath…

25. API’s
Application Programming Interface’s

26. issuers displayers

28. Now what?

35. What about the institution and
Mozilla Open Badges?

36. • Frequently provides
guidance to Mozilla
• Early adopter
• Encouraged self directed
David Wiley
Brigham Young University
http://davidwiley.org/

37. • Frequently provides
guidance to Mozilla
• Early adopter
• Very engaged
community member
• Experimented with the
chunkiness of badges Alexander Halavais
• http://www.slideshare. Arizona State University
http://alex.halavais.net/
net/halavais/eld12-
badge-design

38. http://www.itap.purdue.edu/studio/passport/

39. 1. For more information go to
the OpenBadges Google
Group. A very good list that
covers many topics within
Open Badges.
2. They also have weekly
community calls so keep
monitoring the group, for
the location of the related
weekly discussion forum.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!forum/openbadges

40. Essential attributes of a badge

41. The Open Badge meta-data
The REQUIRED metadata fields are:
•Badge Title
•Description
•Criteria
•Image URL
•Issuer
•Issue Date
•Recipient
The OPTIONAL metadata fields are:
•Evidence URL
•Expiration Date

42. Homework!!!
1. Go out into the wilds of the internet and earn
badges from two different sources. Write a blog
post about your experience, be critical!
2. Think about what data attributes are required
for a stand alone badge. Write a blog post about
the data structure of the badge.
3. BONUS: Think about if the badge exists in a
hierarchy or network of badges would this add
data attributes to the badge. Write a blog post
about badges clustering together and
representing learning within a subject domain.

43. Thank-you!

44. Questions...
peter@rawsthorne.org
Twitter: @prawsthorne