This document discusses open digital badges and their potential use. It begins by providing context on open education initiatives and the concept of micro-credentials. It then defines digital badges, describing their elements and how they can represent achievements, goals and skills. The document outlines a pilot using badges in Moodle for an online course. It finds participants were interested in badges and the Moodle system performed as expected. It concludes by reflecting on principles for using technology in education and lists useful badge tools and projects.
What is an open badging system and how to implement itEbizon
Digital open badges provide verifiable credentials for skills and achievements online. They contain metadata about the issuer, criteria, and evidence embedded in the badge. An open badge system requires an issuer to create badges, a backpack for users to store and manage badges, and displayers to show badges online. Implementing such a system involves choosing a backpack like Mozilla's, installing the issuer and displayer as plugins, and establishing a team of developers and badge designers. Out of the box solutions are also available as modules for platforms like Drupal and Django.
Re-imagining credentials with Mozilla Open Badges - an Open Badges design wor...DigitalME
1. The document discusses Mozilla Open Badges, which are a web standard for capturing and communicating learning through digital badges. Open badges can recognize learning in both formal and informal contexts.
2. Several organizations and initiatives are highlighted that have issued hundreds of thousands of open badges. Tools are also available for creating, issuing, and displaying open badges.
3. The presentation provides examples of how open badges have been used, including by an initiative called S2R Medals that issues badges to students for skills in areas like journalism, coaching and producing. It also discusses designing open badges and engaging stakeholders.
Department of Health - Badge design day LucyDigitalMe
Open badges are a web standard for capturing and communicating skills and qualifications. They can be used to motivate students, recognize learning, and provide accreditation. Organizations are using open badges to provide credentials for formal and informal learning experiences. Over 300,000 badges have been issued by over 2,000 issuers to over 52,000 backpacks. The presenter discusses how open badges could be used for a school nurse project to recognize students as health champions and help step them into health careers. A badge design process is outlined involving defining the audience, components, pathways, and resources needed.
This document discusses open badges and their use on Moodle. It provides an overview of open badges, explaining that they are digital representations of achievements, skills, learning, interests and competencies. The document discusses research on open badges in higher education that found students want badges to stand out from peers and be linked to professional accreditation. It also outlines how badges work, who is using them, and provides tips for developing a plan to implement badges, including what to badge, who issues them, designing badges, and choosing an issuing platform.
Digital badges can summarize skills, qualifications, and achievements in an online portfolio. They provide verification and recognition of learning through metadata embedded in image files. Platforms allow issuers to create and grant badges to earners, who can display and share their badges online. Badges motivate learning, recognize diverse skills, and help map learning pathways. Industries and universities are increasingly using digital badges for talent management, online training, and skills development.
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)
Digital badges can recognize skills gained through non-formal learning environments like fabrication laboratories (Fab Labs). The presenter proposes a digital badge system for a Fab Lab to motivate learners and validate skills in technologies, collaboration, and other 21st century abilities. A prototype was developed recognizing skills like building a drone or 3D printer. Digital badges aim to improve training evaluation, link skills to market needs, and support lifelong learning. They may develop expertise in Quebec and contribute to open skills repositories for Fab Labs internationally. Future research could explore badges for organizations with Living Labs and Fab Labs, as well as using blockchain technology.
What is an open badging system and how to implement itEbizon
Digital open badges provide verifiable credentials for skills and achievements online. They contain metadata about the issuer, criteria, and evidence embedded in the badge. An open badge system requires an issuer to create badges, a backpack for users to store and manage badges, and displayers to show badges online. Implementing such a system involves choosing a backpack like Mozilla's, installing the issuer and displayer as plugins, and establishing a team of developers and badge designers. Out of the box solutions are also available as modules for platforms like Drupal and Django.
Re-imagining credentials with Mozilla Open Badges - an Open Badges design wor...DigitalME
1. The document discusses Mozilla Open Badges, which are a web standard for capturing and communicating learning through digital badges. Open badges can recognize learning in both formal and informal contexts.
2. Several organizations and initiatives are highlighted that have issued hundreds of thousands of open badges. Tools are also available for creating, issuing, and displaying open badges.
3. The presentation provides examples of how open badges have been used, including by an initiative called S2R Medals that issues badges to students for skills in areas like journalism, coaching and producing. It also discusses designing open badges and engaging stakeholders.
Department of Health - Badge design day LucyDigitalMe
Open badges are a web standard for capturing and communicating skills and qualifications. They can be used to motivate students, recognize learning, and provide accreditation. Organizations are using open badges to provide credentials for formal and informal learning experiences. Over 300,000 badges have been issued by over 2,000 issuers to over 52,000 backpacks. The presenter discusses how open badges could be used for a school nurse project to recognize students as health champions and help step them into health careers. A badge design process is outlined involving defining the audience, components, pathways, and resources needed.
This document discusses open badges and their use on Moodle. It provides an overview of open badges, explaining that they are digital representations of achievements, skills, learning, interests and competencies. The document discusses research on open badges in higher education that found students want badges to stand out from peers and be linked to professional accreditation. It also outlines how badges work, who is using them, and provides tips for developing a plan to implement badges, including what to badge, who issues them, designing badges, and choosing an issuing platform.
Digital badges can summarize skills, qualifications, and achievements in an online portfolio. They provide verification and recognition of learning through metadata embedded in image files. Platforms allow issuers to create and grant badges to earners, who can display and share their badges online. Badges motivate learning, recognize diverse skills, and help map learning pathways. Industries and universities are increasingly using digital badges for talent management, online training, and skills development.
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)
Digital badges can recognize skills gained through non-formal learning environments like fabrication laboratories (Fab Labs). The presenter proposes a digital badge system for a Fab Lab to motivate learners and validate skills in technologies, collaboration, and other 21st century abilities. A prototype was developed recognizing skills like building a drone or 3D printer. Digital badges aim to improve training evaluation, link skills to market needs, and support lifelong learning. They may develop expertise in Quebec and contribute to open skills repositories for Fab Labs internationally. Future research could explore badges for organizations with Living Labs and Fab Labs, as well as using blockchain technology.
Developing Digital Literacy within the CurriculumRebecca Ferriday
This document discusses developing digital literacy within university curriculums. It defines digital literacy as the capabilities needed to thrive in a digital society. For university graduates, digital literacy means having specialized skills in using technology effectively for their field of study. These skills include using technology for learning, work and social life, being creative and critical users of technology, and being aware of ethical issues. The document presents a model showing how digital literacy impacts personal, social and professional lives. It suggests ways to audit how digital technologies are changing subjects and professions. Activities are proposed to develop digital literacy skills through problem-based learning tasks using technology. References for further resources on digital literacies are also provided.
All Aboard - Review Panel Presentation March 2016iainmacl
Presentation to the International Review Panel given in Dublin on 1st March 2016. Projected funded by Ireland's National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning
This document discusses the need for and benefits of badge sharing features in Open Badge Factory. It provides several use cases where organizations may want to share badges they have developed, such as an organization sharing its badge system with similar groups. Badge sharing can help avoid inflation, make better use of resources and expertise, and increase badge value if they are widely recognized. The document proposes the next step is developing features to support collaborative badge and badge system design across organizations.
Exploring the potential of badging: Badges = engagement + dataKelvin Thompson
Listen to session audio: http://bit.ly/audio_fdla2013
Slidecast of invited spotlight session at Florida Distance Learning Association 2013 Annual Conference
Slides from presentation made at the League for Innovation CIT 2006. Forgive the title-this is the first attempt at presenting this material. Feel free to leave constructive comments and/or suggestions
Personal learning environments brenton dass 201225820Brenton Dass
I was truly inspired by the works of many if the collaborators when we were asked to compile this presentation in one of the modules for first semester I didnt hesitate to make use of their excellent depictions of a personal learning network
E2BN DigitalMe Open Badges PresentationLucyDigitalMe
This document discusses Mozilla Open Badges and how they can be used to recognize 21st century skills. It provides an overview of open badges, how they work, and how they can be displayed online. The document promotes Badge the UK, an initiative to help teachers create badges for skills in their subject area and provide a platform for students to earn and display badges. Examples of potential badge pathways and designs are also presented to engage students in independently exploring technology and conducting projects using it.
These slides were initially prepared for a presentation at Hong Kong City University in Oct. 2010. I later added a few slides defining e-learning and addressing 21st century learning.
The document discusses factors that influence collaborative learning design at BCIT. It outlines external conditions like industry standards and internal conditions like available expertise. It provides examples of collaborative projects between subject matter experts, instructional designers, and technical staff. These include a capstone health management course, marine simulator exercises, and an institutional partnership with an external organization. Overall, the summary emphasizes that learning design considers both external requirements and internal resources.
OBF Academy webinar- Digital open badges in a tutor teacher network project i...Open Badge Factory Ltd.
The document discusses a digital open badge project in the Päijät-Häme region of Finland aimed at promoting teaching staff skills in transversal competencies. It describes the creation of 7 basic-level and 7 advanced-level digital open badges focused on transversal competencies. Teaching staff can earn the basic-level badges by self-assessment and goal-setting, while the advanced badges require planning and executing a collaborative project. The badges are issued through an online platform and aim to provide a coherent way to identify, assess, and promote teaching staff skills in transversal competencies across the region.
Open Badges (Contemporary Approaches to Teaching workshop)Ian Glover
Short overview of Open Badges for a 15 minute workshop. Part of the Contemporary Approaches to Teaching event at Sheffield Hallam University on 10th December 2013
Open Badges Pilot - Humanitarian Passport InitiativeDon Presant
This document discusses the Humanitarian Passport Initiative and Open Badges. It aims to enable access to learning resources and tools to build capacity for humanitarian aid. It works through Academy Centres, Collaboration Centres, and the Kaya digital learning platform. The initiative aims to democratize access to learning and recognition of skills. It promotes the use of open badges to provide portable, visual representations of learning achievements and competencies. The document outlines plans to develop badge systems for humanitarian skills recognition through various partners and aligned with standards. It explores methods for competency-based learning and assessment beyond traditional courses.
The document outlines the Learning Technology Support team, their roles, and services provided. The team is led by Dave Harden and includes learning technologists, technicians, and an administrator. They provide e-learning support, computer aided assessment, ICT training including ECDL, and a plagiarism detection service. Support is offered through individual assistance, workshops, course development support, and policy advice. Skills support includes ICT training programs and an ECDL test center. A plagiarism detection pilot is underway along with development of an LPD CD-Rom and web resource.
Digital practitioner university stirlingJisc Scotland
This document discusses developing digital literacy skills for practitioners. It defines basic, literacy and fluency levels of digital skills and examines how these skills can be supported through effective integration into learning strategies. Case studies show examples of using tools like virtual learning environments, ePortfolios and social media to enhance teaching and learning in practice.
Whole Education Badge Design Day at Shireland Collegiate AcademyLucyDigitalMe
This document discusses Open Badges, which are digital credentials that represent skills and achievements. Open Badges can be earned in both formal and informal learning contexts. They provide a way to recognize and communicate learning across different systems and platforms. The document outlines how Open Badges work on the Mozilla Backpack infrastructure and shares examples of how schools, organizations, and individuals are using Open Badges. It also provides guidance on designing Open Badges, including choosing audiences and values, components, pathways, resources, and the design process. Overall, the document promotes Open Badges as a way to motivate learners, track progress, and help make skills and achievements more discoverable.
next generation technologies to build sustainable communities of practiceGeorge Roberts
The document discusses using next generation technologies to build sustainable communities of practice. It describes the Emerge project which used Web 2.0 technologies and appreciative inquiry to foster positive change among individuals. Realizing benefits requires recognizing that communities are multi-modal and not defined by any single platform. Sustainable community practice involves negotiating control between individuals and institutions.
This document discusses enabling staff and students to develop digital skills. It presents challenges like intimidation with technology and inflexible training. The approach aims to be participatory, collaborative, fun and support skills through technologies. Open badges are used to mark achievements in a digital skills framework for skills development, outreach, CPD and more. Students partner to create content like workshops and digital champions. Content is developed through creative workshops and packaged for online lessons and badge criteria. Technologies include a website, self-assessment tool, and Open Badge Factory for issuing and tracking badges.
This document discusses an Open Badges trial conducted by Cambridge English from October 2016 to March 2017. The trial found that while teacher familiarity with Open Badges increased over time, employers were still less familiar. Teachers were motivated to earn badges for professional development and to prove their skills, but were uncertain how badges could be used. The trial demonstrated growing interest in Open Badges for recognizing learning, though wider adoption depends on teacher influence and recognition by employers. Cambridge English plans to continue issuing badges and research expanding their badge program.
This document explores different modes of distance education provision in the African context, including fully online, blended, and offline models. It presents these options along multiple continua or dimensions, including the extent of digital technology integration, geographic distribution of teachers and learners, and level of interaction. The key dimensions discussed are the spatial separation of learners and teachers, the level of digital and Internet support, and whether engagement is synchronous, asynchronous, or a mix. The document emphasizes the need to choose approaches that support pedagogical goals and match learners' and teachers' technology profiles and contexts.
Learning Development in the Open using FOSS - eLA 2014Brenda Mallinson
This document outlines a workshop on moving from course design to development using free and open source software (FOSS). The workshop aims to help participants maximize the functionality of their virtual learning environment, adopt a systematic approach to online course development, and facilitate decision making on educational software needs. It includes sessions on exploring FOSS categories and purposes, assessing current FOSS use at institutions, designing landing pages and layering in a learning management system, and developing an activity using a FOSS tool. The document emphasizes building capacity for sustainable FOSS use through collaboration and administrative support.
Developing Digital Literacy within the CurriculumRebecca Ferriday
This document discusses developing digital literacy within university curriculums. It defines digital literacy as the capabilities needed to thrive in a digital society. For university graduates, digital literacy means having specialized skills in using technology effectively for their field of study. These skills include using technology for learning, work and social life, being creative and critical users of technology, and being aware of ethical issues. The document presents a model showing how digital literacy impacts personal, social and professional lives. It suggests ways to audit how digital technologies are changing subjects and professions. Activities are proposed to develop digital literacy skills through problem-based learning tasks using technology. References for further resources on digital literacies are also provided.
All Aboard - Review Panel Presentation March 2016iainmacl
Presentation to the International Review Panel given in Dublin on 1st March 2016. Projected funded by Ireland's National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning
This document discusses the need for and benefits of badge sharing features in Open Badge Factory. It provides several use cases where organizations may want to share badges they have developed, such as an organization sharing its badge system with similar groups. Badge sharing can help avoid inflation, make better use of resources and expertise, and increase badge value if they are widely recognized. The document proposes the next step is developing features to support collaborative badge and badge system design across organizations.
Exploring the potential of badging: Badges = engagement + dataKelvin Thompson
Listen to session audio: http://bit.ly/audio_fdla2013
Slidecast of invited spotlight session at Florida Distance Learning Association 2013 Annual Conference
Slides from presentation made at the League for Innovation CIT 2006. Forgive the title-this is the first attempt at presenting this material. Feel free to leave constructive comments and/or suggestions
Personal learning environments brenton dass 201225820Brenton Dass
I was truly inspired by the works of many if the collaborators when we were asked to compile this presentation in one of the modules for first semester I didnt hesitate to make use of their excellent depictions of a personal learning network
E2BN DigitalMe Open Badges PresentationLucyDigitalMe
This document discusses Mozilla Open Badges and how they can be used to recognize 21st century skills. It provides an overview of open badges, how they work, and how they can be displayed online. The document promotes Badge the UK, an initiative to help teachers create badges for skills in their subject area and provide a platform for students to earn and display badges. Examples of potential badge pathways and designs are also presented to engage students in independently exploring technology and conducting projects using it.
These slides were initially prepared for a presentation at Hong Kong City University in Oct. 2010. I later added a few slides defining e-learning and addressing 21st century learning.
The document discusses factors that influence collaborative learning design at BCIT. It outlines external conditions like industry standards and internal conditions like available expertise. It provides examples of collaborative projects between subject matter experts, instructional designers, and technical staff. These include a capstone health management course, marine simulator exercises, and an institutional partnership with an external organization. Overall, the summary emphasizes that learning design considers both external requirements and internal resources.
OBF Academy webinar- Digital open badges in a tutor teacher network project i...Open Badge Factory Ltd.
The document discusses a digital open badge project in the Päijät-Häme region of Finland aimed at promoting teaching staff skills in transversal competencies. It describes the creation of 7 basic-level and 7 advanced-level digital open badges focused on transversal competencies. Teaching staff can earn the basic-level badges by self-assessment and goal-setting, while the advanced badges require planning and executing a collaborative project. The badges are issued through an online platform and aim to provide a coherent way to identify, assess, and promote teaching staff skills in transversal competencies across the region.
Open Badges (Contemporary Approaches to Teaching workshop)Ian Glover
Short overview of Open Badges for a 15 minute workshop. Part of the Contemporary Approaches to Teaching event at Sheffield Hallam University on 10th December 2013
Open Badges Pilot - Humanitarian Passport InitiativeDon Presant
This document discusses the Humanitarian Passport Initiative and Open Badges. It aims to enable access to learning resources and tools to build capacity for humanitarian aid. It works through Academy Centres, Collaboration Centres, and the Kaya digital learning platform. The initiative aims to democratize access to learning and recognition of skills. It promotes the use of open badges to provide portable, visual representations of learning achievements and competencies. The document outlines plans to develop badge systems for humanitarian skills recognition through various partners and aligned with standards. It explores methods for competency-based learning and assessment beyond traditional courses.
The document outlines the Learning Technology Support team, their roles, and services provided. The team is led by Dave Harden and includes learning technologists, technicians, and an administrator. They provide e-learning support, computer aided assessment, ICT training including ECDL, and a plagiarism detection service. Support is offered through individual assistance, workshops, course development support, and policy advice. Skills support includes ICT training programs and an ECDL test center. A plagiarism detection pilot is underway along with development of an LPD CD-Rom and web resource.
Digital practitioner university stirlingJisc Scotland
This document discusses developing digital literacy skills for practitioners. It defines basic, literacy and fluency levels of digital skills and examines how these skills can be supported through effective integration into learning strategies. Case studies show examples of using tools like virtual learning environments, ePortfolios and social media to enhance teaching and learning in practice.
Whole Education Badge Design Day at Shireland Collegiate AcademyLucyDigitalMe
This document discusses Open Badges, which are digital credentials that represent skills and achievements. Open Badges can be earned in both formal and informal learning contexts. They provide a way to recognize and communicate learning across different systems and platforms. The document outlines how Open Badges work on the Mozilla Backpack infrastructure and shares examples of how schools, organizations, and individuals are using Open Badges. It also provides guidance on designing Open Badges, including choosing audiences and values, components, pathways, resources, and the design process. Overall, the document promotes Open Badges as a way to motivate learners, track progress, and help make skills and achievements more discoverable.
next generation technologies to build sustainable communities of practiceGeorge Roberts
The document discusses using next generation technologies to build sustainable communities of practice. It describes the Emerge project which used Web 2.0 technologies and appreciative inquiry to foster positive change among individuals. Realizing benefits requires recognizing that communities are multi-modal and not defined by any single platform. Sustainable community practice involves negotiating control between individuals and institutions.
This document discusses enabling staff and students to develop digital skills. It presents challenges like intimidation with technology and inflexible training. The approach aims to be participatory, collaborative, fun and support skills through technologies. Open badges are used to mark achievements in a digital skills framework for skills development, outreach, CPD and more. Students partner to create content like workshops and digital champions. Content is developed through creative workshops and packaged for online lessons and badge criteria. Technologies include a website, self-assessment tool, and Open Badge Factory for issuing and tracking badges.
This document discusses an Open Badges trial conducted by Cambridge English from October 2016 to March 2017. The trial found that while teacher familiarity with Open Badges increased over time, employers were still less familiar. Teachers were motivated to earn badges for professional development and to prove their skills, but were uncertain how badges could be used. The trial demonstrated growing interest in Open Badges for recognizing learning, though wider adoption depends on teacher influence and recognition by employers. Cambridge English plans to continue issuing badges and research expanding their badge program.
This document explores different modes of distance education provision in the African context, including fully online, blended, and offline models. It presents these options along multiple continua or dimensions, including the extent of digital technology integration, geographic distribution of teachers and learners, and level of interaction. The key dimensions discussed are the spatial separation of learners and teachers, the level of digital and Internet support, and whether engagement is synchronous, asynchronous, or a mix. The document emphasizes the need to choose approaches that support pedagogical goals and match learners' and teachers' technology profiles and contexts.
Learning Development in the Open using FOSS - eLA 2014Brenda Mallinson
This document outlines a workshop on moving from course design to development using free and open source software (FOSS). The workshop aims to help participants maximize the functionality of their virtual learning environment, adopt a systematic approach to online course development, and facilitate decision making on educational software needs. It includes sessions on exploring FOSS categories and purposes, assessing current FOSS use at institutions, designing landing pages and layering in a learning management system, and developing an activity using a FOSS tool. The document emphasizes building capacity for sustainable FOSS use through collaboration and administrative support.
The document summarizes Brenda Mallinson's design science research process for addressing digital fluency for academic staff at the Open University of Tanzania. The research involved: 1) Identifying problems like the need to update policies and enhance the digital library; 2) Developing a solution of a "Digital Fluency" course with 5 modules; and 3) Piloting the course modules, gathering feedback, and revising the modules. The goal was to publish the course as an open educational resource to help academics develop digital competencies and guide students in using digital resources.
Top eLearning Tools for African Higher EducationGreig Krull
Looking at the top elearning tools for African Higher Education. Presented at Cloud Computing in Higher Education Conference, Johannesburg, 28 August 2014. Discusses free and open online learning tools.
The document discusses the rise of openness and online learning. It defines key concepts related to open education like open educational resources (OER), MOOCs, and open licenses. OER allow teaching materials to be freely used and adapted. MOOCs make university-level courses available online to many learners. The document also examines challenges and strategies for open and online education. It questions how teaching and learning will change as education becomes more open and available online.
E learning perspectives - Rhodes University, Dept of Information SystemsBrenda Mallinson
eLearning Perspectives
Invited presentation to the Virtual Collaboration Honours group
Dept of Information Systems, Rhodes University
Module convener: Chris Upfold
Moodle Moot Virtual Conference 2015 (MMVC15):
Remixing OERs - Adapting for Purpose and Context
Online WizIQ class on: http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/2877060-mmvc15-remixing-oers-adapting-for-purpose-and-context
Date: 11am (GMT+2) Saturday 8th August 2015
Full paper:
Mallinson and Krull (2015) "An OER Online Course Remixing Experience" Open Praxis Vol 7 (3)
http://www.openpraxis.org/index.php/OpenPraxis/issue/view/13/showToc
The document summarizes a study on the position, challenges, and potential for promoting open educational resources (OERs) at the Open University of Tanzania (OUT). The study found that while OUT utilizes resources from organizations like African Virtual University (AVU) and OER Africa, it lacks a comprehensive OER policy. Staff are willing to develop, integrate, and use OERs but need training. The document recommends that OUT develop an OER policy, provide OER training to staff, and collaborate with other institutions to promote OERs in Africa.
This document provides an introduction to digital badges, including what they are, why they are used, and how badge systems work. Digital badges are visual symbols that represent achievements and communicate success online and across networks. They are embedded with information about criteria and can be stacked and transferred. Badge systems have issuers who award badges, badges themselves that represent criteria, earners who complete tasks, storage for hosting badges, and ways to display badges. Tools exist for designing, issuing, storing, and displaying badges. Digital badges can be used by organizations to recognize internal achievements and skills not on traditional certificates.
The document outlines the Berta Project, which aims to (1) collate open educational resources (OERs) relevant for training teacher educators in quality online and distance education (ODeL) in Africa, (2) organize the OERs into a course format to empower teacher educators to adapt the resources for their contexts, and (3) develop the resource in consultation with stakeholders. The project methodology involves finding appropriate OERs, integrating them into a program organized into 4 thematic modules on program design, assessment, student support, and using ICT tools, and getting feedback from stakeholders through webinars and conferences. The final version will be published under a Creative Commons license for open use.
This document discusses using offline solutions for online and blended learning in universities in sub-Saharan Africa. It describes a project that aimed to build capacity for online course design and delivery using a virtual learning environment (VLE) like Moodle. However, many universities in the region faced issues like unreliable internet access. Possible solutions explored included portable versions of Moodle called Poodle that allowed offline access to full courses on USB drives. While this helped with skills development and access, internet was still needed for communication and interaction. Synchronization between online and offline versions also needed improvement. Overall, offline VLEs showed potential but also challenges that institutions would need to address through support and clear planning.
This document outlines an agenda for a Moodle workshop. It includes an introduction to Moodle roles and permissions, demonstrations of course creation and settings, and discussions of course structure and content organization. Time is allotted for questions and supporting resources are provided, including documentation, video tutorials, and online demonstration sites.
The document summarizes an open badges workshop presented by Martin Cooke. It defines open badges as digital representations of skills and achievements that contain essential credentialing information. It discusses how badges are used on platforms like Moodle and Edmodo to recognize learner progress and skills. The document also addresses some issues with open badge systems, such as ensuring the ongoing credibility and recognition of badges.
This document discusses the use of digital badges for learning. It provides examples of institutions that are using digital badges and outlines some of the benefits of badges, such as tracking learning progress, demonstrating skills, and recognizing soft skills. It also provides resources for designing digital badge systems, including templates for mapping competencies and creating personas. Guidelines are presented for designing meaningful badges and curriculums.
Open Badges: Trusted Currency for a Skills EcosystemDon Presant
This document discusses open badges and skills recognition in a changing job market. It notes that technological changes are shortening the shelf life of existing skills, and that social and emotional skills will be increasingly important. The document outlines top skills for 2020 according to the World Economic Forum, and recommendations for lifelong learning. It discusses competency-based learning and recognition of formal, non-formal and informal learning. Open badges are presented as a way to provide transparent, portable recognition of diverse forms of learning and skills through digital credentials. Examples of open badge implementations across sectors are provided.
This document summarizes an open badge design day hosted by DigitalMe. It introduces open badges and their benefits, such as providing a new way to recognize skills across different learning contexts. The agenda includes an open badge overview, designing badges using a canvas, creating visual designs on Makebadg.es, and discussing next steps. Participants will understand open badges, design a badge for their organization, and think about practical launch plans. The goal is to explore how open badges can work for different organizations to communicate skills in a open and verifiable standard.
Using game-design pedagogies to embed skills in the law or social science curriculum - a 1 day conference held at Staffordshire University on behalf of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
“Open badges for digital skills: Opportunities and Challenges” By Julie Adams, Academic Skills Tutor (IT), Information Services
Session outline: This session will look at some of the opportunities offered by open badges to recognise skills and competencies both inside and outside the curriculum, as well as some of the challenges to overcome when considering their adoption. It will explain how the Academic Skills Know-how team at Staffordshire University are planning on extending their use of open badges to recognise students’ digital literacy skills. Some of the tools available to ensure badges are well designed and credible will be outlined.
Badge Design Day for charities, employers and learning programmes 19th March 14LucyDigitalMe
This document summarizes an open badge design day hosted by DigitalMe. The event aimed to introduce participants to open badges and have them design their own badge. Open badges provide a way to recognize skills across different learning contexts and are being used by thousands of organizations worldwide. During the event, participants learned about open badges, used a badge design canvas to create their own badge, and explored tools for visual design and implementation. They also discussed next steps for launching badges and partnering with DigitalMe's Badge the UK initiative.
This document discusses using digital badges to assess students' development of digital literacy skills. It explains that digital badges provide evidence of skills earned through programs like a school's Digital Passport program. Badges contain metadata describing criteria, evidence of learning, and details. Open badges follow an interoperable standard and can represent a wide range of skills earned both in and out of school. The document advocates that digital badges can guide student learning, illustrate learning pathways, make skills more visible, and allow skills to transfer between contexts. It presents digital badges as having potential but still being in early stages of adoption in education.
Rethinking Rewards in the Digital Age - Managing an Ecosystem of Digital Badg...Jaime Goldman
Florida Library Webinar (FLW) presented on April 29, 2015: Librarians are always searching for new and innovative ways to motivate and engage their target audience. But, what incentives work in today’s digital age? Learn how to use online badges as a new, non-traditional reward to recognize and value learning and participation at your library. This fun and interactive session will discuss digital badges, which are validated, online representations of earned knowledge or skills that can be collected and displayed across many online environments. Learn how to plan, organize, issue, and display your digital badges through open digital badging platforms in order to create and build your own badge ecosystem as both a badge issuer and earner. Participants will even earn a new digital badge for attending the session!
Toward Student Engagement and Recognition: Developing a Digital Badge Roadmap EDUCAUSE
Higher education institutions are experimenting with the use of digital badges to guide, motivate, document, and validate formal and informal student learning. Digital badging, accompanied with interactive learning designs, provides a digital transcript that highlights a learning narrative that makes competencies, accomplishments, and connections more visible. In this presentation, you’ll learn how digital badging supports learning and motivates students to progress through their courses and programs. The presentation reviews all the components of a badging initiative, but will have participants identify badge components, sketch out their badge constellation, and develop an assessment strategy within the context of a course.
Open Badges for Higher Education - KPU VersionDon Presant
This document discusses the potential uses and benefits of open badges. It provides examples of how open badges can be used to recognize both formal and informal learning across different contexts and sectors. Some key points discussed include:
- Open badges provide micro-credentials that can recognize granular skills and help learners track progress along learning pathways.
- Badges make learning more visible and portable across systems. They provide evidence of skills with links to supporting information.
- Examples are given of how open badges are being used by universities, employers, and training organizations to recognize skills, soft skills, continuing education, and co-curricular learning.
- When combined with ePortfolios, badges can help learners showcase a
A one day design lab to reinvent how we recognize skills across sectors in Ontario. Hosted by eCampusOntario and CanCred.ca.
Presentation by Don Presant, President, Learning Agents/CanCred.ca
Agenda, Open Badges 101, Examples from Elsewhere: Workforce & Open Recognition Ecosystems
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3. The ‘Openness’ Movement
Open Education
Open Learning
Open Online Courses – MOOCs - OpenupEd
Open Educational Resources – OER Africa
Open Licencing – Creative Commons
Open Access Journals - DOAJ
Open Source Software – OSS / FOSS
4. The Concept of Micro-credentials
Competency-based education
Recognize smaller achievements
Can add up to something more
Non-traditional / informal
Gamification:
reward/incentive
strategy
transparency
formal potential?
6. Visual symbol used to:
set goals
motivate behaviours
represent achievement
communicate success
Online representation
within and across
networks & communities
• Free & open
• Transferable
• Stackable
• Evidence-based
Digital Badges Open Badges
7. What information is embedded in a badge?
http://wiki.Mozilla.org/Badges
Elements:
• Issuing organisation
• Badge Design
• Award Criteria
• Issuing System
• Earner
• Display system
8. System Elements
Issuer
•Organisation; Employer; Assessment; Awards badge
Digital Badges
•Badge Design; Criteria;
Earner
•Performs tasks; Display on Profile; Export to storage / display
Storage
•In-house; Open storage system; e.g. Mozilla Backpack
Displayer
•Internal; External; Social site; Link to storage
12. Badges in Moodle (v2.5+)
Badges shown in site profile
Categories: (https://docs.moodle.org/29/en/Badges)
site wide e.g. finishing a set of courses
course specific – related to course specific activities
Fully compatible with Mozilla Open Badges
Export from Moodle to Backpack
Link from Backpack to Moodle site
YouTube demos:
‘How to – Upload your Moodle Badge into your Mozilla Backpack’ (Brenda – 5:07m )
‘Çreate Course Badges’ (Nellie – 19:41min)
Guide – Display your badges on your LinkedIn Profile (Mozilla Open Badges Blog)
13. Example 2: Badges process in Moodle
1. Create your badge (.png image)
2. What does it represent?
name, description, issuing organisation, expiry
3. Criteria for award
4. Who can award? (automated/manual)
5. Message
6. Storage
Internal to system
External - link to Open Backpack
16. Practical considerations for FOLC
Badge Design to reflect organisational branding: Saide using
OpenBadges.me
Award criteria: Facilitating Online Learning course completion
Issuing system: Moodle
Storage and display system: Mozilla backpack
Earners: sub-Saharan Africa academic community
Shared completion criteria & timeframe from course outset
Information provided re Open Digital Badges and ‘how to’
View in Moodle; Save to desktoop
Register for Mozilla Backpack; Export Moodle badge to backpack
17. Outcomes of badge pilot
Participant use:
Huge interest shown in digital badges by participants
12 participants earned the badge
Not all managed to export to backpack
Badge Design:
Easy to use OpenBadges.me
Moodle Badging system:
Upload, embed meta-data, award
Robust – performed exactly as promised
Organisation (Saide)
Digital credentialing approved for further use in capacity building programmes
18. Final Thoughts
The way in which we use digital technology models particular values
for our students and places particular kinds of demands both on
them and on their teachers.
Therefore, we need to make conscious choices to use suitable
digital technologies in appropriate ways taking cognisance of both
our learning purposes and the technology profile of our target
learners and teachers.
Principles:
Embrace the opportunities afforded by ICTs while preserving pedagogical integrity
Promote the opening of education using appropriate supporting ICTs
Use ICTs to support (not drive) the teaching and learning process
Be adaptive to change and mindful of context when utilising supporting ICTs
Build capacity to promote sustainability in changing learning environments
19. Reflection
How does/could this relate to your organisation?
With respect to internal achievements
Providing services
Providing accreditation
Capturing skills not usually represented on certificates
…
Identify an achievement:
for which you could award / have awarded badges
Share with the group in the post-webinar discussion
20. Useful Tools / Projects
Open Badge Designer Tools
OpenBadges.me
OnlineIconMaker
Open Badge Storage:
Mozilla Backpack
Digital Credential Curation & Validation service
BadgeSafe tied to Canvas
BadgeStack tied to WordPress & Credly
Credly – verify, share, manage micro-credentials
DigitalMe – badge design consultancy, badge technology, support
Projects:
BadgeOS (WordPress plugin)
Open Chat about Open Badges Twitter chat at Univ of Sussex TEL
Open Badges South Africa (working group)
21. Thank You
BRENDA MALLINSON
SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/brenda6
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License.
22. Bibliography
Accreditrust (2014) Website
Bernard Bull (2014) How Will Badges and Micro-Credentialing Change Education?
Etale – Life in the Digital World (Blog)
Canvas Network (2014) Badge 101
Credly (2014) Website
News Editor (2013) Professional Examination Service Introduces Digital Micro-
Credentials Learning Solutions Magazine
Jonathan Finkelstein (2012) Digital Badges and Meaningful Microcredentials
EDUCAUSE Library
Moodle.org (2015) https://docs.moodle.org/29/en/Badges
MozillaWiki (2014) Badges
New Media Consortium (2014) Horizon Report - Higher Education Edition
OpenBadges.me (2014) https://www.openbadges.me/
Editor's Notes
The current educational climate is moving towards openness in many respects: Open Educational Resources, Open Access Journals, increased use of good open source software, and increased institutional transparency and flexibility. Together with this has come the notion of life-long learning, informal learning, and increased learner autonomy. One aspect of this are the choices that learners are now empowered to make concerning what, how, and when they learn.
Note: Massive increase in transparency.
This leads to the concept of micro-credentialing – recognition or acknowledgement of small competencies, which may or may not be academic in nature. These small credits may add up to achieving a larger award and facilitating the display of skills that constitute a more rounded individual. Micro-credentialing often provides a more granular and accurate picture of what one has learned than a diploma or ‘whole’ qualification i.e. proficiency in a certain skill
Badges can be awarded by companies and organisations - very specific micro-credentials either as a precursor for, or an add-on to, existing credentials
Gamification mentioned in the 2013&2014&2015 Horizon Report – mid-term horizon
In 2015 as part of open learning adoption – disruptive to traditional HEIs
Strategy used by MOOCs for reward – concept mastery
The development of open digital badge systems is a means through which to digitally award a micro-credit for some competency that has been accomplished by a learner. This award can then be displayed publicly in an online profile or privately within an organisational digital system. The digital badge is a visual symbol used to set goals, motivate behaviour, represent achievement of competency, and importantly, it communicates success in much the same way as physical badges earned previously through social clubs.
Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDmfE0noOJ8 (3.36m) (MacArthur Foundation – original) Video removed to reduce file size
Shorter version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgLLq7ybDtc (2.24m)
A badge is a digital representation of a skill, learning achievement or experience.
Badges can represent competencies and involvements recognized in online or offline life.
Each badge is associated with an image and metadata. The metadata provides information about what the badge represents and the evidence used to support it. Earners can display their badges online and can share badge information through social networks.
Badges are used to set goals, motivate behaviours and communicate success.
They can support learning that happens in new ways, in new spaces beyond the traditional classroom, from online courses to after-school programs to work and life experience.
This motivates learning and signals achievement across communities and institutions. It also provides a more complete picture of learners' skills, achievements and qualities, which can then be communicated to potential employers, educational organizations and communities.
The notion of an ‘open’ badge is that which is transferable between digital / online systems and whose display is managed by the earner. Importantly, the digital badge contains embedded meta-data concerning the name, description, criteria, issuer, earner, date awarded etc.
Open Badges are:
Free and open: Mozilla Open Badges is not proprietary. It’s free software and an open technical standard any organization can use to create, issue and verify digital badges.
Transferable: Collect badges from multiple sources, online and off, into a single backpack. Then display your skills and achievements on social networking profiles, job sites, websites.
Stackable: Whether they’re issued by one organization or many, badges can build upon each other and be stacked to tell the full story of your skills and achievements.
Evidence-based: Open Badges are information-rich. Each badge has important metadata which is hard-coded into the badge image file itself that links back to the issuer, criteria and verifying evidence.
A digital badge is an online representation of a skill you’ve earned. Open Badges take that concept one step further, and allows you to verify your skills, interests and achievements through credible organizations and attaches that information to the badge image file, hard-coding the metadata for future access and review. Because the system is based on an open standard, earners can combine multiple badges from different issuers to tell the complete story of their achievements — both online and off. Badges can be displayed wherever earners want them on the web, and share them for employment, education or lifelong learning.
Open Badges make it easy to: Get recognition for the things you learn; Give recognition for the things you teach; Verify skills; and Display your verified badges across the web.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/
•A badge is more than just a static image - its value comes from the information or "metadata" attached to it.
•This supporting data contained within the badge reduces the risk of abusing the system (e.g., illegitimately copying badges and putting them on your site) and builds in an implicit validation system.
•The metadata may vary based on the particular skill, assessment and issuer.
Open digital badge system elements include: the issuing organisation, the badge design and criteria for award, the issuing system, the earner, and the storage and display systems.
Mozilla Foundation Open Badges project launched in 2011
Purdue Passport - Advocates of open badging systems point to the egalitarian quality of a system where the rules are clear and the platform’s ability to explain much more in the way of accomplishments and goals than a college transcript. Purdue University has developed two mobile apps, Passport and Passport Profile (go.nmc.org/passport), that integrate the Mozilla Open Infrastructure software (go.nmc.org/zonbp). The badging system was adopted by Purdue in order to identify skills that are not represented by a student’s degree, and to provide educators with another outlet to recognize student accomplishment and concept mastery.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges – Open badge help you share your interests and skills with the world.
Note: Personal management
Earn from: job training, online learning, volunteer program to backpack
Display from backpack web presences (LinkedIn, FaceBook, etc) share with your personal networks
Examples of Moodle badge meta-data
Example of Accreditrust Badge meta-data on Mozilla backpack – Palisades84
Badges are a good way of celebrating achievement and showing progress.
2 way compatibility with Mozilla – export Moodle badges to your Mozilla backpack, and link to your backpack to display your backpack badges on your Moodle site via your user profile.
Backpack connection
If the email address a user has for Moodle is the same as their Open Badges email address, then they will be automatically connected here and may choose to disconnnect if they wish. If the email address a user has for Moodle is not the same, then they can add the email address which will connect them to their backpack. They can then choose to "push" to their backpack badges which they have earned on Moodle. The badge must then be added to a public collection for it to be visible on their Moodle profile.
DEMO – in Saide Moodle (5m)
Badge details:
Name, description, Created on, Image, Issuer details, Badge expiry, Criteria, who can award? recipients …
Badge design using openBadges.me
Organisation: Saide
Earners: sub-Saharan Africa academic community
Open digital badge system elements include: the issuing organisation, the badge design and criteria for award, the issuing system, the earner, and the storage and display systems. In this pilot exploration of awarding open badges, the system elements were: Saide (issuing organisation), the badge was designed in-house using an open design system OpenBadges.me, awarded via the Moodle learning management system, the criteria were for completion of the ‘Facilitating Online Learning’ fully online course on Moodle, and the earners were the course participants drawn from the sub-Saharan Africa academic community. As an aside to the course, the participants were informed about open digital badges and their uses, and instructed on how to register a Mozilla Backpack for storage and display. They were fully aware from the outset of the course what the criteria for completion were, and the time frame within which to earn the credential. They were also shown how to save and export their Moodle badge earned in the course to an online storage system.
The interest shown in the badging system was considerable, and many, but not all, the participants managed to export their badges for display. This would enable the participants to flexibly display their badges online, thereby providing evidence of increased digital competency via both the medium and the message. The Moodle badging system proved to be robust and delivered as specified. The Saide course facilitators found the digital badges very easy to design and implement in Moodle, and the future use of this form of digital credentialing was approved for further use in Saide capacity building courses and workshops.
Preserve the integrity of the teaching and learning process and environment by using ICT to support (not drive) teaching and learning
Employ flexibility to ensure the ICT support is appropriate for: the topic, level of study, student context and the expertise of the teachers / tutors / learners
Take a few moments to reflect – will feed into later online discussion
OpenBadges.me is open access; Online Icon Maker is a free trial; But you can use any graphics tool- must save as a .png file
BadgeSafe developing their Badge Vault – Accreditrust
Credly - platforms for verifying, sharing and managing digital badges and credentials
BadgeOS™ is a powerful free plugin to WordPress that lets you easily create achievements and issue sharable badges as your users succeed.
See DigitalMe’s badge design canvas: http://www.digitalme.co.uk/assets/pdf/DigitalMe-Badge-Design-Canvas-(1).pdf