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.

1. Enabling & Empowering Staff & Students to Flourish
in the Digital Age

2. The Challenge:
◦ Improving the confidence as well as the skills/competences of staff
(academic and non-academic) and students
◦ Technology can be intimidating for many
◦ Formal training can be inflexible and costly (time and money!)
Digital Skills/Literacies Frameworks?
◦ Many already exist (reviewed over 60!)
◦ Tend to be formal, detailed, prescriptive
Our approach?
◦ Try to be more participatory, collaborative
◦ Capture imagination, sense of fun as well as achievement
◦ Use technologies to support skills development

3. CC-BY-2.0, flickr, Nikos Koutoulas
Digital Skills Framework

4. Developing a national Digital
Skills Framework for Irish HE
Producing and Developing
Training Resources
Piloting Open Badges in HE
Facilitating Events,
campaigns, workshops,
partnerships
Iain Mac Labhrainn, Blaneth McSharry
Gobnait O’Riordan, Aoife Geraghty, Liz Dore
Áine Galvin, Leone Gately, Jonathan Flynn
Anne O’Keeffe, Deirdre Ryan

5. Navigating the
Digital Skills
Framework
CC-BY-2.0, flickr, Hans Dinkelberg

6. CC-BY-2.0, flickr, Rachel Samanyi
Badges

7. Open Badges
Using Digital Badges to mark achievement in the Skills Framework
BUT also using badges for lots of other activities:
• Helps spread and embed the concept of badging
• Also increases ‘routine’ use of a key set of technologies
• Links digital confidence/competence with personal, professional
development
• Links with broader agenda of CPD for academics
• Links with ‘Graduate Attributes’ of students

8. Badge Examples
Outreach, Volunteering &
Communications
Non-formal & Informal CPD
Skills Development embedded in
courses
Study Skills
Employability & Leadership
Graduate Attributes

9. Criteria, issuing
Open Badge Factory
+ Institutional VLEs
Policy & Guidelines

10. Capturing badges, storing CVs,
linking to publications and
allowing re-export to other
platforms (eg LinkedIn),
embedding in websites, etc.
Compliance with OBI
Open Badge Passport
Personal Profiles

11. Student Partnership
CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0, flickr, Mariusz Kluzniak

12. Recruitment, selection, training and awards
◦ Working with students
◦ Working with staff/services
◦ Creating Content
Workshops
◦ Digital Identity & Wellbeing
◦ Social Media
◦ Content Creation:
◦ Infographics, Blogging, Podcasts

13. DIGITAL CHAMPIONS
Develop and showcase your digital skills
http://www.digichampsnuig.com/

14. Meanwhile, in Limerick….

15. CC-BY-2.0, flickr, Greg Neate
Content, Technologies & Processes

16. Content development
Workflow
◦ Curator for each line
◦ Creative workshops
◦ ‘Open Curriculum’
◦ Lesson ‘descriptor’
◦ LOs, Learner Activities, Media/Content, Assessment,
Badge Criteria
◦ Style Guide/Template
◦ Packaged (SCORM/Tin Can)
◦ Review & Revise
◦ Batch release

17. Technologies
WP based website (HEAnet hosted)
◦ Self-assessment tool
◦ Page per ‘station’
◦ Online lessons, resource packs, introductory video, posters, links and Badge Criteria
◦ Metro ‘Travelcards’
◦ Collections of lessons/mini-course/curriculum
◦ Number of different perspectives:
◦ Intended audience
◦ Skillset
◦ Links with disciplines/subjects
◦ Resource packs for T&L and LT units/colleagues
◦ Devolved badge issuing rights (criteria/rubric)
◦ Downloadable in SCORM/Tin Can API/zip packages
◦ Can deploy in any VLE/LMS
◦ LearnDash/Grassblade (LRS) for individual study
Open Badge Factory for issuing/tracking
◦ Integrates with WP, Bb, Moodle, etc
◦ Allows sub-issuers at institution level
◦ Conforms to open standards and seamless link with Open Badge Passport (Salava – open
source)
Content Authoring
◦ ‘Open Curriculum’ approach
◦ Prioritisation/development sequence via survey/consultation
◦ Articulate Storyline for core materials
◦ Evaluation of Adapt (advantages for mobile platforms, etc) & Adobe Articulate
◦ Style Guide and learner activity models
◦ Repurposing/remixing

18. For further information:
http://www.allaboardhe.org
Email: iain.maclaren@nuigalway.ie