Open badges intro and badge system design

OPEN
BADGES
for AIESEC
Introduced by BADGECRAFT Agne Rapalaite and Laimonas Ragauskas
www.badgecraft.eu

@Badgecraft
#OpenBadges
BADGECRAFT www.badgecraft.eu

WHO ARE WE?
• Badgecraft is a company aiming to
provide opportunities for
recognising achievements by using
Open badges
• We are coming from the fields of
education & IT and aiming to blend
the two for creating badging
experiences for our clients.

CHALLENGES
in EDUCATION
and
RECOGNITION
www.badgecraft.eu

Degree
Diploma
Certificate
Courses
without
certificates
● Unknown skills
● Hard to get evidence
● Hardly moves across diverse
systems

Degree
Diploma
Certificate
Courses
without
certificates
● Hierarchical structures and old
style unreliable assessment
methods
● Excluding diverse learning
providers and non-linear learning
pathways
● Unclear quantitative indication
(marks)
● Can’t be indexed and shared
online

WHAT IS AN OPEN BADGE

• Visual representation – digital image and
integrated meta-data
• It is free and open technical standard –any
user can earn, manage and display these
badges all across the web
• Aims to build shared ecosystem using the
same infrustructre across different platforms

• Whether they’re issued by one organization or
many, badges can build upon each other,
joining together to tell the full story of skills
and other learning achievements.
• Users have an easy way to collect their
badges in a single backpack, and display their
learning achievements on social networking
profiles, job sites, their websites and more.

OPEN BADGES IN NUMBERS
By May 2014 there were...
• 14 000 issuers, who...
• issued more than 1 million badges and...
• 4 million expected to be issued by the end of
2014 and…
• 10 million by the end of 2016, out of those…
• 1 million expected to be issued in Europe

FIND A BADGE WHICH…
http://discover.openbadges.org/badge/
- Has an icon that represents the content very well
- A badge that is dedicated for PARTICIPATION
- A badge that describes an ACHIEVEMENT
- A badge that describes a concrete COMPETENCE (skill, knowledge,
change of behaviour)
- A badge that describes a QUALITY of a person
- A badge with an ATTRACTIVE NAME
- A badge with an INFOMATIVE NAME
- A Badge with an ATTRACTIVE CONTENT
- A Badge with an INFORMATIVE/CONCRETE CONTENT
Collect a list of key words used to decribe a badge (badge confirms… Person
owning this badge… Badge indicates…)

DESCRIBING AN OPEN BADGE
NAME*
DESCRIPTION*
CRITERIA*
*obligatory

NAME
Give your new badge the name that will be clear
to others and tell something what it is about.
- funny?
- serious?
- attractive?
- relevant

DESCRIPTION
Describe what you want to achieve and represent
with your Open Badge (e.g. new knowledge,
developed skills, changed attitudes or behaviours)
- This badge shows.../ The owner of this badge
is…
- Tell the truth!

CRITERIA
Identify what you need to do in order to complete
the learning related to your badge.
- Specific quests or tasks person had to complete
- How will you know if the person completed the
tasks?

BUILD YOUR BADGE SYSTEM

Define your key objectives
• What challenges badge system should solve?
• What should it help to achieve?
• What kind of behaviour should it promote in
learners?

Develop draft Skills Tree

• Start with a Skills Tree
• Define one competence in details: what are the
skills, knowledge, attitudes, which will be
developed throughout the project
• Draw skills tree for that one competence:
• What is the sequence?
• How different skills/ attitudes are interlinked?
• Will you come back to the same skill?
• What about levels?

BADGE DESIGN PRINCIPLES
1. Use badges to map learning trajectories
2. Align badges to standards
3. Have experts issue badges
4. Seek external backing.
5. Recognize diverse learning.
Source: http://www.hastac.org/blogs/andirehak/2013/05/20/digital-badge-design-principles-recognizing-
learning

BADGE DESIGN PRINCIPLES
6. Use badges as a means of external
communication of knowledge and/or skills.
7. Make badges permanent.
8. Recognize educator learning as well.
9. Award formal academic credit for badges.

THANK
YOU!
Laimonas Ragauskas, Agne Rapalaite @Badegcraft #OpenBadges
Badgecraft www.badgecraft.eu

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