George Bernard Shaw said that if two people exchange ideas, then each person will have two ideas. The document discusses Mozilla's open badges infrastructure, which allows for alternative credentialing through digital badges. Badges provide portable, micro-credentials that represent skills and achievements, and help capture learning pathways outside traditional education models. The infrastructure supports issuing, verifying, and displaying badges through platforms like Moodle and Mahara.

1. "If you have an apple and I have an apple and
we exchange these apples then you and I will
still each have one apple. But if you have an idea
and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas,
then each of us will have two ideas." - George
Bernard Shaw

2. Introduction

3. Why Open Badges?

4. What’s new? Happens now, right?

5. Mozilla’s Open Badges
Infrastructure
• Infrastructure for alternative credentialing
 Modern society demands new and dynamic skills and
literacies. Requires innovation and flexibility in
learning environments
• An indicator of accomplishment, skill or quality
• Networked = portability
• Learners centered - multiple learning pathways
to build skills, experiences and competencies
• More micro than educational certifications

7. • Capture the learning pathway
• Badges can be more granular, aligned to a
specific achievement
• Portable, alternative certification model(s)

8. • Perceived value will differ based on the
“use case”, i.e. the context or
community;
Education
Professional bodies
Peer to peer recognition
Corporate, workplace learning

9. Metadata – just the beginning…
• Who was the Issuer?
• Issue date
• Brief description of how badge was earned
• URIs to artefacts, testimonials etc.
• Web service for verification.
 “Did the Issuer issue the badge?”
 “Is it still valid?”

10. Overview on what we’re doing

11. Badges project timelines

12. Moodle as Issuer – Set-up

13. Badge “baking” – adding a badge

14. Criteria
Access
Expiry

15. Flexibility and automatic management
• Leverage Totara Activity and/or course completion to issue
Badges – enables very flexible criteria;
 E.g. viewing a web page or completing a field in your
profile
 Replying to a specific forum post
 Course completeion, activity completion, and also manual
issuing badges

16. Issuing a badge with message

17. The Learner Earns and Displays badges

18. Not only in the LMS

21. Mahara as a
backpack provider?
• OBI provides an open
infrastructure that will
underpin presentation of
work – e.g. CPD certification
• A badge backpack / Mahara
combination will enable you
 to display and collate badges
 click through to more detailed
levels of evidence and
explanation

22. Mahara as Issuer?
• Lightweight grading system?

23. What might happen next?
http://neilhammond.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/open-
badges-visual-design-and-semantic.html
 Evolve, impact on formal education
 Employers & learners may prefer it to standard CV
structures

24. Questions?