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Open badges
This document discusses the concept of open badges as a means to represent and verify digital skills earned by individuals, emphasizing their potential to motivate learners and showcase competencies. It outlines the types of badges, their opportunities and challenges, and describes specific initiatives by Staffordshire University to implement a pilot project for digital skills development through badges. Recommendations for designing and awarding badges, as well as tools and resources for implementation, are also provided.
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- 1. Open Badges fordigital skills: Opportunities and Challenges Julie Adams, Staffordshire University 2 June, 2014
- 2. What badges usedto be… Image from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/5238425/in/
- 3. Digital badges: “ anonline representation of a skill you’ve earned” Open Badges take the idea further: – skills are verified through a credible organisation.
- 4. Open Badges Led byMozilla Organisation Open, online standard Images with Metadata hard- coded into them Recognise formal or informal learning Badges from multiple sources stored in single backpack Share through social networks
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- 6. Ultimately, a badgeis just one credential, one assertion of what we know. But, added together from different contexts across society, they tell a story about us that’s backed by a lot of people, and says, “this is what I can do.” Mozilla Blog, 12 February 2014 https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/02/12/how-were-making-education-more-like- the-web/
- 7. Types and granularityof badges “Smaller” badges Motivation and feedback Less time- intensive behaviours or achievements. “Larger” badges Can be used for certification purposes. More rigorous or defined assessments Basic or foundational badges Entry-level framework for acquiring skills. Prerequisites for higher level badges Intermediate and expert level badges Provide pathways and milestones to guide learners Unlocking higher levels can help motivate engagement. Higher-level “meta badges” Aggregate of multiple badges Represent more complex literacies or competencies Based on information from http://openbadges.org/faq/
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- 9. Opportunities Challenges Too many? Trivial? Consistency? Crediblewith employers? Stand out from peers Picture of whole person Show what someone can do Motivate
- 10. Recent developments • Endorsementof badges: – External party recognises value of the badge and the rigour of processes applied in developing and issuing it. • Badge Alliance: – Independent of Mozilla – Brings together organisations and individuals to take the badge ecosystem forward.
- 11. What we aredoing at Staffs • Up to now: – InfoZone: Library and IT induction – Attendance at TeachMeets • From September 2014: – Pilot project in conjunction with ‘Get a better grade’ workshops.
- 12. Get a bettergrade… • Addresses digital skills: – Library/research, IT, academic study skills – Developmental programme throughout the year • Align to Staffs Graduate Attribute: – “technologically, digitally and information literate” – Complementary to curriculum • Badges for successful workshop assessment – Individual badges – Meta/”gold” badges if attend given number
- 13. The process Planning essential! Beclear on what you want to achieve: what badges and why? Define criteria/definition of achievement in order to earn a badge Decide on look and feel for your badges - consistent branding Decide mechanism for designing/ awarding badges
- 14. Some tools tohelp • Jisc Open Badge Design toolkit http://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/media/421718/jiscopenbadgesdesigntoolkit-print_1.pdf
- 15. • Indiana UniversityDesign Principles documentation http://iudpd.indiana.edu/HomePage • Card deck • Design principle strands for Learning with digital badges – Recognising – Motivating – Assessing – Studying
- 16. How? Plug-ins for existingsystems e.g. WordPress, Moodle, Blackboard Mozilla BadgeKit: http://badgekit.openbadges.org/ Some others: Badges for all: https://badges.forallschools.com/ Credly: http://credly.com Cloudworks: http://cloudworks.ac.uk/badge/badge_list
- 17. Open Badges andBlackboard • Achievements Building Block: badges or certificates – Instructors create badges in courses. – Learners can claim badges – Display learner badges from Mozilla backpack Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr6DKgx4sH8
- 18. WordPress: Our currentmethod… • Set up blog to use for awarding badges • Create images in liaison with Marketing • Create Badge in WordPress • Create Award for this badge • Email sent to participants • They click link to accept badge • Go to Mozilla site • Add badge to backpack (or create new one) http://blogs.staffs.ac.uk/isbadges
- 19. What badges looklike OER-101 is an open-access, self-paced online "Community Course" http://beta.openbadges.org/share/50b0176dea5e93e98986b9a0e9602222/
- 20. Some useful links Earna badge: http://openbadges.org/ What is a badge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgLLq7ybDtc More about Open Badges: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges Open Badges blog: http://openbadges.tumblr.com/ Badge the UK: http://www.digitalme.co.uk/badgetheuk/ JISC RSCs: Scotland: http://www.rsc-scotland.org/?page_id=2223 Northern: http://www.jiscrscopenbadges.org.uk/northern/
- 21. Open Badges fordigital skills: Opportunities and Challenges Julie Adams, Academic Skills Tutor (IT)/Teaching Fellow j.f.adams@staffs.ac.uk
Editor's Notes
- #18 The Achievements tool allows instructors and course designers to designate criteria for issuing rewards to students in the form of both Badges and Certificates. Students can see which rewards they’ve earned and what is required of them to receive additional rewards, providing insight into learning progression toward defined competencies. Students are able to publish badges to the Mozilla Open Backpack, transporting evidence of their learning outside of Blackboard Learn. Instructors can easily see which students have reached learning milestones. Achievements Description The achievements description describes the achievement and identifies the criteria students must meet to receive a reward. There are three achievement types: Course Completion – The Certificate reward is required; an additional Badge is optional. Milestone –The reward can only be a Badge. Custom –Badges, Certificates, or both are allowed. Achievements is built upon the content Adaptive Release technology of Blackboard Learn. Criteria supported by Adaptive Release are supported for the awarding of an Achievement. This currently includes the following: Attempts on test, surveys or assignments Grades on tests, surveys, assignments, graded discussion boards, graded wikis, graded blogs, graded journals Manual Grade Center columns Marked Reviewed statuses on course content Group membership or specific users Starting date for earning the Achievement Reward Each achievement must have at least one reward identified during set up. The reward is the item awarded upon meeting the required criteria. It is given in the form of Badges and Certificates. Digital Badges are an online representation of a mastered skill or completed educational milestone. It is a digitally signed and verified badge that can’t be copied and used by a different learner. The issuer, the organization granting the badge, maintains ownership of the badge and can remove it from the recipient’s backpack if it is no longer valid due to expiry or revocation. The description and criteria for earning the badge are digitally encoded in the badge so others viewing the badge can see how it was earned. To learn more about Open Badges and Mozilla Open Backpack, see http://www.openbadges.org/about/. For Badges, a library of existing badges is available along with the option to upload a custom badge. For Certificates, a small library of certificate formats is presented; there is no option for a customized certificate format in this release. Notification Students are notified immediately if they have received an Achievement reward. This appears as an overlay notification at the top of the page they are currently viewing. It is possible the student will receive the reward when s/he is elsewhere in the course because an instructor graded an item or manually entered a grade. The overlay notification will appear wherever the student may be within the course. If the student is issued the Achievement reward while not in that Blackboard course (they are offline or in a different course), the notification will appear upon next access of the course in which the Achievement reward was issued. They will also receive a new Update message in My Blackboard indicating that they have earned a new achievement in their course(s). Within a course, the student can see all earned Achievements as well as those not yet earned. Instructors can look at each individual Achievement and easily see the total number and the names of students who have earned a reward or completed the course. Sharing When allowed, students can publish their earned Badges to their Mozilla Open Badges Backpack. To learn more about Open Badges and Mozilla Open Backpack, see http://www.openbadges.org/about/. For earned Certificates, students can view and print the Certificate which displays the issuer name, the course title, their name, and the date earned.