Full title: "Breaking through to Open Learning by Unbundling Achievements" presentation for OpenEd 13

1. Breaking
through
to
Open
Learning
Poten2al
by
Unbundling
Achievements
Dr.
Deborah
Everhart,
Director
of
Integra2on
Strategy,
Blackboard,
and
Adjunct
Assistant
Professor,
Georgetown
University
Emily
Goligoski,
Product
+
Design
Researcher,
Mozilla
Founda2on
Anne
Derryberry,
Associate,
Sage
Road
Solu2ons
LLC,
www.imserious.net

2. Alterna2ve
Models
of
Postsecondary
Educa2on
are
Gaining
Trac2on
• Post-­‐tradi2onal
student
popula2ons
expect
educa2on
that
is
flexible,
relevant,
and
meaningful.
• The
public’s
interest
in
MOOCs
is
bringing
aRen2on
to
online
learning.
• Expecta2ons
of
ins2tu2onal
accountability
have
amplified
ques2ons
about
whether
and
how
universi2es
should
be
“scored.”
• The
“2cking
2me
bomb”
of
American
student
loan
debt
is
changing
consumer
aWtudes
about
the
value
of
educa2on.

3. New
opportuni2es
have
emerged
from
changing
expecta2ons
• Evalua2ng
and
awarding
credit
for
student
learning,
wherever
and
however
it
has
been
acquired
• Degrees
and
cer2ficates
based
on
credits
from
courses
as
well
as
from
assessment
of
prior
learning,
community
service,
and
student
porYolios
• Alterna2ve
creden2als
that
recognize
demonstrated
competencies
verified
through
direct
assessment

4. New
opportuni2es
have
emerged
from
changing
expecta2ons
• In
some
voca2onal
areas,
the
source
of
learning
is
insignificant
in
comparison
to
the
verified
ability
to
perform
a
specific
skill
or
job.
• Badges
provide
discrete,
portable
evidence
of
learning
and
skills.
• Alterna2ve
creden2als
and
micro-­‐creden2als
vary
broadly
in
their
quality
and
applicability
to
higher
educa2on;
some
may
displace
the
need
to
earn
an
en2re
degree.

5. Badges.Coursesites.com

6. No badge is an island.
No credential stands
alone.
Credentials work within
a complex ecosystem.

7. Open
Badges
Ecosystem
• Primary
Stakeholders
– Learners/
Job
Seekers
– Learning
Providers
and
Assessors
– Employers
and
other
Badge
Consumers
• Key
Components
– Verifica2on
– Authen2ca2on
– Valida2on

8. Learners/
Job
Seekers

9. Learning
Providers
and
Assessors

10. Verifica2on

11. Employers
and
Other
Badge
Consumers

12. Authen2ca2on

13. Standards
Organiza2ons

14. Valida2on

16. 8
one summer
eight weeks!

17. 1
one primary focus:
address summer drop-off

18. 5
five organizing principles
S-T-E-A-M

19. 100
one hundred+ organizations
three core team members!

20. 3
three levels
entry, city, challenges

22. 29029
why climb the mountain?
because it’s there.

24. 11,800,000 unemployed
What’s going on??
3,000,000 unfilled jobs

25. 25

26. • Employers are dealing with...
jobs go unfilled because qualified candidates
cannot be found i.e. “the skills gap”
job posting sites don’t work
high school and college do not provide skills
needed for current job market
job-oriented trainers and employers have no easy
way to connect or coordinate in the market
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27. • Solution: a new way to hire
based on job-skills, representing 15 entry level
industries and 150 entry level jobs
job skills embodied in Mozilla open badges,
providing a common asset to define jobs, training,
and qualifications
recommendations and endorsements used to
submit applicants, reducing resume fatigue
leveraging video to show work, providing much
richer understanding of the job & applicant
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28. Health Care
Industry
Patient Transporter
Job
Skill
Skill
• Patient Transport
◦ Assist patients in and out of bed, examination tables, surgical tables, or stretchers
◦ Safely operate transport devices including wheelchairs and stretchers
◦ Position or hold patients in position for surgical preparation
◦ Answer patient call signals, signal lights, bells, or intercom systems to determine
patients' needs
• Infection Control
◦ Disinfect or sterilize equipment or supplies, using germicides or sterilizing equipment
◦ Clean hands with antimicrobial soap before and after patient contact
◦ Proper selection and use of PPE Barriers (i.e. masks, gloves, gowns)
◦ Knowledge of hospital transport routes and procedures that minimize risk of
transmission to other patients, staff, and guests
Skill
• CPR Certified
◦ Check for consciousness
◦ Restore blood circulation with chest compressions
◦ Clear airway using the head-tilt, chin-lift maneuver
◦ Apply rescue breathing techniques
Skill
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• Physically Fit
◦ Lift, carry, and transport patients of various body weights
◦ Ability to walk long distances
◦ Ability to be on feet for long hours

29. You can see your pathway.
Apprentice
Electrical Apprentice
Fusion OEM
Assembler
Engineer
Electrical Assembler
Electrical Engineer
Fusion OEM
Fusion OEM
- EE Degree
You have a choice.
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30. Learning provides a perspective for all.
Job Opening
Candidate
Instructor
Electrical Assembler
Timothy Chase
Joe Garcia
Fusion OEM
Electrical apprentice
workforce solutions
I train people on:
“Timothy is a hard worker and
pleasure to be around.”
- Joe Hanky
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31. • Gaining traction...
Chicago: 50,000 accounts supporting summer jobs
program, ICNC partnership, FusionOEM, others
Baltimore: Harbor Point, Harbor East developments
Grand Rapids: pilot with community college and local
workforce collaborative in manufacturing and
healthcare
New Orleans: Invitation from economic development
to align trainers and employers in key sectors
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32. • Badges
issued
iden2fy
Veterans’
military
training
and
present
that
training
to
prospec2ve
employers
in
the
form
of
digital
badges.
• Veterans
Unemployment
Issues
• Veteran
unemployment
numbers
typically
10-­‐30%
higher
than
civilian
contemporaries.
• Ease
of
use
• Protect
Veterans
privacy

33. • Engaged
47
Hiring
Officials
and
257
Veterans
• Majori2es
of
both
Veterans
(70%)
and
poten2al
employers
(74%)
reported
that
they
would
use
and
encourage
use
of
digital
badges
in
Veterans’
applica2ons.
• Veteran
and
employer
groups
shared
concerns
that
use
of
badges
is
rela2vely
novel
and
unfamiliar,
worried
that
badges
may
be
viewed
as
"gimmicky“
and
that
over-­‐reliance
on
technology
may
adversely
impact
human
interac2on
parts
of
the
hiring
process

34. The
Manufacturing
Ins2tute
(NAM)
• Define
competencies
important
to
various
manufacturing
sub-­‐sectors
• Use
badges
to
visually
represent
competencies
• Badges
recognize
prior
learning
and
on-­‐the-­‐job
training
• Ties
directly
into
jobs
and
advancement

35. Workforce: Manufacturing Institute

36. Workforce: Manufacturing Institute

37. 2mbetterfutures.org

38. Badges.Coursesites.com