This document summarizes an open badge design workshop. The workshop covers open badges 101, badge system design, badge content design, badge brand design, and a badge pitch session. Attendees will learn about designing open badges, including identifying appropriate badges, creating a flexible badge system, and establishing a consistent badge brand. The workshop also provides information on open badge projects and getting started with the badge design process.

1. Open Badge Design Workshop
Lucy Neale
@lucydme
Grainne Hamilton
@grainnehamilton

2. Creating a new learning
currency which recognises
people’s skills and
achievements

3. 09.00 Open Badges 101
10.00 Badge System Design
11.00 Break
11.30 Badge Content Design
12.15 Badge Brand Design
12.45 Badge Pitch!
13.15 Next Steps

7. Mozilla Open
Badges: a web
standard which
captures &
communicates skills

9. http://openbadges.org

10. Silo 1 Silo 2
Silo 4
Formal
qualifications
After school
club certificates
Online
learning
Silo 3
Professional
development

11. CC BY-SA Kyle Bowen

13. www.backpack.openbadges.org

15. 120 partners

16. Worldwide adoption

17. March 2015:
- 14,000 Issuers Worldwide
- 2 Million Badges Issued
- 342,300 Badges sent to backpacks
- 88,585 backpacks

19. Badge Design Process
2. Identify
Badge
Tech
3. Create your badges
7. Track engagement
and create pathways
4. Learners
take your
badges
6. Badges
assessed &
Awarded
5. Learners create
and add evidence
“At the forefront of
the Open Badges
movement”
Mark Surman - Mozilla
1. Badge
learning
design

20. Employer
ExpertPeer

21. Open Badge projects
Over 300,000 people are learning more with digital badges

26. Mozilla Discovery Project
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• Badge-based pathways to employment

27. Employer pathways
27
• Pathway templates

28. Employer pathways
28
• Pathway templates

29. Employer pathways
29
• Pathway logic

30. Employer pathways
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• Using a pathway as an issuer– Create a pathway template that makes suggestions for
particular jobs
– Creates a clear statement about the employer’s needs
– Provides opportunity to highlight badges linked to
learning opportunities, eg Mozilla Web Literacy badges

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• Career trees
Employer pathways

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• Using a pathway as an earner / prospective
employee
– Fill in pathways with badges
– Tell their story
– Set goals (unearned badges)
– Plan a career
– Copy pathways to explore options
Earner / employee pathways

33. Mozilla Discovery Tool
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• Web based tool for discovering / completing
pathways

34. Jisc RSC Scotland
• Issuing badges to:
»Accredit the acquisition and
application of digital skills
»Recognise contribution to the
learning of others
»Reward the sharing of practice
»Increase the learning of the
sector
»Motivate engagement with Jisc
services
Recognising digital skills development
From Flickr by justus.thane
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35. Jisc RSC Scotland
Digital
Innovator
• iTechs
• Forums
• Webinars
Digital
Leadership
• OBSEG
Members
• Open Badges
Design Day
• Assessment
Summit
Digital
Practitioner
• Learning
OnLine
courses
• F2F
workshops
• Day events
• Open Badge Series
35

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37. Getting started
37
• Design considerations and tools
Key considerations include:
»Badge system design
»Badge content design
»Badge brand design
Cycle through these to ensure:
»Appropriate badges
»A flexible badge system
»Consistent badge brand

38. Group Activity – Badge Themes
 Introduce yourself
 Discuss your interest in badges
• Post-its activity:
 Write your name on a post-it
 Write something you would like to recognize via badges
 Stick post-its on wall
 Re-arrange post-its into common themes
• Get into groups based on areas of interest / themes
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39. Badge system design
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• Considerations
»What do you want to
badge and why?
»List the badges you
would create
»Ensure your badge
system can grow
»Think about
constellations and
pathways
From Flickr by Kris Williams

40. Badge content design
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• Considerations
»Who is your badge is for?
»Why would someone want to earn the badge?
»What:
› Skills / Attributes / Understanding are represented by the badge?
› Behaviours do you want to encourage?
› Criteria is required to earn the badge?
› Evidence will be linked to (if at all)?
› Modes of assessment are appropriate?
› Endorsement agreements, channels will you use?
› Systems, tags, sustainability requirements are there?

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42. Badge brand design
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• Considerations
»How will the badge visual
design represent you?
»What consistent visual
identifiers will you use for
key elements of your
badges?
»Who will design your
badge brand design?
»What systems or tools will
you use to design your
badge?

44. Badge Design Process
2. Identify
Badge
Tech
3. Create your badges
7. Track engagement
and create pathways
4. Learners
take your
badges
6. Badges
assessed &
Awarded
5. Learners create
and add evidence
“At the forefront of
the Open Badges
movement”
Mark Surman - Mozilla
1. Badge
learning
design

45. Free €€€ DIY
http://unique.learningbadges.eu

46. What are you…
Excited about?
Concerned about?
What would you like to explore further?

47. www.digitalme.co.uk
http://www.badgealliance.org/
http://www.rsc-scotland.org/
http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/