Open Badges and Agile Workforce Development
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This document discusses open badges and agile workforce development. It provides an overview of open badges, including their history and uses. Open badges can recognize both formal and informal learning, provide portable credentials, and help learners showcase skills and achievements. The document also discusses how various organizations have implemented open badges for purposes like continuing education, professional development, and skills recognition.
Open Badges and Agile Workforce Development
- 1. Continuing Education and Training Association of BC May 19, 2017 Open Badges and Agile Workforce Development Presentation support page: http://bit.ly/openbadges4he Notes from the 2017 BC Open Badges Forum: bit.ly/BC2017-Notes
- 2. Volatile ~ Uncertain ~ Complex ~ Ambiguous A VUCA world sceptrefellows
- 6. The (US) Adult Market from a PACE perspective bit.ly/MadisonBadgesApr2017 Adult student needs, leveraging lifewide learning Lack of evaluation system to link non-credit coursework to credit credentials 20.8m students in non-credit programs The constant need to upskill Freelance workers lack access to employer training Growing employer acceptance of alternative credentials
- 7. (Help me …) SWOT for PACE/CT STRENGTHS Autonomy within institution (some) Institutional brand Institutional resources WEAKNESSES Not always on institutional radar re needs Volatile governance/business models OPPORTUNITIES Skills agenda(s) BC-CSD? Partnerships with associations Partnerships with industry Online delivery New revenue streams THREATS Disruptive technologies Disruptive business models Competitors out of nowhere
- 9. Technology skills are in demand, but they change fast! slideshare.net/linkedin
- 10. The future of jobs World Economic Forum: Future Of Jobs 2016 Across nearly all industries, the impact of technological and other changes is shortening the shelf-life of employees’ existing skill sets. Overall, social skills—such as persuasion, emotional intelligence and teaching others—will be in higher demand across industries than narrow technical skills Top 10 Skills in 2020 1. Complex problem solving 2. Critical thinking 3. Creativity 4. People management 5. Coordinating with others 6. Emotional intelligence 7. Judgment & decision making 8. Service orientation 9. Negotiation 10.Cognitive flexibility
- 11. WEF: Recommendations for Action Make HR more strategic – get in front of trends Inform decisions with data analytics Implement more flexible, virtual work models World Economic Forum: Future Of Jobs 2016 SHORT TERM LONG TERM Break down educational silos: • Humanities/Sciences, education/work (WIL, etc.) Incentivize lifelong learning (time, motivation, means) Collaborate across sectors
- 12. Calling for a common language for competencies cwf.ca
- 13. Outcomes over inputs Emerging: Competency Based Learning hbr.org “… high-quality learning pathways that are affordable, scalable, and tailored to a wide variety of current and emergent industries, based on competencies, not courses.” ingegno.in
- 14. 70: 20: 10 L-i-f-e-w-i-d-e learning deakinprime.com / wikipedia.org The LIFE Center
- 15. Key findings about non-completion: 1. Many non-completers had significant earnings gains 2. Economic value: content vs. credential 3. Non-completers are “non-traditional” students 4. Unknown factor: value of 3rd party credentials Study: Program completion stats miss the point! “The ones that got away” – a solution in hiding? WestEd Slideshare
- 16. www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/verify/HDDAGRLXE4 verify.edx.org/cert/5d882acb67b64425a3355cd73954dd6c Disruption: MOOCs and micro-credentials
- 17. Disruption: Education à la carte www.udacity.com/nanodegree
- 18. Disruption: WIL-based Degree Apprenticeships bit.ly/OUDegreeAppr
- 19. Disruption: Experiential Learning at Scale riipen.com
- 20. Disruption: LinkedIn Learning linkedin.com slideshare.net/LinkedIn gov.on.ca
- 21. Ontario’s call to action rethinking … learning resources credentials the learning experience David Porter, BC Open Badges Forum
- 22. How do we more broadly address the experiential learning desires of students? Driving growth and innovation through technology-enabled learning eCampus Ontario How do we provide students with relevant real-world projects as practical experiences? How to we allow employers to audition student talent while the students are still in school? How can we provide self-managed environments for supporting experiential learning? David Porter, BC Open Badges Forum
- 23. Paper silos: Issues with certification today freedesignfile.com/92259 Transparency issues • “Dumb” paper often needs other documents, e.g. syllabus • Proxy only – not the whole story • Easy to forge Physical issues • Difficult to share, easy to lose Recognition issues • Lack of granularity • Lack of context - no links to supporting evidence • Experiential learning not valued • Lack of alignment, transfer, articulation, “stackability”
- 24. Example: Transcript for graduate employability ccr.utoronto.ca
- 25. Trends in professional credentialing Use technology to: •reduce waste (paper, effort) •increase quality Re-use credential information for: •onboarding •HR planning •performance review •accreditation •Quality Assurance, systemic analysis Enable continuous credentialing SEER Health: The Future of Provider Credentialing
- 27. Clear progress markers motivating learners, supporting advisors Flexible learning pathways granular, incremental, multi-source, laddered, remixable Visual branding issuers and earners Online trust system demonstrate skills & capabilities proof of performance backed by issuer A digital representation of an accomplishment, interest or affiliation that is visual, available online and contains metadata including trusted links that help explain the context, meaning, process and result of an activity. As an open artefact, the earner can present the badge in different contexts from which it was earned. Micro-credential – portable record of learning What is an Open Badge?
- 28. Scouting Achievement Heraldry Affiliations Blue Light Authority Military Rank & Skills www.britishbadgeforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7253 metronews.ca/ History of recognition using Badges Since pre-Roman times ... Badge Tracking Android App
- 29. Mapping badgespace credentials digital badges certifications Open Badges micro- credentials CC BY Doug Belshaw dougbelshaw.com Standards-based & interoperable No image requirement
- 30. Immediate transparency, instant validation Interactive digital credentials
- 31. Share on social media LinkedIn for “résumé worthy” badges also
- 32. SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT a micro-credential a discrete record in a modular transcript TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION a portable “smart” graphic embedded with structured data with links to supporting information Different perspectives… What is an Open Badge? FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT a reward for positive behaviour a marker on a development path “… a simple digital standard for recognizing and sharing achievements, skills and performance over networks.”
- 33. Some uses of badges (can be combined) transformingassessment.com/TA_webinar_5_mar_2014_Simon_Cross.pdf Recognize status Reputation Group affiliation Keep artefacts Souvenirs of experience Motivate learning “Game mechanics” Set goals, track progress Personal learning pathways Assess & recognize learning Formal, non-formal, informal Fill recognition gaps
- 34. Badge taxonomy from Penn State Chris Long
- 35. Early trends: A summary Over 10 million badges, thousands of issuers Early adoption: • After school, community programs (youth) • Continuing Education • Professionalization and PD • Product training (esp. ICT) - the “Extended Enterprise” • Business Soft Skills • Testing Recognition • Pre-employment
- 37. Wichita State University Badges for Workforce, Professional & Community Education For non-degree seeking students adges.wichita.edu Undergraduate & graduate credit 22.5 hours instruction/study delivered online 0.5 credit hours WSU transcript $100 per badge Program is expanding
- 39. Granular learning pathways Colorado State University Community focused Industry driven Learner centric Ecosystem friendly slideshare.net/secret/xBjQY3Ipdsc06l bit.ly/1E0TqAM “...an opportunity to facilitate large numbers of learners from across the world with just-in-time education from a multitude of educational providers.”
- 40. Based on partnership PACE/CPS aligned to skills frameworks Partnerships with NPOs, private sector
- 41. Aligned to the AQF…
- 42. Badging Continuing Education Madison College madisoncollege.edu/badges Strategic Objective: Creation and promotion of innovative, market-based credentials in credit, non- credit and customized programming (i.e. Badges)
- 43. Spun for the Provost PACE case study: Madison College (US-WI) KateRadionoff/april-2017-provost-presentation
- 44. “Extended Enterprise Learning” Technology vendor product training Adobe IBM AutodeskOracle Hortonworks
- 45. Emerging benefit: corporate skills registry
- 47. Why not a skills heat map for BC? switchthestat.ca
- 48. Professionalization & PD Unregulated: • AXELOS • HR Certification Institute • AACE (total cost management) • Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) • International Board of Credentialing and Continuing Education Standards (IBCCES) • ASIS International Regulated: • American Board for Certification in Orthotics, Prosthetics & Pedorthics • Institute of Management Accountants • Association of Clinical Research Professionals
- 49. 192,000 workers in Scotland Regulator & Sector Council badges.sssc.uk.com/badges Work based qualifications: enter with little education, achieve a degree Open Badges to recognized informal learning Potential for formalized RPL later
- 50. Trades Certification - City & Guilds/Worldchefs worldchefs.org/Certification Issued using sharable Open Badges
- 51. OU’s OpenLearn – Badged Open Courses (BOC) bit.ly/OUbadges
- 52. What’s happening in Canada?
- 54. Program accreditation, NOS and professional recognition ITAC – Business technology management SFIA – 3 BTM Pgm $50 SFIA = Skills Framework for the Information Age SFIA – 5 BTM Pgm Board Assessment $350 SFIA – 7 BTM Pgm Board Assessment $350 btm-forum.org
- 55. Non-credit recognition Ryerson – Chang School SME Coaching 4 sessions, applied learning Badges issued: 2 SME Lecture 1-2 hours, 2-3 outcomes Badges issued: 158 Online Course 4 weeks (~20 hrs) with assignments Badges issued: 140 Retirement Home Love of Learning, Personal Recognition Badges issued: 4
- 56. Emerging open recognition networks
- 57. Colorado – a cross-sectoral network DPS presentation
- 58. Humanitarian PLE - across agencies, across careers Talent Pipeline Recruitment Induction Formative Assessment Gap Training Team Building Performance Management Talent Management Experience Achievements Professional Development Career Development Leadership Development SME Specialization Career Change Outplacement Career Pathways External Performance Support Google, YouTube External repositories Coaching and Mentoring Other External Learning MOOCs, Open Ed Resources, Personal Learning Network, Communities of Practice OCBA OCG OCP Academic recognition? New Career? OCB OCA Other MSF LMSs such as: Skills Marketplace Demand Supply Badge Passport/ ePortfolio Digital Credentials External Recognition Workplace Assessments & Achievements New Mission? New MSF role? HRIS/ERP Systems Performance Management System Talent Management System
- 59. Humanitarian Passport Initiative Vision: an international recognition network PLE/PDE
- 61. Forthcoming Request for Expressions of Interest (EOI) Provincial prototype for alternative recognition To support & extend technology-enhanced teaching and learning, especially in: • Recognition of Prior Learning • Informal Co-Curricular Learning • Skills and knowledge required for workforce entry Potential common themes: • Open educational practices • Competency based education • Institutional & program learning outcomes • Employability soft skills • Work Integrated Learning
- 62. Displayer API REST API / LTI
- 63. Displayer API REST API / LTI
- 65. Starting up a regional skills network in Canada … Help us transform Open Badges into alternative credentials that build our workforce
- 66. Open Badges: Going forward
- 68. Mozilla passes the torch x
- 69. Pre-implementation phase v2.0 Open Badge specification Improved Linked Data / JSON-LD support • more flexibility, interoperability Embedded evidence and criteria More flexible recipient identifiers • email, telephone number, url, profile id Third Party Endorsement • badge issuer, badge class, badge assertion • new image metadata for accessibility Internationalization and multi-lingual badges Improved alignment to external frameworks and objectives • by issuer, by consumer/3rd party, can be part of endorsement Security improvements
- 71. PACE/CT with micro-credentialing, backed by institution Innovative Australian model deakinco.com “Purpose-built learning, development and measurement solutions to help organizations prepare their workforce for the future.”
- 72. What does all this mean?
- 73. www.badgealliance.org/why-badges/ VISION: a skills ecosystem Open Badges, micro-portfolios in social networks Going digital helps… searchingdeconstructingvalidating aligning sharingcombiningassessing “valorizing”
- 74. Open Badges, ePortfolios &“Badge Passports” Benefits of a new skills currency Visually efficient and appealing Engages, builds confidence, provides continuing feedback Individual pathways, multiple sources of learning Formal non-formal informal learning Modular, stackable, diverse, re-mixable, portable, shareable Programs not completed can be partially recognized and recombined Add evidence, reflection as appropriate Drill down to specifics or roll up into larger outcomes Combined in badge passports and ePortfolios Common standard for skills exchange Trustable, easy to understand Transparent criteria, evidence, issue/expiry date Flexible alignment to frameworks, requirements, training plans Issuing organization validated and branded by the badges it issues; maintains ongoing connection to earners Learner centred, employer friendly, becoming more machine-readable
- 75. Foster, deliver, support & recognize learning Matching the 7 themes of emerging technologies Speed of Change The Value of Place Data Informed Flexibility Personalization Learning for Life DisintermediationOkanagan College CETABC 2017
- 76. Some questions to ask Are you a potential Open Badges issuer? Behavioural goals? Redeemable worth? worth the effort? filling a void? marketing ROI? Value add? Champions? Sustainability? what will your badges “buy”? have you talked to employers? students? internal leadership? professional bodies? employers? cost structure? who will maintain & improve it over time? engagement? feedback? recognition? development? skills frameworks?
- 77. ConEd, CPD Contract Training Professional Education High Schools Community Colleges Educational Consortia Employers Apprenticeship Authorities Student Services Universities Faculties, Departments PACE Depts. Governments Professional Bodies Undergraduate Studies Post-Graduate Studies Post-Secondary Preparation NGO Agencies AssociationsPrivate Educators & Trainers Student Bodies Sector Organizations Standards, Accreditation Bodies Learning Continuum Recognition, Curation and Transfer: Admission, Transfer, Graduation, Licensure, Continuing Competence, Career Transition, Credit Transfer, Credit Bank, PLAR, Digital Badges – Open Badges – Skills Passports – ePortfolios Experiential Learners: Work-Integrated Learning (WIL), Co-Curricular, Extra-Curricular, Lifewide Learning Diverse Learners: young/old, serial/working/ transition/at risk, domestic/international/refugee, full-time/part-time ... Open Educational Practices: LMS – ePortfolio – Social Media – “Domain of Your Own”, Open Content: OER, Open Textbook, Wide Open Internet, Open Learning: “Open Boundary”, xMOOC, Cmooc, Open Assessment
- 78. LMS? * Make/adapt your own (FOSS) License & install proprietary SW Cloud Service DIY versus Supported Getting started Badge Canvas Design Principles Card Deck Do It Yourself Workshops: awareness, train the trainer Design & implementation support Technology support Supported Technology choices Explore: earn a badge, display it Immerse: research, LPP (lurking) in badge community Experiment: design a badge, design a small badge system Pilot: build internal support, implement, maintain and improve
- 80. The future is already here; it’s just not very e venly dis tributed. William Gibson Final thought en.wikiquote.org
- 82. Don Presant don@learningagents.ca @donpresant Presentation support page: http://bit.ly/openbadges4he Notes from the 2017 BC Open Badges Forum: bit.ly/BC2017-Notes
Editor's Notes
- #2: About Learning Agents About Don Presant
- #16: Average age 37-38; often with BA or better
- #22: Technology enabled learning Enable learners of the future Most students already know that PSE is not the end of their education: continuous,; what they “know” is permanently beta Premier’s HSWI: “Building the Workforce of Tomorrow” Badging is not a solution is search of a problem. Ontario has a problem and needs to aim badging at it. Minister: every PSE student in Ontario shall have a meaningful experiential learning opportunity before graduation. How do we do that? Rethinking: -the learning experience -learning resources (OER) -credentials (recognition).. makes Provosts gasp, but getting butts kicked by players like: RED Academy (small pieces of learning that enable you to DO stuff – not that you took a course in swimming – can you swim?) Rethinking Learning: Address experiential learning desires of students Provide real world experiences Allow employers to audition students Provide self-managed environments to support learning WIL, co-op, practicums,… but mostly self-directed T-shaped student: deep domain knowledge, but broad practical experience – how does that translate into a 3D CV? If LinkedIn is where you put this stuff, how can institutions interoperate with that? eCO is working to put in the infrastructure for a provincial badging system prototype. Also working with LinkedIn Learning, Riipen, other kinds of people working with interesting technology-enabled ideas Final Q: what does the common infrastructure for experiential learning and validation of that learning look like in Canada and who needs to be involved?
- #59: Other humanitarian learning systems, e.g.: -RCRC -CDC -UNHCR Global Learning Center
- #62: Each institution will set its own specific goals and terms of reference, working with eCampusOntario and potentially in collaboration with other institutions.
- #81: Soft skills enable hard skills Badges are ePortfolios Badge design should be nuanced, not binary – easy to do… badly There’s lots of there there, but not a lot of it is here in Canada