Open Badges as Bridges: Design, Create, Connect
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This document provides an agenda and overview for an event on open badges. The event aims to help participants design, create and connect badges to opportunities. The agenda includes sessions on badge design, creating and issuing badges, and connecting badges to create pathways. It also describes open badges as a way to capture skills from formal and informal learning. Participants will engage in activities to chart their own skills and design a badge, and will learn about using open badges to showcase achievements and find new opportunities.
Open Badges as Bridges: Design, Create, Connect
- 1. Open Badges as Bridges: Design, Create, Connect Gráinne Hamilton, Lucy Lewis, Alison Smith, Kevin Field CC BY-NC 4.0 Scottish MozFest Fringe Event 28th October 2015
- 2. - Design a badge of value - Create your badge - Connect badges to opportunities Aims of the day…
- 3. 10am - 10.25pm 10.25pm - 10.45pm 10.45pm - 12.15pm 12.15pm - 12.30pm 12.30pm - 1.30pm 1.30pm - 1.45pm 1.45pm - 2.45pm 2.45pm - 3pm 3pm - 3.30pm 3.30pm - 4pm Agenda - ‘Your story’ activity - Badges 101 - Design a badge - Badge design discussion - challenges and opportunities - Lunch - Introduction to the Open Badge Academy - Create and issue a badge - Introduction to badge pathways - Connect badges to create a badge pathway - Feedback and wrap up
- 4. Your Story
- 5. - Chart your life journey! - Note qualifications, hobbies, interests, volunteering, jobs, travel etc - Write your name in the head and stick it on the wall Using a Badge Story canvas…
- 6. - Review your life journey! - What are the common themes?, eg problem solving, creativity - Write these on a post-it and stick them beside your story Review your life!
- 7. - Review their life journey! - What are the common themes?, eg problem solving, creativity - Write these on a post-it and stick them beside their story Review your neighbour!
- 9. A web standard which captures & communicates skills and attributes
- 12. Capturing and evidencing life-long learning Formal Education Informal Learning Workplace Online Learning School FE HE CPD, Work Experience, Apprenticeships Volunteering, Youth Programmes Courses, Moocs
- 16. S2RfS enhances speaking, listening, writing and ICT skills of 11-16 year olds.
- 17. S2RfS helps children and young people develop workplace skills like communication, teamwork and managing deadlines.
- 18. S2RfS uses digital badges to enable young people to successfully display and transfer their new skills and experience into the world of work.
- 19. Where S2RfS has been happening? Durham CCC Learning Beyond the Boundary Bolton FC Huddersfield Town Hull KC Stadium Oldham AFC Leyton Orient FC Surrey CCC Norwich City FC Scunthorpe United FC Southend FC Wycombe Wanderers FC West Ham United FC
- 20. S2RfS Digital Badges... "Digital Badges have provided our students with a new and interesting way to showcase their skills and achievements with colleges and employers."
- 21. Reach of S2RfS so far S2RfS has an amazing overall student retention rate. Children and young people have benefitted directly from the programme and have demonstrated improved communication and ICT skills. Digital badges (S2R Medals) issued to date
- 22. S2RfS will continue developing as a programme providing free resources that can be used by schools and centres to support their own schemes. Announcing S2RfS Working for Success- A Paul Hamlyn funded programme creating UK pilot centres using opportunities presented by sports clubs to assist young people who are NEET or at the risk of becoming NEET to develop skills and find employment. Next Steps for S2RfS
- 23. Badges systems created with...
- 24. University of Sussex - recognise staff CPD Edinburgh University Students Association - recognise skills gained by Class Reps and enhance employability Abertay University - showcase HEAR related activities University of Dundee - recognise skills gained by students while co-creating the medical curriculum University of Sheffield - recognise learning in a MOOC. Can be used for a reduction in degree fees and credit towards modules
- 26. Meteora Climbing by Stefanos Nikologianis CC BY 2.0 from Flickr Finding new opportunities
- 27. From Flickr by James Cridland Standing out from the crowd
- 28. Forth Bridge Blues by Chris Combe CC BY 2.0 from Flickr Connecting to opportunities
- 29. Design a badge
- 30. - Hands up if you have a badge idea you want to design - Does anyone want to join them? - Don’t have a clue? - Collect the post-its on the wall - Group them into common themes - Join a group around a badge idea What badge?
- 32. Badge design discussion - challenges and opportunities
- 33. The Open Badge Academy (OBA)
- 34. Learner Explore Careers Evidence Skills Transition to Employment Educator Recognise Learning Build Capabilities Measure Impact Employer Set Industry Challenges Provide Pathways to opportunities Endorse Achievements Build a richer picture of you
- 35. OBA launches with TechFuture Academy
- 36. Open Badge Academy Create your badges Learners find your badgeLaunch academy Share achievements Connect with work and educational opportunities Learners add evidenceOrganisations track impact & recruit talent
- 44. Discover, earn and share badges on the move
- 45. “At the forefront of the Open Badges movement” Mark Surman Mozilla
- 46. Badge Design 250 x 250 pixels
- 47. Badge set
- 48. Employer ExpertPeer Multiple validation Evidence-based endorsement
- 49. Create and issue a badge
- 50. Badge Pathways
- 51. Forth Bridge Blues by Chris Combe CC BY 2.0 from Flickr Open Badges as Bridges: Connect
- 52. Webmaker Expand your digital literacy skills online by learning how to make and remix the web O2 Think Big Apply your digital enterprise skills to gain experience to help you transition into employment or enterprise CPD Refresh your computing knowledge on the job in order to teach the new computing curriculum Badges as pathways into employment SchoolSchools KS4/5 HE / Apprenticeships Career Development Code Club Develop an interest in coding through completing simple coding challenges
- 54. Activity Badges Skill badges (two levels) The YCiF Award
- 56. “An ordinary reference, from my college for example, might say that I’m capable of sitting down and learning something. These badges show that I’m sitting down, learning the skill, but then I’m going out and using them in real life situations to make changes.” - Charlie, 18 “The badges and Award I’ve earned show an employer what I can already do. I’ll be looking for a part time job when I start my degree my reference could help me to get a higher paid job in an area that I’m really interested in.” - Abi, 18
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- 58. Brian loves words, whether those words make up hundreds of lines of code or the sentences of a novel. His job at Mozilla involves a combination of both, since he codes and writes specifications for others who want to use the tools he builds. Words aside, he loves playing games, chopping wood(!) and cooking. Did we mention he rocks a bass (and a wicked hairstyle) in more than one band? Brian B. Senior Engineer / OBI Architect at Mozilla Badge-based pathways to employment Mozilla Discovery project
- 59. Matt likes breaking things and then putting them back together to improve them. His job as a QA engineer in the Firefox team involves everything from finding things that don't work - otherwise know as bugs - to coordinating projects within the open source community, such as new feature requests. His path is full of different jobs and adventures from rock-climbing to making tofu and being a psychologist at a youth detention centre. Matt B. Senior QA Engineer at Mozilla Badge-based pathways to employment Mozilla Discovery project
- 60. Follow your interests to find new opportunities. Build your capabilities to stand out from the crowd. Create your ideal career. Meteora Climbing by Stefanos Nikologianis CC BY 2.0 from Flickr From Flickr by James Cridland Forth Bridge Blues by Chris Combe CC BY 2.0 from Flickr
- 61. Exploring the OBA helps earners follow their skills to new opportunities
- 62. Badge Academies issue badges to build capabilities for specific groups, e.g. - university students - company employees - apprentices
- 63. Employer endorsed badges in the Public Library help earners to connect to career opportunities
- 64. - Add other badges that could link to and from the badge you designed - Look round the room, are there badges you could connect to - Create badge pathways Grab a Badge System Canvas and post-its
- 65. - Note what you're excited about - Note what you’re concerned about - Note what you'd like to explore further Badges for your organisation
- 66. @digitalme_
Editor's Notes
- #2: DigitalMe Dedicated to ensure learners gain recognition for all their skills – use badges to help the showcase their skills to unlock opportunities for learing and employment So first of all why did we get involved with Open Badges? Believe, like most people do that learning is much more than the paper based certficates – problem is that learning, informal learning or applied learning isn’t recognised. Presents a real problem for us because over the past 10 yrs we’ve collaborated on countless informal or applied learning programmes – young people aren’t getting the recognition for learning Over yrs we’ve tried to map our programmes against qualifications – either too inflexible or they come and at governments whim When Badges came along they seemed to offer an opporunity for us to take control of acreditation within our programmes Now we spend our time working with a whole range or organisations helping them implmenet
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- #10: Open Badges is new technology standard which skills to be captured and shared. Like email is a standard everyone recognises – open badges are a new standard for the communication of skills
- #11: Often a better example of a digital badge – ebay badge represents behaviour as well as skills - its trusted and is built up over time, micro transactions, awarded by a community therefore more valuable representation of an individual. Evidence of their badge can be viewed online as feedback - transparent
- #12: Develop by Mozilla Foundation – global non-profit. Mozilla is a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better. We believe that the Web is a shared public resource to be cared for, not a commodity to be sold. Creates open source tools to enable people to learn how to create the web, not just consume it. Good ethos around privacy and data – open badges are about enabling learners to own their own data Designed specifically for skills recognition Specifically to create new learning pathways. Open in two ways: Anyone can create them (brings up issues of value) Open data – user owns their data and can display where they choose to So how does this work?
- #15: Aim is to deliver this workflow or pathway… Important that the badges have value in the real world
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- #27: When an employer is receiving hundreds if not thousands of applications for a job, how do your students stand out from the crowd? What can help differentiate one student from another as having more pertinent skills, attributes or achievements for that position? We know employers are keen to know more about those additional skills or attributes, the so-called soft or additional skills that can help someone flourish in the workplace - How do we help employers see them?
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- #35: Introduction: OBA is a new badging platform focussed on helping people evidence all of their skills and achievements using open badges. For learners – it’s a place to discover employer endorsed badges, develop skills and showcase what they can do. They can build an online profile which can be shared with employers or training providers For Educators – it’s a way to Recognise learning already taking place both formally and informally, build capabilities and prepare people for work and measure the impact of their programmes (schools, charities, training providers) For Employers - define skills needed in their organisation or industry, develop a pipeline of talent (internally and externally) and help people by endorsing their badges
- #36: OBA is not launched yet – you are getting a sneak peak today Beta Launch next week with first academy with Tech Partnership – working with employers to provide a range of badges aligned with the critical skills required for the tech sector. Launching the first set of employer endorsed badges.
- #37: How it works – talk through workflow
- #38: Range of badges to discover
- #39: Or search via sector or organisation
- #40: Each Academy can be branded. Badge library
- #41: Each badge can include tasks and supporting materials requesting specific evidence Evidence requested can be text, video or audio
- #42: A learner can add their evidence and receive endorsements from professionals.
- #43: Build a profile page
- #44: Easy Badge designer
- #45: Fully responsive site and IOS app Today is your chance to use the test system. If you are interested in taking part in the beta pilot then you can register your interest today or online.
- #47: Brand is your promise to your customer There are a few things to think about. How does the badge represent your brand guidelines? Are their partner brands that need to be represented Is it clear what the badge is for? Does the brand appeal to your target audience? Will your badge stand out in a library of badges Is it part of a set or sub set Is it time specific Does it have levels All this needs representing in 250 pixels square it’s a design challenge that a designer should relish because it should focus us
- #49: New model provides validation from multiple points – via peers or community, experts or educators and via industry or employers This builds value and trust into the heart of the badge and is a model particularly relevant to city & guilds
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