CURATE, CREDENTIAL & CARRY FORWARD DIGITAL LEARNING EVIDENCE

THE POTENTIAL OF OPEN BADGES IN HIGHER EDUCATION

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A Badge is…

"a validated indicator of accomplishment, skill, quality or interest.” MacArthur Foundation

“a single credential demonstrating a skill, achievement, quality or affiliation.” Mozilla

“a validated accomplishment obtained inside or outside school.” AERA President

Badges in Plain English

A digital artefact that contains ‘baked-in’ meta data to a structured yet flexible credentialing system that warrants, endorses, rewards and displays the achievement of specific and verifiable experiences, skills and knowledge through evidence.

Coleman & Wisser, 2014

Open BadgesOpen Badges allow you to verify your skills, interests and achievements through credible organizations.

An open standard means you can combine multiple badges from different issuers to tell the complete story of your achievements — both online and off.

Display your badges wherever you want them on the web, and share them for employment, education or lifelong learning.

http://www.openbadges.org/about/

Doug Belshaw, Mozilla Co-chair, DWL working group

What do they look like?

What are badges and why do we care?

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How could Open Badges Transform ePortfolio Practices and Technologies!Serge Ravet, Europortfolio, May 26

Design Challenge

Create a badge/badge system that

Complements

ePortfolios/Artefacts/evidence

Reinforces

Supports

Enhances

Motivates/ Recognises

ePortfolio & Open Badges Maturity Matrix

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