Rationale:

Learning today happens everywhere. But it's often difficult to get recognition for skills and achievements that happen online or out of school. Mozilla Open Badges helps solve that problem, making it easy for any organization to issue, manage and display digital badges across the web.

Learning today happens everywhere. But it's often difficult to get recognition for skills and achievements that happen online or out of school. Mozilla Open Badges helps solve that problem, making it easy for any organization to issue, manage and display digital badges across the web.

Rationale:

Who are you?

Dr. Doug BelshawBadges & Skills LeadMozilla Foundation

@dajbelshawdoug@mozillafoundation.org

Who are you?

Dr. Doug Belshaw2003-10 Teacher & Senior Leader

2010-12 Higher Education

2012+ Mozilla Foundation

Mozilla!(global non-profit)

1. Introduction2. The problem3. Towards a solution4. Who’s using Open Badges?5. What’s next for Open Badges?

Overview

The Problem

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GCSEs Certificate

Scouts, Girl Guides, etc.

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GCSEs Certificate

Scouts, Girl Guides, etc.

What skills/attributes are missing here?

(can we present themin a holistic way?)

Towards a Solution

What if we used badges to credential learning?

Not just digital badges but Open Badges

Open Badges are images with metadata hard-coded into them

CC BY-SA Kyle Bowen

Visual representations ofachievements, learning, skills,

interests, competencies

Open Badges can augmenttraditional education practices

They can accommodateformal & informallearning pathways

They can represent hard & softskills, peer assessment, and stackable lifelong learning

Open Badges can capture learning wherever & however itoccurs—allowing for innovation

CC BY-SA Kyle Bowen

Open Badges?(What about degrees, certificates, diplomas?)

Not simply either/or—both/and!

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How do we get there?

Through a shared badge ecosystem & infrastructure:

a universal standard.

OpenBadgesInfrastructure(OBI)

http://openbadges.org

Who’s usingOpen Badges?

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Issuers

http://cloudworks.ac.uk/badge/badge_list

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/

http://openbadges.webege.com/

http://www.rsc-scotland.org/eassessment/

http://www.digitalme.co.uk/student-digital-leaders-badgeathon/

https://www.makewav.es/s2r

http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/badges-projects.php?id=2246

http://www.kenteq.nl/smartsite.net?id=KT_HOME_EN

http://workforce.io/

http://hubprov.com

http://www.ymcanyc.org/association/pages/y-mvp

http://sweetwaterfoundation.com

http://buzzmath.com

http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/badges-projects.php?id=3213

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/dln/special/DigitalBadges.html

http://www.proexam.org/index.php/technology/digital-micro-credentials

http://www.digitalme.co.uk/student-digital-leaders-badgeathon/

https://badges.webmaker.org/

https://badges.p2pu.org/

What’s next forOpen Badges?

Open Badges at v1.0 as of March 2013

Federationof Badge Backpacks

Endorsement

COPPA compliance

New, open learning standard for

Web Literacy

Conclusion

Conclusion

• Open Badges = metadata-infused credentials

• We’re now at v1.0 of the OBI

• Lots of organisations are already using badges

• You can get started right now!

Questions?

@dajbelshaw / doug@mozillafoundation.org

http://badg.us

http://forallbadges.com

http://www.badgeos.org

http://openbadges.me