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Portability of Achievement – Open Badges in Assessment

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Steve Sidaway and Tom HollandMyKnowledgeMap

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What are Open Badges?

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In this session, we will design an open badge, create the badge, and award an open badge. You will all earn a badge for attendance!

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What are Open Badges?

Earn Issue DisplayEarn badges for skills you Give recognition for things Show your

badges in thelearn on and offline you teach places that

matter

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Slides adapted from Doug Bellshaw, Licensed by CC Sharealike 2.0Open badges in professional healthcare education

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Full version released!• OpenBadges 1.0 launched at the

#DML2013 conference

• Final standard and reference toolset, and a new look backpack

• Developed by Mozilla in partnership with the MacArthur Foundation

• A lively and active international developer community

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Who’s currently using Open Badges?

Over 600 organisations. Mozilla Webmaker. Corporation for Public Broadcasting. NOAA Planet Stewards. 4-H/USDA. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies. MOUSE. Peer to Peer University. Open University / Cloudworks. EDUCAUSE. Codery. Gogo Lab. OpenBadgesUA. UniMOOC aemprende. Cybersociety Observatory. Youtopia. Seton Hall University. Makewaves. YMCA of Greater New York. NYC Department of Education. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dallas Museum of Art. HIVE NYC. Providence After School Alliance. workforce.io. DigitalMe. Sweet Water Foundation. David Wiley Introduction to Open Education course. IPT EdTec – Using Technology In Teaching. Coderbits. Open University Cloudworks. Museum Computer Network. Museums & Mobile. MyKnowledgeMap. Illinois Online Network. NASA. Microsoft. Disney-Pixar. Badges Work for Vets. Intel and Society for Science and the Public. Cybersociety Observatory. OpenBadgesUA. UniMOOC aemprende. workforce.io. OhioCreditFlexibility.org. Sweet Water Foundation. Tamritz. SUNY Empire State College. IPT EdTec. Coderbits. Center for Educational Technologies at Wheeling Jesuit University. Codery. Providence After School Alliance. Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana. Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy. Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt. Design for America. EarthWorks. DigitalMe. Makewaves. GoGo Labs. BuzzMath. Leverage for Digital On-Ramps. YALSA. UC Davis Agricultural Sustainability Institute. Sweet Water AQUAPONS. Totara Learning Solutions Ltd. Manufacturing Institute

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Brainstorm: what would you badge?

• Choose an area that’s relevant to you and your group that lends itself to awarding open badges

• How could badges motivate your students?

• How would badges be useful for verification?

• Describe the workflow

• What rules might people have to meet to earn a badge?

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A major project implementation• UpBete – A partnership with Leeds Teaching

Hospitals NHS Trust and Yorkshire and Humber SHA

• Online patient education platform to help patients manage their condition

• Children with diabetes and their families design badges and award criteria themselves

• Open Badges will motivate and reward engagement through rules based engine

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http://dev.upbete.co.uk/admin/

badges.aspx

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Art Supplies 2 by Andrew Forgravehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/aforgrave/6108281552/in/photostream/

Open Badge Designer

www.openbadges.me

• No Photoshop? No Worries!

• Combine a library of graphical elements to create a unique badge design. Add text and change colours for anyone to design badges and award criteria

• Publish a custom Open Badge graphic in PNG format

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http://openbadges.me/If you don’t want to provide an email address, use

tom.holland@myknowledgemap.com - don’t select “have a play” because you won’t be able to publish your badges!

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Issuing badges• Automatic issue when criteria and rules are met

• Visual, Xbox-style alerts

• Dynamic build of assertions

• Quick links to personal Backpacks

• Badges automatically stored in the RMA online system

Open Badges in ReallyManaging Assessment (planned)

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http://badg.us/

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Summary• Supporting Open Badges may be a game changer

• We are investigating use of Open Badges across a variety of projects and products

• First key deliverable is Open Badge Designer

• Second key deliverable will be Open Badges in UpBete site

• Third deliverable will be a Badge Issuing Component

• Fourth deliverable… Open Badges in ReallyManaging Assessment?

Photo by Matt Hobbshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ultrahi/2209625078/

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Have a badge!• You’ve earned your MyKnowledgeMap Open Badge Awareness

badge!

• Go to http://ob-awareness.myknowledgemap.com/

• Enter your claim code

22 – 08 – 39 – 74 - 13• You’ll need somewhere to store your badge:

• http://beta.openbadges.org

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Ideas?http://www.openbadges.me

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