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Open Badges design day19th March 2014Lucy Neale & Mark Riches
Badge The UK
“Over 70% of employers want employability skills to become a top education priority”The CBI
“…qualifications are worthless as a criteria for hiring”Google 2013
Open Badges – creating
new skills currency
DigitalMe is a social enterprise working with schools, charities, employers and platforms to create a new digital skills currency using Open Badges.
We run Badge the UK, a Nominet Trust funded initiative to support the implementation of Open Badges across the UK
We are a Mozilla’s Open Badge partner in the UK & Europe and part of the Global Open Badge visionary team.
Badge The UK• Develop online badge tools which make it
easy for learners to discover, take and display badges
• Support schools, charities, learning organisations & employers to create and issue badges
• Work with employers, awarding bodies and sector skills councils to endorse and recognise badges
Aims for the Session: 1. Understand what Open Badges are and
how they could work for your organisation
2. Have a go at designing your own badge to launch to schools
3. Think about practical next steps to make your badges a reality
Introduction• Open Badge 101
13.00 Working Lunch
Badge Design • Badge Canvas• Visual Design - Makebadg.es • Pitch!
Next steps• Launching badges to schools
16.00 Finish
1. What are open badges?
Mozilla Open Badges: a web standard which captures & communicates skills
Silo 1 Silo 2
Silo 4
Formal qualifications
After schoolclub certificates
Onlinelearning
Silo 3
Professional development
How do they work?
Mozilla’s Open Badge Infrastructure
Badge Displayers
What makes Open Badges different?1. Open & free skills
communication standard2. Anyone can create open
badges3. Data is owned by users
Who is using Open Badges?
Some of the organisationsinvolved in the
ecosystem
300,000 + badges issued
2000 issuers
52,395 Backpacks
1400% Growth since Nov 2012
120 partners
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9LumZi0Gps
Badges in Action
Is a safe social badging platform where young people can build a digital record of achievements
5,000 Schools
75,000 Students
11,000 Teachers
Schools can setup their own site for free and create and issue badgesINVERKEITHING
Young people have their own pages, build a portfolio of work and display their badges
Micro blogging
MW ActivitiesPortfolios
Media Sharing
Social platforms
Young person centred
Check and moderate work
Easily set privacy for each piece of content or for the whole site
Choose the level of interaction with others
Develop a culture
Treat teachers like Gods
Provide the right tools
So Far50,000 badges awarded
23,000 students have earned a badge from over 1000 schools
Makewav.es/badgelibrary
Malala Day Campaign
Red Nose Day Badge
Young people blog about their progress and capture multimedia content online or via mobile app.
Submit their stories to central hub.
Get feedback from peers, family and community.
Cooks and Kids
Young person at the centre
A wider range of pupils are completing work at home in their own time. Our pupils are excited and talk about how many badges they have on a daily basis. They are an amazing motivational tool.St Pauls Primary @leotindal
Badges are a great way of focusing pupils on a task or of lending credibility. Furthermore it is a great way to assess and evidence pupils' progress.Jason Bromfield Music Teacher
The Badge System is great! I can now set students multiple tasks and ad monitor the work at a glanceShireland Collegiate Academy
What Teachers say
5 things to think about when thinking about badges…
1. Badge Framework
2. Badge Design
Badge image designer
www.makebadg.es
3. Discoverability
Discovering Badges
4. Manage and Measure
Progress tracking
5. Credibility & Currency
Questions?
Working Lunch
1. Audience & Value
Primary & secondary age (Open Badges for 13+)Teachers
School
Other pupilsTechnology companies Colleges / Universities
Stand out digital CV Access to software & hardwareDays out of school presenting
Recognise genuine learningIndustry recognition
Identify talentStaff engagement
Technology sector companiesUniversities / college
Existing dbConferencesEndorser channels
Teacher & peer Monitored by DigitalMe
2. ComponentsDigital Leader Explorer Badge
• Learn to use software / hardware• Knowledge of main functions• Ideas of how it could be applied to solve a problem
• Working independently • Resilience• Self Confidence
• Create and deliver a presentation on technology discovered• Field questions from group
• Share presentation online• Teacher / snr peer confirms presentation by awarding the badge
3. Badge pathways
Explorer: Independently explore & shareReactor: Responds to a brief, applies tech to solve a problemProject: Works as part of a team on extended projectSub badges e.g. presenter, coder, help desk, ambassador (three earned for each badge)
4. Resources
- Staff time: develop endorser relationships, presentations, training, create support materials, fund raising- Badge issuing platform / plugin (e.g. Makewaves, Badge us, Blackboard, wordress plugin etc…- Displayer: Wordpress, Moodle, Linkedin, Thimble CV? - Expenses
5. Design
Badge image designer
www.makebadg.es
Pitch!
Break
Next Steps
Launch your badge mission
Become a BTUK partner
Unlocking the value of Open Badges for your organisation
What we do -Add your badge to the library for FREE-Help you badge your learning program-Makewaves microsite and badge pack- Create your own badge platform-Summer of learning program with parents
Create your own
Yay! You’ve earned a badge!
Thanks!