Open badges intro and badge system design
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www.badgecraft.euBADGECRAFT
WHO ARE WE?
• Badgecraft is a company aiming to
provide opportunities for
recognising achievements by using
Open badges
• We are coming from the fields of
education & IT and aiming to blend
the two for creating badging
experiences for our clients.
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Degree
DiplomaCertificate
Courses
without
certificates
● Unknown skills
● Hard to get evidence
● Hardly moves across diverse systems
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Degree
Diploma
Certificate
Courses
without
certificates
● Hierarchical structures and old style unreliable assessment methods
● Excluding diverse learning providers and non-linear learning pathways
● Unclear quantitative indication (marks)
● Can’t be indexed and shared online
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WHAT IS AN OPEN BADGE
• Visual representation – digital image and
integrated meta-data
• It is free and open technical standard –any
user can earn, manage and display these
badges all across the web
• Aims to build shared ecosystem using the
same infrustructre across different platforms
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WHAT IS AN OPEN BADGE
• Whether they’re issued by one organization or
many, badges can build upon each other,
joining together to tell the full story of skills
and other learning achievements.
• Users have an easy way to collect their
badges in a single backpack, and display their
learning achievements on social networking
profiles, job sites, their websites and more.
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OPEN BADGES IN NUMBERS
By May 2014 there were...
• 14 000 issuers, who...
• issued more than 1 million badges and...
• 4 million expected to be issued by the end of
2014 and…
• 10 million by the end of 2016, out of those…
• 1 million expected to be issued in Europe
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FIND A BADGE WHICH…http://discover.openbadges.org/badge/
- Has an icon that represents the content very well- A badge that is dedicated for PARTICIPATION- A badge that describes an ACHIEVEMENT- A badge that describes a concrete COMPETENCE (skill, knowledge,
change of behaviour)- A badge that describes a QUALITY of a person- A badge with an ATTRACTIVE NAME- A badge with an INFOMATIVE NAME- A Badge with an ATTRACTIVE CONTENT- A Badge with an INFORMATIVE/CONCRETE CONTENT
Collect a list of key words used to decribe a badge (badge confirms… Person owning this badge… Badge indicates…)
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NAME
Give your new badge the name that will be clear to others and tell something what it is about.
- funny?- serious?- attractive?- relevant
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DESCRIPTION
Describe what you want to achieve and represent with your Open Badge (e.g. new knowledge, developed skills, changed attitudes or behaviours)
- This badge shows.../ The owner of this badge is…
- Tell the truth!
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CRITERIA
Identify what you need to do in order to complete the learning related to your badge. - Specific quests or tasks person had to complete- How will you know if the person completed the
tasks?
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Define your key objectives• What challenges badge system should solve?
• What should it help to achieve?
• What kind of behaviour should it promote in
learners?
BUILD YOUR BADGE SYSTEM
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• Start with a Skills Tree
• Define one competence in details: what are the
skills, knowledge, attitudes, which will be
developed throughout the project
• Draw skills tree for that one competence:• What is the sequence?
• How different skills/ attitudes are interlinked?
• Will you come back to the same skill?
• What about levels?
BUILD YOUR BADGE SYSTEM
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BADGE DESIGN PRINCIPLES
1. Use badges to map learning trajectories
2. Align badges to standards
3. Have experts issue badges
4. Seek external backing.
5. Recognize diverse learning.Source: http://www.hastac.org/blogs/andirehak/2013/05/20/digital-badge-design-principles-
recognizing-learning
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BADGE DESIGN PRINCIPLES
6. Use badges as a means of external
communication of knowledge and/or skills.
7. Make badges permanent.
8. Recognize educator learning as well.
9. Award formal academic credit for badges.
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