Lessons from Open Badges in the UK RSA Cities of Learning Event

Lessons from Open Badges in the UK

RSA22 March 2016Tim Riches@triches [email protected]

ALearner

BEmployer

ALearner

BEmployer

2003-10

Open Badges are images with metadata hard-coded into them

2011

Open data so you can go places

2012

Findings

16-30yrs

2015

O2 Video

O2 Academy

Evidence is submitted

Evidence is verified

Skills are endorsed

Badges are shared

2016

Building and sharing a learning profile

Who's using Open Badges

“Open Badges can evolve best as a collaborative, community-driven effort. Its future is brightest when the community comes together to carry it forward.”

Mark SurmanExecutive Director, Mozilla Foundation