Open Badges...more than Gamification or Gold Stars

Open Badges...more than

Gamification or Gold Stars

Educational Developers Caucus

February 13, 2014

Don PresantLONGER PRESENTATION PAGE:

http://bit.ly/openbadges4he

70:20:10 RuleNot all learning takes place in the classroom

deakinprime.com

wikipedia.org

Personal Learning Networks Learning about learning never stops

Alec Couros 2010

“Paper Silos”Issues with certification today

• Transparency issues

– “Dumb” paper often needs other

documents, e.g. syllabus

– Proxy only – not the “whole story”

– Easy to forge

• Recognition issues

– Lack of granularity

– Lack of context• links to supporting evidence

– Experiential learning not valued

– Lack of alignment, transfer,

articulation (“stackability”)

• Physical issues

– Difficult to share, easy to lose

freedesignfile.com/92259

Open Badges

“micro-portfolios”

What are Open Badges?Brief introduction

bit.ly/openbadges4tpd

Origins of Badges

• Since pre-Roman

times

• Heraldry, Military,

Blue Light, Boy Scouts

• Public recognition:

achievement,

affiliation, authority

www.britishbadgeforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7253

metronews.ca/Badge Tracking Android App

A digital representation of an accomplishment,

interest or affiliation that is visual, available

online, and contains metadata including

trusted links that help explain the context,

meaning, process and result of an activity.

As an open artefact, the earner can present the

badge in different contexts from which it was

earned.

• Clear progress markers– Motivating learners, supporting advisors

• Flexible learning pathways– Granular, incremental, multi-source,

laddered, remixable

• Visual branding– Issuers and learners

• Online trust system– Demonstrate skills & capabilities

– Proof of performance

– Backed by issuer

What is an Open Badge?Micro credentials - modular record of learning

www.badgealliance.org/why-badges/

A modular skills ecosystemOpen Badges and “Micro-portfolios”

“Going Digital” helps:

• Sharing, searching

• Validating, “valorizing”

– Assessing, aligning, combining, separating

Open Badges & Social Media

Curated in ePortfolio…

Interactive criteria…

LinkedIn Profile…

Facebook timeline…

Pulled from Backpack…

What is an Open Badge?Different perspectives…

TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION

• A portable graphic with an embedded description and links to

supporting information

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

• A reward for positive (prescribed) behaviour

• A marker on a development path

SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT

• A micro-credential

• A discrete record in a modular transcript

…a simple digital standard for recognizing and sharing

achievements, skills and performance

How do Open Badges

support learning?

Emerging public policy: USSecretary of Education

Badges can help speed the shift from credentials that

simply measure seat time, to ones that more

accurately measure competency. We must

accelerate that transition. And badges can help

account for formal and informal learning in a variety

of settings.

Today's technology-enabled, information-rich, deeply

interconnected world means learning not only can –

but should – happen anywhere, anytime. We need to

recognize these experiences, whether the

environments are physical or online, and whether

learning takes place in schools, colleges or adult

education centers, or in afterschool, workplace,

military or community settings.

Arne Duncan

Sep 2011

www.ed.gov/news/speeches/digital-badges-learning

Emerging public policy: UK Minister of State for Skills and Enterprise

“In broad terms, the conferring of an Open Badge

on a learner is similar to the award of a

qualification certificate, and the same quality

standards must be ensured.

The emerging opportunities offered by Open

Badges in the areas of peer assessment,

employer partnership, learning analytics and

the engagement of learners means that it should

be considered in learning technology at various

levels.

We will encourage Awarding Organisations, Ofqual

and Ofsted to be aware of the potential of this

technology.”

Further Education Learning Technology Action Group (FELTAG) recommendations: government response

Matthew Hancock, June 2014

Some uses of badgesCan be combined...

• Motivate learning

– “Game mechanics”:

• Set goals (missions), evaluate, track progress

• Provide learning pathways

• Recognize status, reputation, group affiliation

• Keep souvenir of experience

• Assess, recognize learning

– Formal, non-formal, informal

– Fill recognition gaps not currently well-served

transformingassessment.com/TA_webinar_5_mar_2014_Simon_Cross.pdf

Badge PathwaysMozilla “Discover” (Gates funding)

http://discover.openbadges.org/

MATURE

ADULT

YOUTH

Open Badges: Lifelong, Lifewide Learning

LOW

STAKESHIGH

STAKES

VolunteerExperience

WorkPlacements

AfterSchool

Programs

ClassroomEngagement

WorkplaceEngagement

PersonalLearning

MOOCs

Co-CurricularRecord

Workshops

P/T & Summer

JobsAdmission to

Higher Ed

Admission toPost GradSchools

Job Hire

Conferences

Recognitionof Prior

Learning

EmployabilityPortfolio

CareerTransition

Promotion

Communitiesof

Practice

Memberships,Affiliations

Awards,Achievements

TeamBuilding “Hard”

Credentials

“Soft”Credentials

Red Cross, Cadets, Scouts,

etc.

E-learningCourses

FormativeFeedback

Awards,Achievements

ContinuingEducation

Open University, UKStudent engagement and retention

http://www.olds.ac.uk/badges

See analysis: MOOC Badging and the Learning Arc

Open Learning Design Studio (OLDS) MOOC

Purdue UniversityBalancing Badges with Grades

Video playlist: http://www.savvyfolio.net/user/don/open-badges-and-higher-education

Digital Badges vs. GradesPurdue University

Open Badges Grades

Learner control over presentation and “ownership”

A-F grading system focuses on extrinsic, opaque and sorting-based assessment

Transparency of learner attainments and mastery

Grades are not reliable indicators of actual skills/knowledge

(Often) provide specific evidence for learner attainments from lifewidecontexts

Do not address formal learning

Adapted from Bill Watson, PurduePoly 2014 (YouTube )

Badges and OER at BYUDavid Wiley makes you work…

https://learn.canvas.net/courses/4

OPENedXOpen Badges and MOOCs

figshare.com

Deakin UniversityBadges for Employability Soft Skills

t.co/ior8y5pbqe

Recognizing Co-Curricular LearningUniversity of Michigan

“Badging the Badger”Open Badges for Teacher Development

The California School-Age Consortium:

Europe - Adult Education Made Accessible:

PROJECT UNDERWAY

• Accessibility Quality Badges for Adult Education

Providers

• Accessibility Competency Badges for Experts

Community Educator PD

• Community Service

• Communications

• Leadership Development

• Awards

• Subject Matter Development

educause

Inspiration

for EDC?

Educause

Emerging in CanadaEarly Adopters (#badgeCAN)

MSF Canada -> InternationalPLEs for Humanitarian Workers

Other

Humanitarian LMSs

OCBA

OCG

New MSF role?

HRIS/ERPSystems

PerformanceManagement

System

Talent Management

System

DocumentRepository

Project Management

System

Talent

Pipeline

Recruitment

Induction

Formative Assessment

Gap Training

Team Building

Performance Management

Talent Management

Experience

Achievements

Professional Development

Career Development

Leadership

Development

SME Specialization

Career Change

Outplacement

External Performance SupportJust Ask Google, Ask YouTube

External repositoriesPLN/Communities of Practice

social media

Coaching and Mentoring

OCB

Other External Learning MOOCs, self-directed OER,

PLN/Communities of Practiceformal->informal, online / F2F

experiential, etc.

New mission?

New career?

Academic

recognition?

BadgePassport

/ ePortfolio

A new skills currencyOpen Badges, ePortfolios &“Badge Passports”

• Visually efficient and appealing

– Engages, builds confidence, provides continuing feedback

• Individual pathways, multiple sources of learning

– Formal <---> non-formal <---> informal learning

– Modular, stackable, diverse, remixable, portable, shareable• Programs not completed can be partially recognized and recombined

• Add evidence, reflection as appropriate

• Drill down to specifics, or roll up into larger outcomes

• Combined in badge passports & ePortfolios

• Common standard for skills exchange

• Trustable, easy to understand

– Transparent criteria, evidence, issue/expiry date

– Flexible alignment to frameworks, requirements, training plans

– Issuing organization is validated and branded by the badges it issues;

maintains ongoing connection to earners

– Learner centred, employer friendly

How do I get started?

Are Open Badges for You?Some questions to ask

• Behavioural goals?

– Engagement, feedback, recognition, development...?

– Skills frameworks?

• Value add?

– Worth the effort? Filling a void?

• Redeemable worth?

– What would your badges “buy”?

– Have you talked to employers?

• Champions?

– Internal leadership? Employers in the community?

• Sustainability?

– Cost structure? Who will maintain & improve it over time?

Open Badges and EDC?Inspired by Action Groups...for validation

• Evidence for portfolios

• Flexible recognition of Centre Programs &

Courses for ED professional development?

– SEDA accredited, plus other public/internal

programs & courses

->transparent outcomes, options for embedded

evidence, emerging potential for alignment

• Support for Rewards and Recognition?

• An element of Community of Practice?

– Expertise/interest, mentor/mentee, peer

recognition, online activity...

Getting startedDIY versus Supported

• Do It Yourself

– Explore: earn a badge, display a badge

– Experiment: design a badge, design a small badge system

– Pilot, build internal support, implement

• Supported

– Workshops: “Open Badges 101”, “201”...

– Train the trainer

– Design and implementation support

– Technology support

• Technology choices

– Make your own (open source)

– Software as a Service

Badge Canvas

Design Principles Card Deck

[email protected]

Twitter: donpresant

ePortfolio: donpresant.ca

Savvyfolio.net

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