are badges the future of informal recognition niace 2012

Mozilla'Open'Badges'–''The$future$of$informal$accredita1on?'

Presenter:$Tim$Riches$

@triches$#openbadges$

Tim.riches@digitalme.co.uk$

Innovating Learning 4 Dec 2012

What are Open Badges?

http://buff.ly/RwCae9 !

Overview Learning today happens everywhere. But it's often difficult to get recognition for skills and achievements that happen online or out of school. Mozilla Open Badges helps solve that problem, making it easy for any organization to issue, manage and display digital badges across the web.

What if we used badges for learning?

Not just digital badges but

Open Badges

Open Badges are images with metadata hard-coded into them

Visual representations of achievements, learning, skills,

interests, competencies

They can represent hard & soft skills, peer assessment, and stackable lifelong learning

Open Badges can capture learning wherever & however it occurs—allowing for innovation

How do we get there?

Through a shared badge ecosystem &

infrastructure: a universal standard.

BADGE DISPLAY SITES !

SUCCESS!

after-school program! free online course! government agency!

DISPLAY SITES!

personal web site!

social networking profiles!

WordPress / Tumblr!

job sites!

RESULTS!

new "learning!

unlock opportunities!

jobs!

Who’s involved?

http://openbadges.org

The future.

Designing'Open'Badges'(Workshop)'

DigitalMe'Open'Badge'Project:'

S2R:$UK’s$youth$sports$repor1ng$channel$

S2R changes young people’s lives through sports reporting. Encourages aspiration, teamwork, resilience and creativity. Gives reporters a legacy of life and job skills, confidence, motivation,

friends and fun!!

Local'repor>ng…''

Ac>vi>es…'

Reporters have interviewed hundreds of interesting people and !

created over 10,000 reports and blogs!

Challenging'na>onal'events..'

www.makewav.es/s2r$

Young$people$can$obtain$S2R$‘Medals’$in$3$sets:$

Journalist,'Producer'&'Coach''

En$route$to$gaining$Medals$students$will$

gather$‘Achievements’$for$their$contribu1on$to$the$S2R$community$

Overview'

Not$pushed$out$to$Open$

Badge$Infrastructure$and$

main$value$is$within$

community$

Granular$markers$of$

ac1vity$

Community'Achievements'

Qualita1ve$assessment$of$

skills$by$peers/leaders$

3$sets$Journalist,'Coach'&$Producer'

3$levels$in$each$set:$Bronze,'Silver'&'Gold'

Medals'

@triches$

Unlocking'value'for'the'learner'through'badge'display$

• $Employment$

• $Differen1a1on$• $Social$status$

@triches$

“Education is what survives when what has been learnt has

been forgotten”!B.F. Skinner www.digitalme.co.uk!

tim.riches@digitalme.co.uk!@triches !