open badges: a new way to recognise skills and achievements

Learning Desire Engines

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Habits of Learning

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Via professor Mike Sharples

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Via professor Mike Sharples

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Via professor Mike Sharples

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How do we design education to develop the behaviours that matter?

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Content Behaviours

b=matDr. B. J. Fogg Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab

Learning desire engine

Nir Eyal: Desire Engines

Trigger Action

RewardInvestment

Nir Eyal Desire Engine

Learning desire engine

Nir Eyal Desire Engines

Badges are a visual representation of rewards

Open Badge Project:

S2R: UK’s youth sports reporting 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 reporting…

Activities…

Reporters have interviewed hundreds of interesting people and

created over 10,000 reports and blogs

Challenging national 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 contribution to the S2R community

Overview

Not pushed out to Open Badge Infrastructure and main value is within community

Granular markers of activity

Community Achievements

Qualitative assessment of skills by peers/leaders

3 sets Journalist, Coach & Producer

3 levels in each set: Bronze, Silver & Gold

Medals

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Unlocking value for the learner through badge display

• Employment• Differentiation• Social status

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Coding, science missions, ecological projects….

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“Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten”B.F. Skinnerwww.digitalme.co.uktim.riches@digitalme.co.uk@triches