creating learning pathways with open badges
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Introduction
Learning Pool DLE
What are
Open
Badges?
Recognition
• Paper based
• Easy to create
• Easy to display
• Difficult to verify
Badges…Visual representations Skills
Learning
Competencies
Qualities
Achievements
Interests
Digital badges:
“ an online representation of
a skill you’ve earned”
Open Badges take the idea further:
“skills are verified through
a credible organisation”.
Open Badges
• Led by Mozilla Organisation
• Open, online standard for verifying skills, learning, interests and achievements
• Images with Metadata hard-coded into them
• Recognise formal or informal learning
• Collect badges from multiple sourcesinto a single backpack and share through social networks
How it works….
Training
Online Learning
Volunteer Programs
Learner
Open Backpack
Open
Backpack
Share to social networks and other websites
Job Opportunities
Lifelong Learning
New Possibilities
How it
works….
CVs are a bunch of
claims
Open Badges are a bunch of evidence
Who is using them?
Who is using them?
Who is using them?
Who is using them?
Learning
Pathways
and Badges
Steps to take
• Define clear criteria/definition of achievement to
earn a badge
• Be clear on what is to be achieved
• Build the framework
• Publicise!
Badging ecosystems
Define your standards
Validate
Verify
Authenticate
Standards from in house, QCF, external bodies
How do we validate the competencies that have been defined?
Who ensure that the badging system is operating correctly within the organisation?
Are the badges being displayed authentic and from the sources they say they are from?
Learning pathways using badging ecosystems
Flat form
badges are not dependant on each other
Dependent
Key badges are dependant on other badges
+ =X Y Z
Learning pathways using badging ecosystems
Levelled
Graded badges with increasing difficulty
Learning pathways using badging ecosystems
Meet the Academy
The Learning Pathway
How we did it…
• Badges awarded via Learn@NCH
• Learn@NCH profiles linked to an Open Backpack
• Recipients show off their achievements!
Badge to be issued for evidence
Badging and NVQs
Module Unit 201 – DiversityUnit 203 - Health and
Safety
E-learning modules to be completed to underpin knowledge
Equality and Diversity
Health and Safety Essentials
Fire Safety
Manual Handling
What else?
Open Badges
www.openbadges.org
Learning Pool
www.learningpool.com
Open Badges MOOC
www.courseites.com
Open Learn
www.open.edu/openlearn/
Barclays Digital Driving Licence
www.digitaldrivinglicence.barclays.co.uk
City & Guild Tech Bac
www.techbac.com/