open badges: what's all this, then?
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A presentation to the #weelearning elearning meetup in Bristol on 16th January 2013.TRANSCRIPT
What’s all this, then?
Bristol elearning meetup(16th January 2013)
Doug BelshawMozilla Foundation
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. Doug Belshaw, Badges and Skills Lead at the Mozilla Foundation, talks about Open Badges and their potential in education.
Rationale:
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. Doug Belshaw, Badges and Skills Lead at the Mozilla Foundation, talks about Open Badges and their potential in education.
Rationale:
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. Doug Belshaw, Badges and Skills Lead at the Mozilla Foundation, talks about Open Badges and their potential in education.
Rationale:
Who are you?
Dr. Doug BelshawBadges & Skills LeadMozilla Foundation
Mozilla!(global non-profit)
The Problem
Silo 1
Silo 2
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Silo 1
Silo 2
Silo 3
Degree
LinkedInrecommendation
PRINCE2qualification
Silo 1
Silo 2
Silo 3
Degree
LinkedInrecommendation
PRINCE2qualificationWhat skills/
attributes are missing here?
(and can we present them in a holistic way?)
Towards a Solution?
What if we usedbadges for learning?
Not just digital badges but Open Badges
Open Badges are images with metadata hard-coded into them
Visual representations ofachievements, learning, skills,
interests, competencies
Open Badges can complementtraditional
education practices
They can accommodateformal & informallearning pathways
They can represent hard & softskills, peer assessment, and stackable lifelong learning
Open Badges can capture learning wherever & however itoccurs—allowing for innovation
StealthAssessment
Open Badges?(What about degrees, certificates, diplomas?)
Not simply either/or—both/and!
workforce.io
How do we get there?
Through a shared badge ecosystem & infrastructure:
a universal standard.
OpenBadgeInfrastructure(OBI)
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
EndorsersIssuersEarners
Displayers
Who’s involved?
BADGE DISPLAY SITES
SUCCESS
Any questions for me yet?
BADGES!
What’s next?
The future.
Now!
On Twitter: @dajbelshaw
Via email: [email protected]
Ask me hard questions!
http://openbadges.org
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges
https://groups.google.com/d/forum/openbadges
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