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How to issue your own Open Badges

Robert Stewart Workforce Development Adviser

Coming up…

• Introduction

• Opportunities for Open Badges

• Websites and software to issue Open Badges

• Tips for a successful Open Badges programme

• Questions

A recording and handouts will be available afterwards.

#OpenBadges

Robert Stewart Presenter

• Workforce Development Adviser (Learning Technologies)

• Leads the SSSC’s Open Badges work and supports the adoption of badges within the sector.

• robert.stewart@sssc.uk.com

• @DigialiTay

Scottish Social Services Council – a protected public, a professional workforce

We:

• publish the national codes of practice for people working in social services and their employers

• register people working in social services and make sure they adhere to our codes of practice

• promote and regulate the learning and development of the social service workforce

• are the national lead for workforce development and planning for social services in Scotland.

Find out more about us at http://www.sssc.uk.com

About Open Badges

• digital records of your achievements and skills

• link to your assessment and evidence

• recognise both your formal and informal learning

• give tangible value to the reflection you put into learning from different sources.

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Implementing Open Badges to assist learners badge

To earn this badge you will need to:

• take part in an SSSC webinar or session about issuing Open Badges

• tell us about something you learned during the webinar or session (50 words)

• tell us how you plan to share your learning and promote Open Badges (50 words).

Apply at http://badges.sssc.uk.com

Opportunities for Open Badges

Why issue Open Badges?

Recognise non-certified learning

Use games to encourage learning

Recognising peer assessment

Badges carry your brand and link back to your website

In time, learners will expect them

Incentivising learning

Accrediting informal continuous professional development

Indicate progress towards career goals

Identify an individual’s expertise

Gather evidence to help evaluate learning experience

Allow people to show evidence of informal learning

A consistent approach to recognition of informal or online learning

Events, sessions and webinars

• Good opportunities to pilot badges.

• Provide recognition to participants. • You might offer multiple badges for

workshops, pre-event work, post-event work or reporting the event on social media.

• When people share their badges, they are promoting the messages from your event.

• Badges can be more than certificates of attendance.

Events – evidence of learning

Incentivise employee learning

• Use badges to provide recognition for non-

certified learning: • induction • speciality in-house learning sessions • refresher learning.

• Borders College – increase in attendance at

sessions that were badged. http://www.rsc-scotland.org/?p=2454

• SSSC used evidence gathered from badge applications to demonstrate the difference the Carer Aware sessions made.

Employee reward

• Badges based on organisation values.

• ‘Campaign’ medals.

• Recognise the skills and development of volunteers.

Recognition for online and app based learning

• Badges can provide recognition for self-directed online/app learning.

• Badges can allow learners to prove they understand the subject.

Tom Kuhlmann - http://blogs.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/the-3-essential-questions-every-learner-wants-answered/

• Evidence can be grounded in real world application.

• Evidence provided by badge applications can be used to evaluate the

impact of the learning resource – not just counting hits and downloads.

• SSSC tablet apps are now badged.

Assessment attributes

Traditional

• Selecting a response

• Contrived

• Recall/Recognition

• Instructor structured

• Indirect evidence

Authentic • Performing a task

• Real life

• Construction/Application

• Learner structured

• Direct evidence

We can badge this

Encourage behaviour

• Badges, not just Open Badges, are known to steer and encourage

behaviour.

• Cornell University paper has some useful lessons on using badges. https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/www13-badges.pdf

• Open Badges used by University of Sussex to encourage academic staff to use Twitter. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/tel/help/10dottel/badges

How would you like to use badges?

1. Events and conferences 2. In-house learning, induction etc 3. Online learning or apps 4. Employee reward 5. Encouraging behaviour 6. All of the above Use the WebEx chat box to respond with your answer (1,2 or 3 etc)

Is there any other way you might want to use badges?

Use the WebEx chat box to respond with your answer.

Websites and software to issue Open Badges

It’s easier than you might think!

Badge systems

• A website or piece of software that is used to create and award badges.

• Most badge systems allow you to:

• create badges • display the badges you have on offer • allow people to apply for your badges • issue badges to people • view the badges you have issued and basic statistics.

• You can use one of the existing badge systems (remotely hosted) or

create your own (self hosted).

Remotely-hosted options

• Quick to setup and require little technical knowledge.

• Free and low-cost options are available.

• Some options allow badges to be issued via smartphones and tablets.

• The perfect option for pilots or testing.

Credly – https://www.credly.com

Open Badge Factory - https://openbadgefactory.com

Open Badge Academy - https://www.openbadgeacademy.com/

Badge List - http://www.badgelist.com/

Self-hosted options

• Will require some technical knowledge to setup and manage.

• Give you complete control.

• Requires long-term commitment if your badges are to be useful to learners.

• The SSSC Open Badges system is self-hosted.

BadgeOS for Wordpress - http://badgeos.org

Moodle - http://moodle.org and Totara - https://www.totaralms.com

Mozilla Badge Kit -https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges-badgekit/wiki/BadgeKit-Self-Hosting-Guide

Other resources and websites to help you

• DigitalME’s Open Badge Canvas can guide you through the creation of your badges. http://www.digitalme.co.uk/badgecanvas

• Open Badge designer can help you quickly create an image for your badge. https://www.openbadges.me/

Which will you choose for your badge system?

A. Remotely hosted – We will use one of the existing services.

B. Self hosted – We will build our own.

Use the WebEx chat box to respond with your answer (A or B)

Are there any other Open Badge websites or software you might use?

Use the WebEx chat box to respond with your answer.

Tips for a successful Open Badges programme

Sustainability

• Your badge system should be separate from any other website – it needs to last longer.

• Don’t allow URLs to break.

• Open Badges are not a ‘trade secret’ – bring others on board. Share the load.

• Use the DigitalMe Open Badge Canvas to make sure sustainability is considered for each badge you issue.

Make your badges easy to find

• Consider sub domains like badges.yourdomain.com

• Mention in course materials, conference packs and presentations.

• Posters, postcards and flyers.

• Encourage people to share the badges they earn.

Encourage sharing from day one

• Tell learners to share their badges on social media eg Twitter, LinkedIn, Yammer etc.

• Explain that ePortfolio systems like Mahara and PebblePad allow Open Badges to be imported.

• Point learners to:

• Mozilla Backpack

https://backpack.openbadges.org

• Open Badge Passport https://openbadgepassport.com

Give learners ownership

• Allow learners to change email address.

• Allow learners to export their badges.

• Allow learners a variety of formats (audio, video, blog etc) to provide their evidence.

• Criteria and evidence pages should be accessible from outside your organisation.

Allow people to take the online offline

• PDF / printable certificates for each badge.

• Transcripts listing all badges, URLs for the learner to download email or print.

• Use QR codes to link PDF / printable certificates back to criteria and evidence webpages.

Make it easy for people to use

• Receiving an Open Badge should be a simple process. If possible:

• attach the badge directly to the email

• only require logins or registration if learners need to perform tasks like download multiple badges or change email address.

• Provide advice and guidance to learners on what badges are and how they can use them.

Allow others to issue your badges

• Supervisors and managers can be better placed to assess evidence than central teams.

• Where you have large numbers of learners, increasing the number of people who can issue badges will help solve problems of scale.

• Some badge systems make issuing badges easy. And this can even be done via smartphones!

• You can sample badges that have been awarded to make sure quality judgements are being made.

Make sure every badge includes evidence

• Evidence moves badges from novelty to utility.

• Encourages learners to record and store evidence of learning that might be useful to them in the future – CPD, RPL etc.

• Essential to evaluation of the learning experience.

Involve learners, supervisors and people who use services

• Get them involved at the start of the design phase.

• Invite them to submit ideas for new badges.

• Involve them in the evaluating the success of your badges.

• Don’t be afraid to change the criteria or evidence requirements for a badge if feedback calls for it.

Evaluate

• Always look for feedback from your learners about: • your Open Badge system

• the process/experience of receiving a badge

• how they are using the badges.

• Are some badges more popular than others? Why?

• Is the evidence being gathered useful to learners and your

organisation?

Which of these is most important to you?

1. Sustainability

2. Badges that are easy to find

3. Giving ownership to the learner

4. Blending the online and offline worlds

5. Encouraging learners to share their badges

6. Making it all easy to use

7. Scalability

8. Evidence

9. Involving learners, supervisors and people who use services

10. Evaluation

Use the WebEx chat box to respond with your answer (1,2 or 3 etc)

Is there anything you would add?

Use the WebEx chat box to respond with your answer.

Questions

You can also email me at robert.stewart@sssc.uk.com

Implementing Open Badges to assist learners badge

To earn this badge you will need to:

• take part in an SSSC webinar or session about issuing Open Badges

• tell us about something you learned during the webinar or session (50 words)

• tell us how you plan to share your learning and promote Open Badges (50 words).

Apply at http://badges.sssc.uk.com

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