Open Badges (Centre for Recording Achievement webinar, 28 February 2013)

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What’s all this, then?

28th February 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 recording educational achievement.

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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 recording educational achievement.

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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 recording educational achievement.

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Who are you?

Dr. Doug BelshawBadges & Skills LeadMozilla Foundation

@dajbelshawdoug@mozillafoundation.org

Mozilla!(global non-profit)

The Problem

Silo 1

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Degree

LinkedInrecommendation

PRINCE2qualification

Silo 1

Silo 2

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Degree

LinkedInrecommendation

PRINCE2qualificationWhat skills/

attributes are missing here?

(and can we present them in a holistic way?)

Towards a Solution?

MozFest 2010http://mozillafestival.org

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

CC BY-SA Kyle Bowen

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

CC BY SA Kyle Bowen

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

http://openbadges.org

Any questions for me yet?

BADGES!

What’s next?

The future.

Now!

On Twitter: @dajbelshaw

Via email: doug@mozillafoundation.org

Ask me hard questions!

http://openbadges.org

http://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges

https://groups.google.com/d/forum/openbadges

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