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Opening presentation for University College London Open Badge design day. Covering: - Problems in educational assessment / recognition - Open badges technology - S2R Medals - an Open Badge case study - Badge design process
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Designing Open Badges 20 March 13 Tim Riches @triches
Via professor Mike Sharples
@triches
Via professor Mike Sharples
@triches
Via professor Mike Sharples
@triches
# Problem 1: How do we capture learning that happens everywhere?
Skills that are in-demand by employers:
“Over 70% of employers want employability skills to become a top education priority.” The CBI
# Problem 2: How can we present a holis@c view of learning & achievements?
# Problem 3: How can we connect talent with opportunity?
What if we used badges for learning?
Badges and the web
> Unlocking rewards…
What are Open Badges?
Open Badges are images with
metadata hard-coded into them
Mozilla!!(global non-profit)!
DISPLAY SITES
personal web site
social networking profiles
WordPress / Tumblr
job sites
Young people’s perspec@ve on badges…
Open Badge Case Study S2R Medals
Digital media + learning compe@@on winners
500 young people, from all over the UK, directly involved so far in this outstanding, award-winning media project.
24,000 young people reached in school through outreach and our Radiowaves partnership
S2R Par@cipants
Local repor@ng…
Ac@vi@es…
Reporters have interviewed hundreds of interesting people and
created over 10,000 reports and blogs
Challenging na@onal events..
Who Knows Us?
www.makewav.es/s2r
QualitaEve assessment of skills by peers/leaders
3 sets Journalist, Coach & Producer
3 levels in each set: Bronze, Silver & Gold
S2R Open Badges
Not pushed out to Open Badge Infrastructure and main value is within community
Granular markers of acEvity
Community Achievements
Student & feedback: Venture Academy
Context
• Academy of around 600 students
• Wanted to create a plaPorm for student voice
• Wanted to echo our Academy rewards culture digitally
why were you interested in piloEng a badge scheme at Ormiston? what skills/achievements can badges recognise and is this useful? what has been good/challenging about using badges? what opportuniEes have badges opened up for you/the students e.g. your interest in expanding badges across the wider rewards system you have operaEng in school.
what potenEal can you see for badges in the future?
Low level S2R Medals and Makewaves Badges are automa@cally awarded
Teachers and Peers can award higher level badges once skills have been achieved
Teachers will also be able to create and award their own badges
How students earn badges
makewav.es/s2r @_S2R #S2RMedals
How teachers award badges
makewav.es/s2r @_S2R #S2RMedals
A Student’s perspec@ve What skills did we learn?
1. Working as a team with people you would not usually mix with
2. Timekeeping and organisaEon
3. Literacy 4. Confidence
Challenges
• MeeEng regularly
• Teachers contribuEng
• The emphasis on sport
Opportuni@es
• Achieving ‘Investors in Pupils’
• CreaEng badges tailored for our Academy:
• Sports Leaders • Accelerated Reader • Student Leadership • Subject Leadership
Badges issued 9 March 2013
“Woohoo I have a lot of makewaves badges now :) I am really proud of myself and if you want some makewaves badges like me get makewaving!” Supermario8 makewav.es/s2r
@_S2R #S2RMedals
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Easy to use Framework and Resources for Teachers
makewav.es/s2r @_S2R #S2RMedals
Badge design process
User perspec@ve design: o Creators o Issuers o Earners o Consumers
Process based design: > Skills, behaviours, acEviEes > Evidence, milestones, levels > MoEvaEon & endorsement > Issuing / assessment > Display > Design
Digital Leader Badges (in-‐progress design)
