Open Badges as Bridges:

Design, Create, Connect

Gráinne Hamilton, Lucy Lewis, Alison Smith, Kevin FieldCC BY-NC 4.0

Scottish MozFest Fringe Event28th October 2015

- Design a badge of value- Create your badge- Connect badges to

opportunities

Aims of the day…

10am - 10.25pm 10.25pm - 10.45pm 10.45pm - 12.15pm 12.15pm - 12.30pm 12.30pm - 1.30pm 1.30pm - 1.45pm 1.45pm - 2.45pm  2.45pm - 3pm3pm - 3.30pm3.30pm - 4pm

Agenda- ‘Your story’ activity

- Badges 101- Design a badge- Badge design discussion - challenges and

opportunities- Lunch- Introduction to the Open Badge Academy- Create and issue a badge - Introduction to badge pathways- Connect badges to create a badge pathway- Feedback and wrap up

Your Story

- Chart your life journey!- Note qualifications,

hobbies, interests, volunteering, jobs, travel etc

- Write your name in the head and stick it on the wall

Using a Badge Story canvas…

- Review your life journey!- What are the common themes?,

eg problem solving, creativity- Write these on a post-it

and stick them beside your story

Review your life!

- Review their life journey!- What are the common themes?,

eg problem solving, creativity- Write these on a post-it

and stick them beside their story

Review your neighbour!

What are Open

Badges?

A web standard which captures & communicates skills and attributes

http://openbadges.org

Capturing and evidencing life-long learning

FormalEducation

InformalLearning

WorkplaceOnline

Learning

School FE HE

CPD, Work Experience, Apprenticeships

Volunteering, Youth Programmes

Courses, Moocs

S2RfS enhances speaking, listening, writing and ICT skills of 11-16 year olds.

S2RfS helps children and young people develop workplace skills like communication, teamwork and managing deadlines.

S2RfS uses digital badges to enable young people to successfully display and transfer their new skills and experience into the world of work.

Where S2RfS has been happening?

Durham CCC Learning Beyond the Boundary

Bolton FC

Huddersfield Town

Hull KC Stadium

Oldham AFC

Leyton Orient FC

Surrey CCC

Norwich City FC

Scunthorpe United FC

Southend FC

Wycombe Wanderers FC

West Ham United FC

S2RfS Digital Badges..."Digital Badges have provided our students with a new and interesting way to showcase their skills and achievements with colleges and employers."

Reach of S2RfS so far

S2RfS has an amazing overall student retention

rate.

Children and young people have benefitted directly from the programme and have demonstrated improved communication and ICT skills.

Digital badges (S2R Medals) issued to date

S2RfS will continue developing as a programme providing free resources that can be used by schools and centres to support their own schemes.Announcing S2RfS Working for Success- A Paul Hamlyn funded programme creating UK pilot centres using opportunities presented by sports clubs to assist young people who are NEET or at the risk of becoming NEET to develop skills and find employment.

Next Steps for S2RfS

Badges systems created with...

University of Sussex - recognise staff CPD

Open Badge applications in UK HE

Edinburgh University Students Association - recognise skills gained by Class Reps and enhance employability

Abertay University - showcase HEAR related activities

University of Dundee - recognise skills gained by students while co-creating the medical curriculum

University of Sheffield - recognise learning in a MOOC. Can be used for a reduction in degree fees and credit towards modules

Challengeswe hope to

address

Meteora Climbing by Stefanos Nikologianis CC BY 2.0 from Flickr

Finding new opportunities

From Flickr by James Cridland

Standing out from the crowd

Forth Bridge Blues by Chris Combe CC BY 2.0 from Flickr

Connecting to opportunities

Design a badge

- Hands up if you have a badge idea you want to design

- Does anyone want to join them?- Don’t have a clue?

- Collect the post-its on the wall

- Group them into common themes

- Join a group around a badge idea

What badge?

Badge Design Canvas

Badge design discussion - challenges

and opportunities

The Open Badge

Academy (OBA)

Learner

Explore Careers

Evidence Skills

Transition to Employment

Educator

Recognise Learning

Build Capabilities

Measure Impact

Employer

Set Industry Challenges

Provide Pathways to opportunities

Endorse Achievements

Build a richer picture of you

OBA launches with TechFuture Academy

Open Badge Academy

Create your badges Learners find your badgeLaunch academy

Share achievementsConnect with work

and educational opportunities

Learners add evidence

Organisations track impact & recruit talent

Discover, earn and share badges on the move

“At the forefront of the Open Badges movement” Mark Surman Mozilla

Badge Design

250 x 250 pixels

Badge set

Employer

ExpertPeer

Multiple validation Evidence-based endorsement

Create and issue a badge

Badge Pathways

Forth Bridge Blues by Chris Combe CC BY 2.0 from Flickr

Open Badges as Bridges:Connect

Webmaker

Expand your digital literacy skills online by learning how to make and remix the web

O2 Think Big

Apply your digital enterprise skills to gain experience to help you transition into employment or enterprise

CPD

Refresh your computing knowledge on the job in order to teach the new computing curriculum

Badges as pathways into employment

SchoolSchools KS4/5 HE / Apprenticeships Career Development

Code Club

Develop an interest in coding through completing simple coding challenges

Activity Badges

Skill badges (two levels)

The YCiF Award

“An ordinary reference, from my college for example, might say that I’m capable of sitting down and learning something. These badges show that I’m sitting down, learning the skill, but then I’m going out and using them in real life situations to make changes.”

- Charlie, 18

“The badges and Award I’ve earned show an employer what I can already do. I’ll be looking for a part time job

when I start my degree my reference could help me to get a higher paid job in an area that I’m really interested in.”

- Abi, 18

Brian loves words, whether those words make up hundreds of lines of code or the sentences of a novel. His job at Mozilla involves a combination of both, since he codes and writes specifications for others who want to use the tools he builds. Words aside, he loves playing games, chopping wood(!) and cooking. Did we mention he rocks a bass (and a wicked hairstyle) in more than one band?

Brian B. Senior Engineer / OBI Architect at Mozilla

Badge-based pathways to employment Mozilla Discovery project

Matt likes breaking things and then putting them back together to improve them. His job as a QA engineer in the Firefox team involves everything from finding things that don't work - otherwise know as bugs - to coordinating projects within the open source community, such as new feature requests. His path is full of different jobs and adventures from rock-climbing to making tofu and being a psychologist at a youth detention centre.

Matt B. Senior QA Engineer at Mozilla

Badge-based pathways to employment Mozilla Discovery project

Follow your interests to find

new opportunities.

Build your capabilities to stand out from the

crowd.

Create your ideal career.

Meteora Climbing by Stefanos Nikologianis CC BY 2.0 from Flickr

From Flickr by James Cridland

Forth Bridge Blues by Chris Combe CC BY 2.0 from Flickr

Exploring the OBA helps earners follow their skills to new opportunities

Badge Academies issue badges to build capabilities for specific groups, e.g.- university students- company employees- apprentices

Employer endorsed badges in the Public Library help earners to connect to career opportunities

- Add other badges that could link to and from the badge you designed

- Look round the room, are there badges you could connect to

- Create badge pathways

Grab a Badge System Canvas and post-its

- Note what you're excited about

- Note what you’re concerned about

- Note what you'd like to explore further

Badges for your organisation

Thanks!

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