Mozilla Open Badges are a web standard for capturing and communicating skills through digital badges. Open badges can be earned for both formal qualifications and informal learning experiences. The badges are owned by the user, can be created and issued by anyone, and stored in a portable backpack that learners can share online. Over 300,000 badges have been issued by 2,000 issuers to 52,395 backpacks since 2012, demonstrating significant growth in adoption. Open badges are being used across education and industry to motivate learning and recognize a wide range of accomplishments.

2. 1. What are
open badges?

5. Mozilla Open
Badges: a web
standard which
captures &
communicates skills

6. Silo 1 Silo 2
Silo 4
Formal
qualifications
After school
club certificates
Online
learning
Silo 3
Professional
development

7. How do they work?

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13. Mozilla’s Open Badge Infrastructure

14. www.backpack.openbadges.org

16. What makes Open
Badges different?
1. Open &free skills communication
standard
2. Anyone can create open badges
3. Data is owned byusers

17. Who is using Open
Badges?

18. Some of the organisations
involved in the ecosystem

19. 300,000 +
badges issued

20. 2000 issuers

21. 52,395
Backpacks

22. 1400% Growth
since Nov 2012

23. 120 partners

24. 2. Badges in
Action

25. School Badges

26. Makewaves is the
leading safe social
learning platform
Whether posting
photos via the App,
submitting a video
competition entry to the
WWF Channel, or live
blogging from the
Olympics, Makewaves
provides a fun, easy to
use way to engage
learners worldwide.

31. Competition Winner
Only UK Badge platform
50,000 badges awarded
since Jan 2013
23,000 students have earned a
badge from over 1000 schools

32. Industry
Badges

36. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9LumZi0Gps

37. Badge Ecosystems

38. http://www.chicagosummeroflearning.org/

41. 3. Badges & Value

44. “Badges have added value to teaching and
learning at Roscoe Primary School by
motivating and engaging our pupils…it has
inspired pupils to try new things in order to be
awarded a badge”
Headteacher, Roscoe Primary School
“I like badges – they are symbols of something
you have done and are proud of.”
Pupil

49. #6 Findability

51. 3. Free Tools to
get started…

52. Badge design process
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53. www.makebadg.es

54. http://openbadges.org

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