This document discusses open badges and their use on Moodle. It provides an overview of open badges, explaining that they are digital representations of achievements, skills, learning, interests and competencies. The document discusses research on open badges in higher education that found students want badges to stand out from peers and be linked to professional accreditation. It also outlines how badges work, who is using them, and provides tips for developing a plan to implement badges, including what to badge, who issues them, designing badges, and choosing an issuing platform.

1. OPEN BADGES & MOODLE
What Why Where When Why but mostly, badges are serious stuff!
Gavin Henrick
Learning Technology Services
http://www.lts.ie

2. Badges are

4. Content
•Why Badges?
•What are Badges?
•How do they work?
•Who is using them?

5. WHY BADGES?

6. Learning
Learning today happens everywhere.
But it’s often difficult to get recognition
for skills and achievements that happen
online or out of school.

7. Mozilla Open Badges
Mozilla Open Badges helps solve that
problem, making it easy for any
organization to issue, manage and
display digital badges across the web.

8. SOME RECENT RESEARCH

9. CITY UNIVERSITY LONDON
A project on Open Badges in Higher Education
Perception and Potential
Dr. Ian Glover – Sheffield Hallam University
Farzana Latif – University of Sheffield

10. City University London Project
•Aim to identify perception and possible
value
•Semi-structured interviews with staff
•Focus groups with students

11. City University London Findings
•Students want to use badges to stand
out from peers
•Desire to link badges to requirements
of professional accreditation
•Important not to issue too many
• each badge must represent genuine
achievement

12. What were the common criticisms?
How can you respond to them?
"Childish"
• plan and design them to be meaningful
"Hard to design without skills"
• simple, free tools available
"Lack of consistency in use"
• set a policy about the requirements for
a badge

13. Reference
http://altc2013.alt.ac.uk/sessions/open-badges-in-higher-
education-perception-and-potential-323/documents/
http://shura.shu.ac.uk/7173/1/Glover_-
_Investigating_perceptions_and_potential_of_open_badge
s_in_formal_higher_education_-_proceeding_112141.pdf
GLOVER, Ian and LATIF, Farzana (2013) Investigating
perceptions and potential of open badges in formal higher
education. In: Proceedings of World Conference on
Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and
Telecommunications 2013. AACE,
Chesapeake, VA, 1398-1402. ISBN 9781939797032

14. WHAT ARE BADGES?

15. CV
I claim that
•I can …
•I learned
•I am able to
•I am competent in
•I took part in …

16. Badges
Badge is a digital proof that
•I can …
•I learned …
•I am able to …
•I am competent in …
•I took part in …

17. Badges
Visual representations of
•Achievements
•Skills
•Learning
•Interests
•Competencies

18. CC BY-SA Kyle Bowen

19. Open Badges
•Not proprietary – using free software
and open technical standard
•Help knit skills together
•Are full of information that can be
verified
•Are portable
•Can be earned from multiple sources

20. HOW THEY WORK

24. WHO IS USING THEM?

25. Who is using Badges
• Over 700 organisations
• Formal and informal educational institutions
• Multinational corporations
• Industry associations
• Non-profits
• Groups interested in Professional development
• 85,000 issued since launch in 2012.

26. LEARN.MOODLE.NET

27. http://edcetera.rafter.com/using-badges-to-quantify-learning-outcomes-at-uc-davis/

28. Jisc RSC Scotland Open Badges series
•Digital Practitioner Series
•Digital Innovator Series
•Digital Leadership
• http://www.rsc-
scotland.org/eassessment/2013/01/15/developing
-the-series-information-and-designs-for-the-jisc-
rsc-scotland-openbadges/

30. P2PU - https://p2pu.org

31. workforce.io

32. Border College
• http://www.rsc-scotland.org/?p=2454 http://www.bolt.ac.uk/

33. Border College – Student vote

35. ENOUGH ALREADY!

36. WE GOT IT.

37. BADGES ARE DIGITAL
PROOFS

38. WHAT NOW?

39. WE NEED A PLAN!

40. We need a plan!
•What to Badge?
•Who will issue Badges?
•Design the Badges
•Issuing platform

41. What to Badge
• What skills, achievements to
promote
• What criteria to use for each badge
• Break it down to a granular level
• Are there relationships between the
badges?

42. Who issues Badges
•Central Department
•Teachers
•Students

43. Platform options
Technical options
•Automated from completion of a course
/ task
•Manual from offline completion
•Manual from wider assessment
•Verification in 1 month, 1 year, 2 years?

44. Designing Badges
•Shapes
•Colours
•Themes
•Icons
•Pathways / Groups
•Branding
See - The Digitalme BadgeCanvas

45. Platform options
Technical options
•Automated from completion of a
course / task
•Manual from offline completion
•Manual from wider assessment

46. BADGE CANVAS -
DIGITALME
http://www.digitalme.co.uk/badgecanvas/

47. Evidence
•What artefact will show the criteria has
been met

48. Skills + Knowledge
•What skills does the badge represent?

49. Behaviours
•What behaviours does the badge
encourage?

50. Criteria
•What do you need to do to earn the
badge?
•Does it expire?

51. Value Proposition
•Why bother earning the badge?
•What opportunities does it unlock?
•What benefits for:
• Earner
• Issuer
• Consumer

52. Endorsers
•Who supports and recognises your
badge?

53. Channels
•Where does a user find out about your
badge?

54. Awarded
•Who awards the badge and how?

55. Users
•Who is the badge for?
•Earner
•Issuer
•Consumer

56. Badge Pathways
•What other badges exist in your eco
system?
•Are there different levels?

57. Resources & Sustainability
•What resources are needed for the
badge to work?
• Technology?
• Expertise?
• Money?

58. Template

59. EXAMPLE

60. STUDENT VIEW

61. Block: My latest badges

62. Profile: My badges

65. TEACHER SIDE

66. Manage Badges

67. Add Badge

68. Badge Criteria

69. Selecting Criteria

70. Enabling a Badge

71. Enabled and Active

72. Badge Recipients

74. Contact
Gavin Henrick
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