Meggie Wright, Oregon State University
Nate Otto, Indiana University
The Mozilla Foundation’s Open Badges are a new technology that makes it possible for anyone to issue, earn, and display proof of an educational achievement. Open Badges are digital tokens, like merit badges you might receive in the real world. They can be displayed on websites, job sites, and social media. Badges can be used to tell a clear, verifiable story about learning accomplishments, something that degrees and resumes often fail to do. Badges are shaking up education wherever and whenever learning happens, including in libraries. In this digital workshop, find out how badges work, set up a “backpack,” earn your first badge, and think about how this technology may impact our institutions’ roles in the learning ecosystem.
2. Open Badges Open Doors
Nate Otto
Meggie Wright
Project Coordinator
Design Principles Documentation Project
Indiana University
Reference Librarian
Oregon State University
3. The goal for this
session:
“Less Yack, More Hack”
Mozilla Foundation’s MozFest Slogan
5. Design Principles Documentation Project
Daniel Hickey
Principal Investigator
Nate
Otto
Rebecca
Itow
Andi
Rehak
KaterinaSc
henke
Cathy
Tran
Christine
Chow
6. Design Principles Documentation Project
Out Now: January Interim Report
Goal: To find out how
organizations are using digital
badges in learning programs.
7. Design Principles Documentation Project
Four functions of digital badge systems
The DPD Project is
studying how 30
badge initiatives
designed and
implemented
practices to fulfill
these functions in
their badge
systems.
• Recognizing Learning
• Assessing Learning
• Motivating Learning
• Studying Learning
24. Interested parties can view
relevant evidence and artifacts
through links in a badge’s
metadata.
25.
26. “A digital badge is an online
representation of a skill you’ve
earned… [that] allows you to verify
your skills, interests and
achievements through credible
organizations.”
Here’s another
definition
Mozilla Foundation - About Open Badges
27. Credible organizations:
• Academic institutions
• Youth organizations
• Standardized test issuers
• Professional organizations
• Libraries!
31. Collect, Organize and Share
The backpack
knows that there
is metadata
embedded in
the badges…
Let’s look at this
badge for
aquaponics “water
basics”
42. The badge system will enable
librarians and library workers to “gain
recognition for the new
competencies, capacities and
skills they are developing in a
nontraditional setting”
YALSA grant proposal to the DML Competition
43. YALSA Competencies for
Librarians Serving Youth
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Leadership and Professionalism
Communication, Outreach and Marketing
Knowledge of Client Group
Administration
YALSA had
Knowledge of Materials
previously defined
7 competencies
Access to Information
they think are
necessary for
Services
serving youth.
44. “The competencies outline the skills
and knowledge teen services
librarians need to have in order to
provide excellent service to this
unique age group.”
YALSA grant proposal to the DML Competition
45. YALSA Competencies for
Librarians Serving Youth
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Leadership and Professionalism
Communication, Outreach and Marketing
Knowledge of Client Group
Administration
They plan to
Knowledge of Materials create a badge for
each competency.
Access to Information
Services
46. YALSA Competencies for
Librarians Serving Youth
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Leadership and Professionalism
Communication, Outreach and Marketing
Knowledge of Client Group
Administration
Knowledge of Materials
…starting with
Access to Information
these three
Services
47. This is the badge for
“Communication,
outreach & Marketing”
And the
outcomes it
represents.
Communicator Badge Outcomes
• Effectively use social media and mobile technologies
in order to advocate for the age group
• Effectively use social media and mobile technologies
to inform teens about what a library has to offer
• Understand how to select the best technology tool in
order to successfully get a message out to a specific
audience and for a specific purpose.
• Use a variety of tools to identify the needs and
interests of underserved teens
53. "...in their yearly employee
evaluation or goal-setting
process..."
Sarah Flowers, YALSA President 2011-12
54. "...on web pages or blogs..."
Sarah Flowers, YALSA President 2011-12
55. "...or in some other way that
showcases the work they’ve
done.”
Sarah Flowers, YALSA President 2011-12
56.
57. What are some benefits of
using badges?
How do they relate to
libraries?
58. Badges let you recognize
skills learned outside of
your formal schooling.
At YALSA, librarians earn
badges for competencies
through informal continuing
education and on-the-job
experience.
59. Badges let you recognize
micro-level skills and
achievements.
With badges, skill and
achievement recognition
can be more in-depth,
complex, and nuanced than
traditional methods like
degrees and transcripts.
60. Badges let learners show
off each achievement in
the right context.
Earners can pick and choose
which badges to display to tell
the story thattheywant to tell, just
as one might tailor a resume to
different job positions.
67. Where and how could badges fit in libraries?
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68. Badges let you recognize skills
learned outside of your formal
schooling.
Badges let you recognize micro-level
skills and achievements.
Badges let learners show off each
achievement in the right context.
69. What skills do library workers
learn on the job at your
institution?
87. What do you think? Let us know!
Thomas Hawk (cc-by-nc)
88. Nate Otto
Meggie Wright
Project Coordinator
Design Principles Documentation Project
Indiana University
Reference Librarian
Oregon State University
@ottonomy
@MeggieWright
Notas del editor
…This is hard to explain sometimes.
This is hard to explain sometimes…
Here’s a badge I’ve earned that I have displayed in my badge collection.
Use this diagram to explain how the the badge (which means “___ can operate a web browser with celerity”) moves through the ecosystem.
Digging deep into evidence
YALSA, a division of the ALA focusing on young adult services
The goal of YALSA’s badge system is to issue badges to librarians and library workers to recognize developing competencies that they’ll use in serving young adults.
{read quote} Ok, so YALSA’s badges recognize what librarians and library workers learn on the job about serving youth. This covers people who have received their library degree as well as non-librarians.
YALSA had a pre-existing framework of competencies they felt Youth librarians should develop.
Often these skills are developed once librarians have gotten a job serving young adults.
YALSA had these 7, planning to issue a badge as library workers demonstrated each competency.
They’re starting with these three, {list} and then expanding the system to the full 7 once it gets going
For each of the competencies, they already had defined outcomes they wanted librarians to demonstrate, like this badge for “Communication, Outreach & Marketing”. When YALSA issues this badge, they’re making a claim that the earner can perform these skills on the job. These are specific things, what a lot of people in the badging community call granular skills, in contrast to big credentials like degrees that recognize many skills and experiences at once.
Fill in who are the players in this diagram.Badge issuer = YALSA, national professional organizationBadge earner = librarians and library workers serving young adultsAudience = ?????
Fill in who are the players in this diagram.Badge issuer = YALSA, national professional organizationBadge earner = librarians and library workers serving young adultsAudience = ?????
This is what YALSA had to say about it: {quote}
The goal of YALSA’s badge system is to issue badges to librarians and library workers to recognize developing competencies that they’ll use in serving young adults.
I see this as being very relevant to libraries, as much as what libraries do is helping others learn outside of the sphere of formal education.
Telling a more complex, nuanced story about a person’s learning. Compared to traditional degrees, which is a slip of paper, maybe a transcript. Badges include proof of specific achievements, often linked to the evidence of that achievement. You don’t usually get that with a traditional bachelor’s degree.
You can pick and choose which badges to display to tell the story that you want to tell, just as you might tailor your resume to different job positions. Badges can also be used in different online contexts: online resume, portfolio, blog, etc.
What could you say about the librarians who planned this event?What would
LibrarianJessamyn West uploaded this one. People teaching and learning computer skills in the library. The man on the right learned how to organize and reply to email. The woman on the left learned how to save and reopen text documents. Who might earn a badge here?