This document provides an agenda and overview for an event on open badges. The event aims to help participants design, create and connect badges to opportunities. The agenda includes sessions on badge design, creating and issuing badges, and connecting badges to create pathways. It also describes open badges as a way to capture skills from formal and informal learning. Participants will engage in activities to chart their own skills and design a badge, and will learn about using open badges to showcase achievements and find new opportunities.

1. Open Badges as Bridges:
Design, Create, Connect
Gráinne Hamilton, Lucy Lewis, Alison Smith, Kevin Field
CC BY-NC 4.0
Scottish MozFest Fringe Event
28th October 2015

2. - Design a badge of value
- Create your badge
- Connect badges to opportunities
Aims of the day…

3. 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 - 3pm
3pm - 3.30pm
3.30pm - 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

4. Your Story

5. - 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…

6. - 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!

7. - 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!

8. What are Open
Badges?

9. A web standard
which captures &
communicates
skills and attributes

11. http://openbadges.org

12. Capturing and evidencing life-long learning
Formal
Education
Informal
Learning
Workplace
Online
Learning
School FE HE
CPD, Work Experience,
Apprenticeships
Volunteering, Youth
Programmes
Courses, Moocs

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

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

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

19. 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

20. 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."

21. 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

22. 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

23. Badges systems created with...

24. University of Sussex - recognise staff CPD
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

25. Challenges
we hope to
address

26. Meteora Climbing by Stefanos Nikologianis CC BY 2.0 from
Flickr
Finding new opportunities

27. From Flickr by James Cridland
Standing out from the crowd

28. Forth Bridge Blues by Chris Combe CC BY 2.0 from Flickr
Connecting to opportunities

29. Design a badge

30. - 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?

31. Badge Design
Canvas

32. Badge design
discussion -
challenges and
opportunities

33. The Open Badge
Academy (OBA)

34. 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

35. OBA launches with TechFuture Academy

36. Open Badge Academy
Create your badges Learners find your badgeLaunch academy
Share achievements
Connect with work and
educational opportunities
Learners add evidenceOrganisations track impact
& recruit talent

44. Discover, earn and share badges
on the move

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

46. Badge Design
250 x 250 pixels

47. Badge set

48. Employer
ExpertPeer
Multiple validation Evidence-based endorsement

49. Create and
issue a badge

50. Badge
Pathways

51. Forth Bridge Blues by Chris Combe CC BY 2.0 from Flickr
Open Badges as Bridges:
Connect

52. 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

54. Activity Badges
Skill badges (two levels)
The YCiF Award

56. “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

57. 57

58. 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

59. 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

60. 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

61. Exploring the OBA helps
earners follow their skills
to new opportunities

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

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

64. - 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

65. - Note what you're excited about
- Note what you’re concerned
about
- Note what you'd like to explore
further
Badges for your
organisation

66. @digitalme_