A one day design lab to reinvent how we recognize skills across sectors in Ontario. Hosted by eCampusOntario and CanCred.ca. Presentation by Don Presant, President, Learning Agents/CanCred.ca Agenda, Open Badges 101, Examples from Elsewhere: Workforce & Open Recognition Ecosystems

1. November 22, 2017

3. 09:00 Welcome, Open Badges 101
10:00 Workforce
11:00 Youth, Apprenticeship, Adult
12:30 Lunch!
13:15 Post Secondary
14:00 Open Recognition Ecosystems
15:15 Reflection, next steps, final remarks
16:00 End
Agenda

4. #BadgeOntario bit.ly/BadgeOntario2017
K - 12
post-secondary
government
non-profit
for-profit
Housekeeping
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bit.ly/Reflector17-11

5. David Porter, CEO, eCampusOntario
WELCOME

6. Open Badges 101

7. and while you’re listening …

8. Volatile ~ Uncertain ~ Complex ~ Ambiguous (and dangerous)
Learning in a VUCA world
sceptrefellows

9. The future of jobs
World Economic Forum: Future Of Jobs 2016
Across nearly all industries, the
impact of technological and other
changes is shortening the shelf-life
of employees’ existing skill sets.
Overall, social skills—such as
persuasion, emotional intelligence
and teaching others—will be in
higher demand across industries
than narrow technical skills
Top 10 Skills in 2020
1. Complex problem solving
2. Critical thinking
3. Creativity
4. People management
5. Coordinating with others
6. Emotional intelligence
7. Judgment & decision making
8. Service orientation
9. Negotiation
10.Cognitive flexibility

10. WEF: Recommendations for Action
Make HR more strategic – get in front of trends
Inform decisions with data analytics
Implement more flexible, virtual work models
World Economic Forum: Future Of Jobs 2016
SHORT TERM
LONG TERM
Break down educational silos:
• Humanities/Sciences, education/work (WIL, etc.)
Incentivize lifelong learning (time, motivation, means)
Collaborate across sectors

11. Disruption: Education à la carte
www.udacity.com/nanodegree

12. Disruption: LinkedIn Learning
linkedin.com slideshare.net/LinkedIn

13. And in Ontario
theglobeandmail.com

14. Escaping from “seat time”
Competency Based Learning
hbr.org
“… high-quality learning pathways
that are affordable, scalable, and
tailored to a wide variety of current
and emergent industries, based on
competencies, not courses.”
ingegno.in

15. 70: 20: 10 L-i-f-e-w-i-d-e learning
deakinprime.com / wikipedia.org

16. Recognition as a right
“… all kinds of learning and training outcomes deserve
to be valued and validated, regardless of where and
how they were obtained”unesco.org

17. UNESCO
Guidelines for Recognition, Validation and Assessment (RVA)
Equity and inclusiveness
The right to access and engage in any form of learning and have learning outcomes made visible and valued.
Equal value of formal, non-formal and informal learning
Competences from non-formal and informal learning on par with those obtained formally
Centrality of individuals
Respect and reflect individuals´ needs, and their participation should be voluntary
Improve the flexibility and openness of formal education and training
Diverse forms of learning, taking learners’ needs and experiences into account
Quality assurance
Relevant, reliable, fair and transparent
Stakeholder partnerships
Shared responsibility from design through implementation and evaluation

18. Opening up Education
bit.ly/OpeningUpEd
a) issuing a certificate, diploma or
title
b) acknowledging & accepting
credentials, such as a badge, a
certificate, a diploma or title
issued by a third-party

19. Ontario’s call to action
rethinking …
learning
resources credentials
the learning
experience
David Porter, BC Open Badges Forum

20. How do we more
broadly address the
experiential learning
desires of students?
Driving growth and innovation through technology-enabled learning
eCampus Ontario
How do we provide
students with relevant
real-world projects as
practical experiences?
How to we allow employers
to audition student talent
while the students are still
in school?
How can we provide self-managed environments
for supporting experiential learning?
David Porter, BC Open Badges Forum

21. Paper silos: Issues with certification today
freedesignfile.com/92259
Transparency issues
• “Dumb” paper often needs other
documents, e.g. syllabus
• Proxy only – not the whole story
• Easy to forge
Physical issues
• Difficult to share, easy to lose
Recognition issues
• Lack of granularity
• Lack of context - no links to supporting
evidence
• Experiential learning not valued
• Lack of alignment, transfer,
articulation, “stackability”

22. Example: Transcript for graduate employability
ccr.utoronto.ca

23. Trends in professional credentialing
Use technology to:
•reduce waste (paper, effort)
•increase quality
Re-use credential information for:
•onboarding
•HR planning
•performance review
•accreditation
•Quality Assurance, systemic analysis
Enable continuous credentialing
SEER Health: The Future of Provider Credentialing

25. Scouting
Achievement
Heraldry
Affiliations
Blue Light
Authority
Military
Rank & Skills
www.britishbadgeforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7253
metronews.ca/
History of recognition using Badges
Since pre-Roman times ...
Badge Tracking Android App

26. Clear progress markers
 motivating learners, supporting advisors
Flexible learning pathways
 granular, incremental, multi-source, laddered,
remixable
Visual branding
 issuers and earners
Online trust system
 demonstrate skills & capabilities
 proof of performance
 backed by issuer
A digital representation of an accomplishment, interest or affiliation that is visual, available online and
contains metadata including trusted links that help explain the context, meaning, process and result of an
activity.
As an open artefact, the earner can present the badge in different contexts from which it was earned.
Micro-credential – portable record of learning
What is an Open Badge?

27. Some badged learning pathways

28. Mapping badgespace
credentials
digital badges
Open
Badges
micro-
credentials
CC BY Doug Belshaw dougbelshaw.com
Standards-based
& interoperable
No image
requirement

29. Immediate transparency, instant validation
Interactive digital credentials

30. Share on social media
LinkedIn for “résumé worthy” badges
also

31. Some uses of badges (can be combined)
transformingassessment.com/TA_webinar_5_mar_2014_Simon_Cross.pdf
Recognize status
Reputation
Group affiliation
Keep artefacts
Souvenirs of
experience
Motivate
learning
“Game mechanics”
Set goals,
track progress
Personal learning
pathways
Assess &
recognize learning
Formal, non-formal,
informal
Fill recognition gaps

32. v2.0 Open Badge specification
Improved Linked Data / JSON-LD support
• more flexibility, interoperability
Embedded evidence and criteria
• more portability
More flexible recipient identifiers
• email, telephone number, url, profile id
Internationalization and multi-lingual badges
Security improvements, new image metadata for accessibility
Improved alignment to external frameworks and objectives
• by issuer, by consumer/3rd party, can be part of endorsement
Third Party Endorsement
• badge issuer, badge class, badge assertion

33. Badges: transparent lenses for your vision of learning
Quality

34. Badges: transparent lenses for your vision of learning

35. Open Badges: A mosaic of lifelong, lifewide learning
LOW
STAKES
HIGH
STAKES
Volunteer
Experience
Talent
Pipeline
MOOCs
Co-Curricular
Record
Workshops
Admission
to
Post Grad
Schools
Job Hire
Conferences
Formal
Recognition
of Prior
Learning
Career
Transition
Communities
of
Practice
Memberships,
Affiliations
CPD
Certification
“Light
Touch”
Credentials
E-learning
Courses
Awards,
Achievements
Continuing
Education
Employee
Development
… diverse signals of capability and potential

36. Badge taxonomy from Penn State
Chris Long

37. www.badgealliance.org/why-badges/
VISION: a skills network
Open Badges, micro-portfolios in social networks
Going digital helps…
searchingdeconstructingvalidating aligning
sharingcombiningassessing “valorizing”

38. Transforming interests into skills
Supporter to Reporter (S2R-UK)
www.digitalme.co.uk/s2r
Project based learning programme that develops skills and confidence through sports reporting.

39. Beyond grades and standardized tests
High School to PSE transition
slideroom.commedium.com blog.credly.com

40. Trades Certification - City & Guilds/Worldchefs
worldchefs.org/Certification
Issued using
sharable
Open Badges

41. Professionalization & PD
Unregulated:
• AXELOS
• HR Certification Institute
• AACE (total cost management)
• Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
• International Board of Credentialing and
Continuing Education Standards (IBCCES)
• ASIS International
Regulated:
• American Board for Certification in Orthotics,
Prosthetics & Pedorthics
• Institute of Management Accountants
• Association of Clinical Research Professionals

42. Employability soft skills shared on social media
Deakin University Hallmarks
t.co/ior8y5pbqe

43. Professional & Continuing Education, Contract Training
madisoncollege.edu/badges

44. Onboarding, Certification, Leadership, Volunteer recognition…
Professional Community
educause.edu/badging

45. One company mapping talent globally
bit.ly/IBM_HeatMap

46. Market research
technavio.com

47. Open Badges, ePortfolios &“Badge Passports”
Benefits of a new skills currency
Visually efficient and appealing
Engages, builds confidence, provides continuing
feedback
Individual pathways, multiple sources of
learning
Formal non-formal informal learning
Modular, stackable, diverse, re-mixable, portable,
shareable
Programs not completed can be partially recognized
and recombined
Add evidence, reflection as appropriate
Drill down to specifics or roll up into larger outcomes
Combined in badge passports and ePortfolios
Common standard for skills exchange
Trustable, easy to understand
Transparent criteria, evidence, issue/expiry date
Flexible alignment to frameworks, requirements,
training plans
Issuing organization validated and branded by the
badges it issues; maintains ongoing connection to
earners
Learner centred, employer friendly

48. Some questions to ask
Are you a potential Open Badges issuer?
Behavioural goals?
Redeemable worth?
worth the effort? filling a void? marketing ROI?
Value add?
Champions?
Sustainability?
what will your badges “buy”? have you talked to employers? students?
internal leadership? professional bodies? employers?
cost structure? who will maintain & improve it over time?
engagement? feedback? recognition? development? skills frameworks?

49. LMS? *
Make/adapt your own (FOSS)
License & install proprietary SW
Cloud Service
DIY versus Supported
Getting started
Badge Canvas
Design Principles Card Deck
Do It Yourself
Workshops: awareness, train the trainer
Design & implementation support
Technology support
Supported
Technology choices
Explore: earn a badge, display it
Immerse: research, LPP (lurking) in badge community
Experiment: design a badge, design a small badge system
Pilot: build internal support, implement, maintain and improve

50. Open Badges 101: the course
Want more?
badges.thinkoutloudclub.com

51. Tell us what you think in 15 minutes or less!
Weaknesses ?
Strengths?
Opportunities?
Threats?

52. David Suess, CME & Jeff Griffiths, Griffiths-Sheppard
Gina Van Dalen, ITAC Talent and BTM Forum
Alan Bostakian, Great Place to Work
Val Thomas & Lauren Hunter, Talent Cloud, Treasury Board of Canada
Secretariat
Kevin Taylor, College of Respiratory Therapists of Ontario (CRTO)
Workforce

53. Examples from Elsewhere
Workforce

54. Membership, awards, accreditation, certification
thelpi.org/digital-badges/

55. 192,000 workers in Scotland
Regulator & Sector Council
badges.sssc.uk.com/badges
 Work based qualifications: enter with little
education, achieve a degree
 Open Badges to recognized informal learning
 Potential for formalized RPL later

56. Humanitarian Passport Initiative
Open Badges Pilot

57. Global recognition - across agencies & sectors
Humanitarian Passport Initiative
MISSION
“To better enable people to assist communities affected by or vulnerable to crises by facilitating their
access to quality learning and recognition of skills and experience based on professional standards.”
WHAT
Innovative and useful digital space for humanitarians to establish, support & share skills, experience
& learning, using recognized professional development frameworks
WHY
Demonstrably increased professionalisation, service quality
Better employment and volunteering opportunities
Better recruitment and talent development practices
Authentic evidence for continuous improvement

58. Audience

59. Standards, Competencies
Support for professionalizing the sector

60. A system for learning and recognition

61. HPass: incubating an international recognition network
Fed by Learning Portals
Collaboration Centre for
Recognition of Humanitarian
Skills, Learning & Experience
(CH)
Certification for Individuals
And organisational support for
competency-based approaches
Collaboration Centre for
Quality Learning
in Humanitarian Action
(FR)
Accreditation for Organisations
International & Local Learning Providers
“HPass”
(Humanitarian Passport)
A connection hub for
individuals &
organisations

62. Emergent Initiative: MSF’s PLE: “TEMBO”
(OCBA)

63. OCB Career Management Portal
career.msf.be

64. OCB: Technical skills, transversal competencies

65. OCB: Career Pathing

66. Innovations in Career Development:
How Digital Badges are helping IBM to develop its workforce
Marjolein van Eck
Global Talent Leader – Career and Skills Solutions
IBM HR CHQ

67. ‘I work where I get to learn, invent and create every day’
Opportunities for
advancement and professional
development is one of the top
4 things employees seek in a
job
IBM’er EngagementSurvey:
most highly engaged cite
learning and skills
Millennials cite careers and
career progression as the #1
reason in selecting an
employer and deciding how
long to stay
Employees desire formal
training, mentoring, skill
development, and coaching
“
“
“
“
“
“
“
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Why Career and Skill Development?
Source: IBM workforce surveys 67

68. Creating a New Career Culture at IBM
Transparent
Employee transparency to market
demand and opportunities
Informed
Career decisions fueled by real
conversations and cognitive insights
Supported
Employee owned, manager and
organization supported
Experience-Based
Design careers around a
collection of experiences
68

69. 69
“I don’t know how to progress
my career or what skills I should
build. How do I demonstrate my
eminence?”
Jill
Data Scientist
San Francisco, CA
Sid
Solutions Architect, Manager
Bangalore, India
“ I like to hear about what other
people are learning, what
workshops they’ve attended and so
forth. I think, ‘hey, maybe I should
do that too!”
Connects to
Jobs
Visibility
skills
Experiences
jobs Career
info
visibility
Visibility
Talen
t
Opportunity
People
Meaning
Badges provide a career and skills roadmap
69

70. Badge types
70
Knowledge Skills Proficiency Certified* General
Badging is how we will measure resume-worthy IBM skills in the market*Badge emblem for IBM Professional Certification, used at IBM internally and externally. For internal only -- IBM Certification programs linked to
Professions (e.g. Architect, Project Manager) -- another emblem is leveraged.
70

71. Example programs
71© 2017 IBM Corporation 13 October 2017 IBM Confidential
71
Agile
Agile badge family allows IBM to
reward and identify Agilists who have
proven themselves capable of enabling
their teams.
Industry
Industry badges are earned through
application of industry knowledge and
skills in a client or project setting.
IBM Design Thinking badges
IBM Design Thinking Badges recognize
expertise and experience with this
strategic skill.
New collar careers
Digital badge strategy to recognize
essential skills mapped to new collar
job opportunities
Profession Certification
All Enterprise Professions are launching
their badge strategies.
Digital Nation Africa
$70M investment targeting 25M
individuals across four target groups:
 Digital Explorer
 Digital Innovators
 New Collar Jobs
 Startups
All badge proposals are reviewed and prioritized against a set of criteria including
resume worthiness, skills achievement recognition, strategic skills, high business value71

72. Profession Certification
72
Digital
Badges
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level …
Criteria may
be a mix of:
• Education
• Applied
expertise
• Give back
• …
Criteria may
be a mix of:
• Education
• Applied
expertise
• Give back
• …
Criteria may
be a mix of:
• Education
• Applied
expertise
• Give back
• …
Criteria may
be a mix of:
• Education
• Applied
expertise
• Give back
• …
Validation rigor will depend on the criteria elements. Education is generally associated with a test
or assessment. Applied expertise may require review of evidences, by a Manager or SME.
go!as you
‘Badge as you go’. Digital badges may be earned along the journey. Employees can get recognition of their
accomplishments – and share them with the world – as they achieve them.
72

73. 73
Our workforce is
embracing Digital
Badges
Digital Badge demographics
53%ofIBMemployees
•400K Badges issued
•429 Badged activities
•All Business Units
•94% Claim rate
73

74. 113M Impressions ~ 8M 67% Strategic Skills badges 22% Profession badges 14k Giveback badges
Social Media Expertise Shifts Career Milestones Technical Eminence
125% increase 32% badges earned
increase
Upwards trends 139 countries
Enrollments Career Conversations Engagement Skills Registry
The results have exceeded our wildest
expectations
74

75. 75
tracking
progress
earning
& sharing
seeking
badges
Explore Career Paths
and badge programs
Search digital
badges for
(hot) roles and
skills
Collect, store
and organize
earned badges
Keep track of all earned badges and plan next
milestone
Share earned badges, get recognised and
endorsed
75
Employees can discover badges in multiple ways
Discoverability

76. Partnering for formal academic recognition
bit.ly/IBM_HeatMap

77. BREAK: 15 min

78. Tony Calarco & Laurie Hazzard, Technology Enabled Learning in Ontario
Rachel Ryerson, Student Achievement, Ministry of Education
Jim Vanderveken, Mohawk College
Amanda Payne, Competency Portfolio Community Alliance
Grant Jameson, Fairness Commissioner, Ontario
Jeff Griffiths, Griffiths-Sheppard
Martin Picard, Canadian Council of Professional Fish Harvesters
Youth, Apprenticeship, Adult

79. Workforce
Youth, Apprenticeship, Adult
POPUP DESIGN SESSION

80. LUNCH!

81. Michelle Mouton, Durham College
Gavan Watson, University of Western Ontario
Valerie Lopes, Ontario Extend, (Seneca College)
Isabelle Duchaine, Business/Higher Education Roundtable (BHER)
Dana Stephenson, Riipen
Mini Makhija, Student (Student Experience Design Initiative)
Badging Post Secondary Education

82. Serge Ravet, Open Recognition Alliance, reconnaitre.org
Don Presant, CanCred.ca
Mark Patterson, Magnet / Hire Immigrants
Jeff Griffiths, Griffiths-Sheppard
David Porter, eCampusOntario
Open Recognition Ecosystems

83. The Cities of LRNG network

84. Colorado – a cross-sectoral network
DPS presentation

85. Across agencies, across careers – centred on the learner
Talent
Pipeline
Recruitment
Induction
Team Building
Performance Management
Talent Management
Experience
Achievements
Professional Development
Career Development
Leadership
Development
SME Specialization
Career Change
Outplacement
Endorsed
Self/Peer or
3rd Party, e.g.:
HPI, CCQL,
ANSI
Open, Lifewide Learning
MOOCs, Open Ed Resources,
Personal Learning Network,
Coaching/Mentoring,
Communities of
Practice
Demand
Supply
Career
Pathways
Skills
Marketplace
External
Recognition
Local
Learning &
Development
Providers
New
Mission?
New
Role?
HRIS/ERP
Systems
Performance
Management
System
Talent
Management
System
Open
Badges
Humanitarian
Passport
(PLE)
Academic
Recognition?
New
Career?
Some Potential Participants...
Aligned to Standards
& Skills Frameworks

86. Related initiatives
connectingcredentials.org
credentialengine.org
ceds.ed.gov

87. Connecting Credentials – beta Framework
connectingcredentials.org

88. Building blocks available
Essential Employability Skills
Employability Skills 2000+
Connecting Credentials
AAC&U’s VALUE rubrics
European/Scottish/Australian Qualifications Framework
ESCO
Others… ?

89. Displayer API
badges.ecampusontario.ca
REST API / LTI
In Ontario: an emergent network

90. ConEd, CPD
Contract Training
Professional
Education
High
Schools
Community
Colleges
Educational
Consortia
Employers,
Employer
Bodies
Apprenticeship
Authorities
Student
Services
Universities
Faculties,
Departments
PACE
Depts.
Governments
Professional
Bodies
Undergraduate
Studies
Post-Graduate
Studies
Post-Secondary
Preparation
Nonprofits,
NGOs
AssociationsPrivate
Educators &
Trainers
Student Bodies
Sector
Organizations
Standards,
Accreditation
Bodies
Learning Continuum
Recognition, Curation and Transfer: Admission, Transfer, Graduation, Licensure, Continuing Competence, Career Transition,
Credit Transfer, Credit Bank, PLAR, Digital Badges – Open Badges – Skills Passports – ePortfolios
Experiential Learners: Work-Integrated Learning (WIL), Co-Curricular, Extra-Curricular, Lifewide Learning
Diverse Learners: young/old, serial/working/ transition/at risk, domestic/international/refugee, full-time/part-time ...
Open Educational Practices: LMS – ePortfolio – Social Media – “Domain of Your Own”, Open Content: OER, Open Textbook,
Wide Open Internet, Open Learning: “Open Boundary”, xMOOC, Cmooc, Open Assessment, Open Recognition

91. Filling a void – Open Recognition
openrecognition.org
Claim this badgeRead the Declaration – and sign it!

92. BREAK: 15 min

93. Post Secondary
Open Recognition Ecosystems
POPUP DESIGN SESSION

94. PUBLIC DISCUSSION: 30 min
bit.ly/BC2017-Notes

95. The future is already here;
it’s just not very e
venly dis
tributed.
William Gibson
Final thought
en.wikiquote.org

96. THANKS FORALLTHE FISH!
bit.ly/BadgeOntario2017
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