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Announcing Mozilla BadgeKit Conference 2014 Videos Keynote Address: Dr Daithí Ó Murchú Keynote Address: Dr Deirdre Butler & Dr Michael Hallissy Capstone Presentation – Sparking the Imagination Sound Effects [Caroline Carswell] Living Schools Lab Project – Showcasing good ICT practice in schools and exploring ways to upscale and mainstream this in other schools [Karin Whooley & Sarah-Jayne Carey] Making and Managing MOOCs: An Experience from the Udder-side [Mark Brown] Online Resources for Active and Inclusive Learning, incorporating JC Key Skills and SSE [Siobhan O'Sullivan] Rolling With the Punches: Integrating New Technology into a Chicago Public School Classroom [Alex Selkirk] ‘Dance like the waves of the sea’ – Ten top tech tips by WB Yeats [Dughall McCormick] Using “Badges” for sustainable Professional Development for Teachers [Mark Glynn] Back to Top

Evidencing Employability Skills with Open Badges | Jisc RSC Scotland e-Assessment Concerns, Possible Solutions, Paradigm Shifts and Key Findings There was focused and lively discussion at the Open Badges: Ways to Evidence Employability event I co-facilitated at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) this week. Alongside Tom Caira, Chair of the Industry Advisory Board for Computing and Frances Rowan, Stakeholder Manager (Careers and Employability Service) from UWS, we brought together over 50 technology employers (Directors from multinational and local companies), students, educators and members of the Open Badges in Scottish Education Group (OBSEG) to consider if Open Badges could provide a useful way of highlighting employability skills and attributes employers are looking for. Commencing with an ice-breaker activity we split into groups and asked students to say what attributes they thought employers might look for in potential employees, then employers commented on what they are looking for. Concerns Possible solutions From Flickr by Doug Belshaw Paradigm shift

Badges/Onboarding-Earner A. Mozilla Open Badge Infrastructure (OBI) Why Are We Doing This? Learners are learning everywhere -- but most of that learning doesn't "count" Skills assessment and communication is limited in current system, e.g. GPA, GED, Bachelor or Master degrees, static resume There are few alternatives to the current accreditation/credentialing system Learning doesn’t happen simply between K - 12 and university; learning happens over the course of a lifetime and frequently in informal settings Goals Description Enabling learners to earn badges wherever they're learning across the web requires support for multiple individual badge issuers. The OBI is built in node.js using express. Diagram Overview Issuer issues a badge on their site, then prompts the Badge Earner to push the badge into their Backpack for portability. Badge The core currency of exchange. Open Badge Infrastructure (OBI) Badge Backpack Metadata Spec The definition of what makes up a badge. Badge Baking Issuer API Verification API Endorsement API

Open Badges for Training & PD - Savvyfolio.net Making a Market for Competency-Based CredentialsCorporation for a Skilled Workforce (2013?)Great overview of the state of practice in the United States and makes a case for doing better. Cites Mozilla Open Badges, US Dept of Labor Competency Models, credential stacking. Some good visuals. Digital “Badges” Emerge as Part of Credentialing’s FutureProfessional Examination Service www.ProExam.org Research Brief - ProExam Digital Micro-Credential Market Research (November 2012)Professional Examination Service - research study of employers cited in white paper above"ProExam Digital Micro-Credentials were seen as taking “the fluff off the badges” and giving them real meaning....a secure, embedded linkthat would provide a validation of both the authenticity of the credential as well as its current status."

Home - Savvyfolio.net Open Badges in Bb Open Education #GCUGamesOn | howsheilaseesIT GCU Games On Gold Medal Our online event GCU Games On is now in it’s final week. Each week we have been giving participants the chance to win digital medals which are actually badges but as the event is about the Commonwealth Games it was too good an opportunity to use the term medals. Creating and issuing badges with Open Education is pretty straightforward using gradecentre. Firstly we developed this “event” pretty quickly and we wanted it to be as easy as possible to get the almost instant gratification of winning a badge – which seems to have worked. Now a silver medal! It’s really it’s that pesky email authentication thang in Backpack. Our “event” is not a course or one of those M things. However, overall issuing badges through the open platform does work and we have learned a lot about the practicalities of creating and issuing badges within Blackboard. If you have any experiences/thoughts/tips about badges then please let me know in the comments. Like this: Like Loading...

.........Experimental Blog: #Openbadges Simplest Possible Message about Open Badges I've been working with colleagues to try and refine a very simple message about #Openbadges . Here is work in progress - it is aimed at a Scottish schools audience but could be used in a range of contexts when introducing the concept of Open Badges - comments welcome ! Digital /Open Badges – What Exactly Are They? This is a guide prepared for an audience who may never have heard of Digital / Open badges. Badges are not a new phenomenon in learning. To earn a badge the recipient has to meet a certain level of competency or demonstrate a specific attribute. Digital Badges are really just a simple extension of this philosophy into the digital age. The advantage that a digital badge has over a cloth badge is that a digital badge can contain a lot of additional information (called meta data). So a digital badge becomes an on-line way for a learner to show evidence of their learning. The open in the heading comes from the technology that has been used to support the creation of digital badges.

5 Great Resources for Creating Digital Badges - LearningMesh | LearningMesh Recent attention within the scope of digital learning has focused on the use of digital badges to recognize a learner’s achievement and proficiency through course objectives. For those with boy scout or girl scout experience, you may recall receiving multiple badges after demonstrating knowledge and application on various skills. Or, if you’re a regular Foursquare user that likes to check-in at various locations, perhaps you’ve received badges for your journeys and usage. (Too see a list of Foursquare badges, check out this link on all the potential Foursquare badges you can earn.) Similarly, online learners can earn various digital badges for their progress through digital coursework on certain learning management systems. Digital badges have the capacity to become great motivators for online learners. If you are looking for resources to help you create your own digital badges to incorporate into your online course or learning management system, here are five great resources:

Fonts & graphics A number of picture fonts are loaded automatically into the badge designer to help you create exciting new badge designs. These fonts allow you to type using your keyboard but instead of showing letter shapes they show icons and images. You can select any of the picture fonts provided for either your badge text (use this if you want a large icon displayed on your badge) or your banner text. The Entypo picture font This table provides the key strokes for most of the commonly used images within the Entypo font. 11 22 33 44 55 66 77 88 99 00 !! The Modern Pictograms picture font This table provides the key strokes for most of the commonly used images within the Modern Pictograms font. 11 22 33 44 55 66 77 88 99 00 !! The EFON picture font This table provides the key strokes for most of the commonly used images within the EFON font. !! The Heydings1 picture font This table provides the key strokes for most of the commonly used images within the Heydings1 font. The Heydings2 picture font

15/10/2014 - Badges numériques ouverts en éducation - En ligne Les laboratoires de la Vitrine technologie-éducation (VTÉ) sont des espaces de découverte et d'exploration des technologies émergentes et des nouvelles façons d'enseigner où se cotoient chercheurs, praticiens et fournisseurs de solutions tant du domaine public que privé afin de porter un regard nouveau sur la valeur pédagogique de l'intégration des badges numériques ouverts dans le milieu de l'éducation. Public visé Les professeurs, les enseignants, les chargés de cours, les conseillers pédagogiques, les formateurs et les gestionnaires qui souhaitent entamer une réflexion afin de positionner les badges dans leur établissement sont invités à s'inscrire afin de participer, sans frais, à cette série d'activités en ligne. Si besoin était, nous nous réservons le droit de donner la priorité aux membres du réseau de l'éducation du Québec. Invités Agenda Étape 1 - Introduction : mercredi 15 octobre, 9 h à 10 h 30 (Québec, heure avancée de l’Est, HAE/GMT-4). Inscription

All About That Badge I often hear people say, “It’s not about the badge. It’s about the learning.” Well, yes. In 2013, each of the 30 Badges for Lifelong Learning projects responded to a series of questions about their first year of badge system design. I’m going to argue that this is the most important question we can ask about badges, and it has nothing to do with learning, or assessment, or motivation for that matter. “We have already seen...that such things as certificates, degrees, transcripts, and the like serve an essential role in establishing the ‘medium of exchange’ that permits activities performed in one institution of the system to be substituted for the same activities as if they had been performed in another. We would take a different design approach to badges for learning if we treated this work as a social invention instead of a technological innovation. Without prioritizing this need, we risk overcomplicating the learning with a lot of complex technology that is not easy to build.

OLDS-MOOC badging strategy OLDS-MOOC Badging strategy Overview The OLDS-MOOC project team anticipates that the introduction of badging into the OLDS-MOOC will have a three-fold impact. o Firstly, that participants will feel more motivated to complete the MOOC, and that the approach will to some extent manage the high drop-out rates commonly experienced in open online courses. o Secondly, that participants will be encouraged to push their practice beyond the central learning design journey ‘story-arc’ that the MOOC presents, and engage in the more challenging aspects of learning design practice. o Finally, it is hoped that badging will encourage participants to add links to their activity outputs in Cloudworks. Functionality Basic Mozilla badging functionality has been written into Cloudworks which will allow anyone to create and award a Mozilla badge. It is anticipated that the first option will be used where the criteria are identified as ‘product’ outputs (e.g. Figure 1: Screen shot of the create a badge page

MOOC Badging and the Learning Arc By Simon Cross and Rebecca Galley In a recent blog post Rebecca Galley introduced the OLDS-MOOC Badging Strategy and the nine badges that will be associated with the MOOC. The first part of the post expands on some of our thinking behind the strategy by using a pictorial representation to explain the place of the badges in the course. The first type of badge we considered was of it as a reward for achieving something on the main learning arc - for example, reaching a particular point or level or doing a particular activity. We thought the second type of badge could be to reward sustained, cumulative effort or, as Rebecca says in her post, to reward endeavour. A third purpose for a badge may be to encourage deviation from the main learning arc - to help the learner explore the academic and social space around the course itself and even to make their own paths. Comments and discussion