Short overview of Open Badges for a 15 minute workshop. Part of the Contemporary Approaches to Teaching event at Sheffield Hallam University on 10th December 2013

1. Open Badges
Dr. Ian Glover
Technology Enhanced Learning Team
i.glover@shu.ac.uk

2. What is a Badge?
Visual representation of
achievement, experience, affiliation and/or
interest - ideally distinctive and understood
within a community.
Some examples:

3. What are 'Open Badges'?
 Electronic (online) badges
 Link to criteria and evidence for award
 Have the credibility of the awarding body
 Share 'badge clusters' from multiple sources
with others on Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.
 Provide security and verification
 can check whether a person was actually awarded
a specific badge

4. What's the use in HE?
Surface the learning 'hidden' in a transcript
Encourage students to undertake co- and
extra-curricular activities
 Recognise informal learning
Motivate students to complete formative
work
Enables students to differentiate themselves
from classmates

5. How could YOU use them?

6. Think about Badges in your
context
Are there skills that students use and
develop?
Do you have extra-curricular activities to
encourage?
Do you want to draw links between learning
and skills demanded by
employers/professional bodies?
Are there formative activities that you want
students to complete?

7. Any ideas?

8. Places to earn/display Open
Badges
 'Educational' platforms introducing badges:
 Moodle
 Blackboard
 Mahara
 PebblePad
 Wordpress
 Drupal
 Central, common 'backpack'
(https://backpack.openbadges.org)

9. Getting started
 Image creation
 OpenBadges.me (http://openbadges.me)
 Online Badge Maker
(http://www.onlinebadgemaker.com/)
 Badge creation and issuing
 badg.us (http://badg.us)
 All-in-one systems
 Credly (http://credly.com)
 Mozilla BadgeKit (http://badgekit.openbadges.org/) -
April 2014

10. Demonstration
Creating a badge with Credly
http://credly.com

11. Claim a Reward for Contributing
 Go to http://badg.us
and enter claim code
'7aunyp'
 or, Scan:
 (You'll need a Mozilla
Backpack, though)