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- 1. 1. What are open badges? Open Badge Design Day – NHS England Sharon Middleton, Makewaves Lucy Neale, DigitalMe
- 2. “Over 70% of employers want employability skills to become a top education priority” The CBI
- 3. “…qualifications are worthless as a criteria for hiring” Google 2013
- 5. Aims for the Session: 1. Understand what Open Badges are and how they can promote wellbeing & signpost to services 2. Have a go at designing your own badge! 3. See how the badges will launch as part of the Department of Health project on Makewaves
- 6. NHS England & Badges – Why? • Use digital tools to increase engagement with young people • Better support schools to promote wellbeing and signpost to services • Measure impact and track progression through services / into careers
- 7. 1. What are open badges?
- 10. Mozilla Open Badges: a web standard which captures & communicates skills
- 12. Silo 1 Silo 2 Silo 4 Formal qualifications After school club certificates Online learning Silo 3 Professional development
- 13. CC BY-SA Kyle Bowen
- 19. What makes Open Badges different? 1. Open &free skills communication standard 2. Anyone can create open badges 3. Data is owned byusers
- 20. Who is using Open Badges?
- 21. Some of the organisations involved in the ecosystem
- 23. 2000 issuers
- 24. 1400% Growth since Nov 2012
- 25. 120 partners
- 26. About Open Badges - Employer & teacher perspective
- 27. Questions?
- 28. Badges in Action
- 29. A community of schools sharing their learning and creativity with Open Badges
- 30. safe social learning An international platform for young people to find exciting challenges, connect with others and build a digital record of their achievements through badges.
- 34. 53,000 badges awarded to 26,000 students from 1,400 schools
- 35. Badge Library
- 46. Badge Club Students love to discover and earn badges and help each other ‘One of the biggest impacts we have seen is the eagerness of children to get involved and try something new.’ Matt Rogers, Teacher
- 62. Badge design process Download canvases at www.digitalme.co.uk/badgetheuk
- 63. Lunch!
- 64. Pitch!
- 65. Next Steps
- 66. What are you… • Excited about? • Concerned about? • Explore Further?
- 67. Yay! You’ve earned a badge!
- 68. Thanks!
Editor's Notes
- Who I am – DigitalMe Fun/practical day learning about Digial badges. 1. At digitalme we help schools, charities & employers use a new digital credentialing tech to help young people show off their skills and achievements to create new pathways into further learning, work, or training. This technology is called open badges 2. The reason we do this is because believe the education system isn’t developing all of the skills young people need to succeed in current jobs economy – focus on passing exams rather than developing the competencies needed to thrive in work, like problem solving, resilience, leadership. But also things like wellbeing – being a healthy and confident young person who can cope and thrive in life. Which is why were are so pleased to be working with you today.
- Just to set the scene – wanted to share a couple of quotes. CBI, FSB, E-skills – all asking for better ways to credential learning. Real tension between what’s been taught in school / colleges / universities and the skills needed for success in life and work – schools we talk to are aware of this – difficult to understanding what employers mean by employability skills- problem solving/problem finding & how these can be taught within the already packed curriculum.
- V. Controversial statement – not sure I completely agree but it does suggest is that what some employers value has changed and qualifications are failing to communicte the real skills needed, especially within digital industries
- We feel that part of the answer could be something called Mozilla Open Badges – they potentially provide a way to bridge this gap by creating a new skills currency that can capture all of the skills a learner has and enable them to be used more effectively to unlock opportunities for work or training At Digitalme we are leading on this BTUK programme funded by nomiinet because we have first hand experience of delivering learning programmes which develop real employability skills such as resilience, problem solving and communication skills but we have struggled in the past to map them to formal qualification frameworks – either lost the essence of the programme or agendas changed as govts changed which was counter productive. We werent able to provide yp with anything to evidence their wide range of skills and achievements and commitment to learning or enable them to articulate the skills they had to colleges and universities. Open bagdes came along and changed that. Over the past 18 months we have been running BTUK initiative funded by Nominet Trust, to work with schools, charities and employers to use badges to create a new skills currency.
- Aims for the session – main aim is that you all leave feeling confident about what open badges are and how they could apply to think big. Want you to have the chance to ask lots of questions, get hands on designing badges and begin to feed into the plans for the programme as it moves forwards. Want it to be fun! Quickly go round – who is in room? What badge have you earned or would like to earn and why?
- Aims for the session – main aim is that you all leave feeling confident about what open badges are and how they could apply to think big. Want you to have the chance to ask lots of questions, get hands on designing badges and begin to feed into the plans for the programme as it moves forwards. Want it to be fun! Quickly go round – who is in room? What badge have you earned or would like to earn and why?
- Has anyone heard of open badges?
- All familiar with offline badges not a new idea – universal symbol of recognition and everyone has a memory of a badge they have earned they are proud of. 21st Century Scouts is a Useful Analogy but can also be limiting
- Often a better example of a digital badge – ebay badge represents behaviour as well as skills - its trusted and is built up over time, micro transactions, awarded by a community therefore more valuable representation of an individual. Evidence of their badge can be viewed online as feedback - transparent
- Some familiar names here – driven from the states but a growing number of people using OB here in the UK Nasa / disney Awarding bodies SQA announcement / City & guilds / others coming… OBSEG
- Currently 120 partners across the UK – employers, charities, networks of schools across the UK These are all people who have fantastic endorsed learning programmes – teach computing skills like code club, encourage voting like bite the ballot, Volunteer programmes V inspired. Real disconnect between these programmes and schools – they find it hard to get their programmes into schools. What we hope with BTUK is make it easier for YP to access these programmes using open badges
- Aims for the session
- Show O2 Video
- This shows the Makewaves homepage, some of the national badge missions that young people can take. Young people can also interact via mobiles and the Makewaves app.
- Parliament Education Service have a hub on Makewaves which we manage, engage young people in two way dialogue around issues such as education, political literacy, the media, health and wellbeing.
- This is an example of two brothers deciding to help their school spread the word about protecting from headlice.
- Badges created by partners and by other schools can be found in the public badge library on Makewaves. This is just a snapshot of that. Learner-led. Schools – track achievement and all types of learning & engagement.
- Evidence can be rich media – social media tools of Makewaves,
- Young oeople can se which members have chosen to take a badge. Mexican wave effect. Young people are notified when a friend / clasmate earns a badge. Quality not quantity.
- What a badge ecosystem can look like – city wide project connecting over 100 organisations and 30,000 young people across a city. Endorsed by Mayor of Chicago – Bdages were created by the organisations and all looked different – but badges were mapped to a STEAM curriculum and enabled them to level up to unlock opportunities in the city Similarities to think big – connecting different programmes using a central curriculum to underpin lots of different activities. Young people could access the programme via their interests but also enabled progression and impact to be measured. Watch Video
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- Schools = very organic and localised What happens when badges are linked to national or even international programmes? Raises the stakes – allows young people to level up. Trusted brands endorse and add credential to the badge and start to build the currency
- Schools = very organic and localised What happens when badges are linked to national or even international programmes? Raises the stakes – allows young people to level up. Trusted brands endorse and add credential to the badge and start to build the currency
- Aims for the session