Mozilla Open Badges 101: Jan. 29 webinar
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Open Badges Webinar Series Mozilla Open Badges 101: Digging Into Badges Click to watch on YouTube: http://youtu.be/Zdv6R2BiYq4 Mozilla's Open Badges is a new system for credentialing and accreditation that makes it possible for learners everywhere to get recognition for lifelong learning of all kinds through digital badges, and then collect and share those badges across the Web for real results like jobs. But what does this mean for your organization? And how do you get started? Join Mozilla's Marketing + Community Strategy Lead, Megan Cole, for this one-hour webinar, in which she will walk you through the foundation of Open Badges. If you're new to Open Badges, or have a basic understanding but want to go deeper, this webinar is for you! Check out Open Badges 201: Badge System Design & Technical Overview, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQIgrUtLOv4&feature=youtu.be @OpenBadges #OpenBadges
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Mozilla Open Badges 101: Jan. 29 webinar
- 2. Open Badges 101 Digging into Badges Presented by: Jade Forester @OpenBadges
- 3. Today’s Webinar What is a Badge Why Open Badges Details on the OBI Current Status of Ecosystem Badgekit Launch And more...
- 6. What are the problems we need to solve?
- 7. Education and workforce are changing.
- 8. “GPAs are worthless as a criteria for hiring and test scores are worthless...Your ability to perform at Google is completely unrelated to how you performed when you were in school, because the skills you acquired in college are very different... http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/22/the-technical-interview-is-
- 9. Tension between economic mobility, innovation and access.
- 11. • Current system is broken: drop outs, not ready for college/careers • Exploring new approaches: personalized learning, competency- based • Wrong accountability measures, wrong credentials K-12
- 12. • Isabel, 10th grader • Struggles with some subjects in school • Nets out to ‘average’, despite doing many things well • Involved in many activities • No way to keep her from falling behind K-12 Education: Story
- 13. • Tawa, 7th grade teacher • Must ‘teach to the test’ • No room to innovate or attend to individual needs • No insight into student interests K-12 Education: Story
- 14. • Strong networks, compelling learning • Not connected to schools • Does not ‘count’ for learners Afterschool
- 15. • Eduardo, 7th grader • Below average student in school • Emerging technologist and mentor in afterschool program • Does not realize this is legitimate learning Afterschool: Story
- 16. • Expensive, inconsistent quality • Growing gap between university and careers • Monopoly on credentials Higher Education / University
- 17. • Ahmed, recent grad • Brings transcript to a job interview • Surprised that this means little to employer • No way to demonstrate skills and granular learning University: Story
- 18. • Workforce changing, its not always enough to have a degree • New skills are important, new economies have emerged • Employers can't find right matches Workforce
- 19. • Sal, displaced worker • Does not know what skills he needs for a new job • University is not an option • Has no way to demonstrate skills he has learned on the job Workforce: Story
- 20. • Joelle, hiring manager • Can’t find the right people for the job • Has hired the wrong person several times, at great cost • Wants better tools for assessing what candidates can do Workforce: Story
- 21. Education and workforce are changing.
- 22. No single institution can prepare someone.
- 23. Need a connected ecosystem of learning.
- 24. Need credentials that capture and communicate learning and skills.
- 27. What are badges?
- 28. badges = digital representations of a skill or achievement
- 29. scouting may be the first example that comes to mind, but...
- 30. more and more, badges represent achievements on the web
- 31. some are just for fun or social status
- 32. but increasingly the skills are real, based on real tasks and work
- 33. reflecting real skills - which employers and schools are looking for
- 34. and willing to pay for, hire for, give credit for ➔ real results
- 35. Why badges?
- 37. Build and communicate reputation and identity.
- 38. Reinvent or augment existing credentials: granular, evidenced-based and transferable.
- 39. Surface skills and competencies that are important and give people a way to plug in.
- 40. Even better: shared badge ecosystem
- 41. Not just digital badges, but open badges.
- 47. Mozilla’s Open Badge Infrastructure
- 48. Free and open source software - Backpacks and APIs
- 49. In this badge ecosystem a badge is more than just a badge
- 51. • Issuer information • Earner information • Criteria URL • Evidence URL • Standards Alignment • Taxonomy / Tags Open Badge Standard
- 52. 1 year ago: 98 issuers; 1K badges Today: 1900 issuers; 210K badges
- 54. Who is using badges? (and how are they using them?)
- 56. • Isabel, 10th grader • Struggles with some subjects in school • Nets out to ‘average’, despite doing many things well • Involved in many activities • No way to keep her from falling behind K-12 Education: Story
- 57. • Get badges for all activities • Reward granular accomplishments and strengths in school • Use combination of badges to better understand and guide her • Includes badges on college applications K-12 Education: Story
- 58. • Tawa, 7th grade teacher • Must ‘teach to the test’ • No room to innovate or attend to individual needs • No insight into student interests K-12 Education: Story
- 59. • Issue badges for skills and ‘extra’ learning in the classroom • Use badges from out of school to better understand and guide students • Even earn badges herself for innovative practices K-12 Education: Story
- 60. • Recognized students not motivated by A’s • Badging coursework, skills, attendance • Students have a ‘passport’ • Goal is that a completed passport leads to local college acceptance K-12: Corona-Norco School District
- 61. Corona Norco School District in California
- 62. Corona Norco School District in California
- 63. • Eduardo, 7th grader • Below average student in school • Emerging technologist and mentor in afterschool program • Does not realize this is legitimate learning Afterschool: Story
- 64. • Badges for his learning outside of school • Badges can ‘unlock’ access to more learning or mentors • Carries with him back into school • Shares with interest groups and builds reputation Afterschool: Story
- 65. • Badges for expanded learning opportunities • Connects afterschool, schools, local business • Programs on environmental science, sports, video game design, etc. • Local high school and community college accept for credit After-School: PASA
- 67. • Ahmed, recent grad • Brings transcript to a job interview • Surprised that this means little to employer • No way to demonstrate skills and granular learning University: Story
- 68. • Badges for skills developed in courses at university • Shares his digital resume + badges with prospective employer • Tells a more complete story about what he knows and can do • His work in university ‘counts’ University: Story
- 69. Higher Ed: Purdue University
- 71. Gerry McCartney, Purdue's vice president for information technology, CIO and Oesterle Professor of Information Technology "Students learn in many ways and in a variety of settings while attending a university such as Purdue. In addition to formal lectures and homework, there is also time spent in labs and doing field work; time spent in service projects or internships; and experiences they glean from student organizations. The Passport app will give interested faculty and advisers another way to recognize and validate those skills for students."
- 72. Open Education: Code School
- 73. • Sal, displaced worker • Does not know what skills he needs for a new job • University is not an option • Has no way to demonstrate skills he has learned on the job Workforce: Story
- 74. • Earn badges for skills he already has • View badges recommended for particular industry • Find open education courses to develop those skills • Share badges with potential employers Workforce: Story
- 75. Workforce: Manufacturing Institute • Use badges to define skills important to the industry • Badges recognize prior learning and on-the-job training • Ties directly into jobs and advancement
- 78. • Joelle, hiring manager • Can’t find the right people for the job • Has hired the wrong person several times, at great cost • Wants better tools for assessing what candidates can do Workforce: Story
- 79. • Search for candidates through badges • Use information ‘behind’ the badge to easily vet candidate’s skills • Find better matches, have more confidence in hiring Workforce: Story
- 90. Total Learners
- 91. Total Badges
- 93. What is BadgeKit? A set of open, foundational tools to make the badging process easy and simple.
- 94. Our Goal with BadgeKit To improve the badging experience for issuers, learners and consumers, making open badging simple and easy to do. Close the gap with lightweight, free open badging tools.
- 95. Our Goal with BadgeKit Provide the foundational tools to stoke the growth and development of the Open Badges ecosystem. Given the open source model of BadgeKit, improvements made by anyone can benefit everyone, from bug fixes to new features and more.
- 96. Our Goal with BadgeKit Build our values of openness, interoperability, agency, choice, and connectedness into the core and help shape emerging badge systems. Let’s make it easier to build and issue an open badge.
- 97. BadgeKit will: Support each key point in the badging experience including discovering, building, assessing, issuing, collecting and sharing.
- 98. D B A I C iscover uild ssess ssue ollect Share
- 99. Summary.
- 100. Open Badges are digital credentials for the modern age.
- 102. Recognition of skills and achievements.
- 103. Collected across lifetimes as portfolio of what you know and can do.
- 104. Digital ‘currency’ to carry with you and share across the Web.
- 105. Get Connected Join our weekly Community call Wednesdays at 9am PDT / 12pm EDT http://bit.ly/OBCommCalls Post questions to our Google Group https://groups.google.com/d/forum/openbadges Reach out to us for information badges@mozillafoundation.org Stay up-to-date with our Blog http://openbadges.tumblr.com/
Editor's Notes
- - What is a badge - Why digital badges - Details on the Open Badges Infrastructure - Current status of the ecosystem - Details on the Clinton Global Initiative commitment - And more
- This is a complicated world with a lot of complicated challenges. Learning is not just seat time. Learning is happening in more ways, across lifetimes. Career changes are more frequent and commonplace. Not to mention how do we prepare the workforce for jobs that have not yet come into existence? New technologies and advancement dictate new skills. Expectation that workers must continue to uplevel their skills to compete.
- Google’s head of HR admits that “Brainteasers are a complete waste of time.” He goes on to say, “Academic environments are artificial environments. People who succeed there are sort of finely trained, they’re conditioned to succeed in that environment.” http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/22/the-technical-interview-is-dead/
- Education has always been seen as the ticket out of poverty or towards success. But in many cases, that’s not enough or its not meeting the needs. How do we better connect people with opportunities to succeed?
- We’ll quickly visit challenges by sector starting with K12
- We’ve heard time and time again that the current system is broken with high drop out rates, and low student college and career readiness. We’re hearing a lot about creating curriculum for personalized learning; the importance of supporting different paces and abilities and also an increasing emphasis on competency based learning over seat time
- All the while we have a ton of wonderful afterschool programs. By “not connected to schools” we mean, the learning that took place don’t count and is not recognized.
- Google exec: Your ability to perform well at Google is unrelated to how you did in school.
- Learning is not just seat time. Learning is happening in more ways, across lifetimes. New technologies and advancement dictate new skills. Expectation that workers are continuing to up their skills to compete.
- No single institution can solve this or prepare someone alone.
- We need to find a way to connect learning for people across their lifetimes. Connect them to more learning. Connect that learning to real results like jobs.
- That connection boils down to the record of that learning. We need new credentials that can communicate skills across contexts.
- Scout badges were tied to achievement, skills, leveling up and reputation but they are one time, flat badges that don’t carry evidence or sharing capacity.
- Digital!
- Stackoverflow: badges issued for participation in a question and answer forum - social skills and hard skills like programming proficiency
- The combination = more complete story about these individuals
- So much so that employers are willing to pay for it!!
- Recognize more granular skills. Recognize more skills in general, like social skills. Build a collection that tells a more complete story about what you know and can do.
- Credentials that fit our world today.
- Explicitly define the skills that an org or industry cares about. Create a learning map of what someone needs to know and help them find ways to get those skills.
- Not just more silo’d systems, let’s do this at the connected ecosystem level.
- Learners earn badges across various issuers and learning experiences over their lifetime. We want to help learners better capture that learning in the form of badges.
- Store them in one collection that they manage and control
- Share them out...
- ...for real results like jobs and advancement
- Mozilla has built the ‘plumbing’ to allow badges to work at the ecosystem level
- Includes Backpacks, where learners collect and manage their badges
- Most importantly, includes the standard for badges - definition of what information must be included in each badge (Badges are evidence based!)
- It its the “bones” or “insides” of a badge.
- Standard is the minimum info needed to understand that badge. Ensures that all badges in the ecosystem are interoperable.
- Ecosystem with Mozilla infrastructure in the middle, or underneath. Educators / issuers, as well as Employers / badge ‘users’ are critical pieces to making this real and beneficial for learners.
- Let’s go back to the user stories and see how badges could help.
- When student completes passport, they get university acceptance. Great! In conversation with local universities.
- Bill Watson, an assistant professor in Purdue's Department of Curriculum and Instruction, wasinstrumental in creating the Passport platform and will be using Passport in a graduate-level course this semester. He says the advantage of badges is that they allow faculty to focus on competencies, skills and learner performance.
- http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2012/Q3/digital-badges-show-students-skills-along-with-degree.html Bill Watson, an assistant professor in Purdue's Department of Curriculum and Instruction, wasinstrumental in creating the Passport platform and will be using Passport in a graduate-level course this semester. He says the advantage of badges is that they allow faculty to focus on competencies, skills and learner performance.