Open Badges

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Inspired assessment learning technology
Portability of Achievement –
Open Badges in Assessment
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Steve Sidaway and Tom Holland
MyKnowledgeMap

What are Open Badges?
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In this session, we will design an open
badge, create the badge, and award an
open badge. You will all earn a badge
for attendance!

What are Open Badges?
Earn Issue Display
Earn badges for skills you Give recognition for things Show your badges in the
learn on and offline you teach places that matter
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Slides adapted from Doug Bellshaw, Licensed by CC Sharealike 2.0
Open badges in professional healthcare education

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Full version released!
• OpenBadges 1.0 launched at the
#DML2013 conference
• Final standard and reference toolset,
and a new look backpack
• Developed by Mozilla in partnership
with the MacArthur Foundation
• A lively and active international
developer community

Who’s currently using Open Badges?
Over 600 organisations. Mozilla Webmaker. Corporation for Public Broadcasting. NOAA Planet Stewards. 4-
H/USDA. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies. MOUSE. Peer to
Peer University. Open University / Cloudworks. EDUCAUSE. Codery. Gogo Lab. OpenBadgesUA. UniMOOC aemprende.
Cybersociety Observatory. Youtopia. Seton Hall University. Makewaves. YMCA of Greater New York. NYC Department of
Education. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dallas Museum of Art. HIVE NYC. Providence After School
Alliance. workforce.io. DigitalMe. Sweet Water Foundation. David Wiley Introduction to Open Education course. IPT
EdTec – Using Technology In Teaching. Coderbits. Open University Cloudworks. Museum Computer Network. Museums &
Mobile. MyKnowledgeMap. Illinois Online Network. NASA. Microsoft. Disney-Pixar. Badges Work for Vets. Intel and
Society for Science and the Public. Cybersociety Observatory. OpenBadgesUA. UniMOOC aemprende. workforce.io.
OhioCreditFlexibility.org. Sweet Water Foundation. Tamritz. SUNY Empire State College. IPT EdTec. Coderbits. Center
for Educational Technologies at Wheeling Jesuit University. Codery. Providence After School Alliance. Girl Scouts of
Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana. Carnegie Mellon Robotics Academy. Smithsonian Institution National Museum
of Natural History. Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt. Design for America. EarthWorks. DigitalMe. Makewaves. GoGo Labs.
BuzzMath. Leverage for Digital On-Ramps. YALSA. UC Davis Agricultural Sustainability Institute. Sweet Water AQUAPONS.
Totara Learning Solutions Ltd. Manufacturing Institute
This is only a partial list… …and it’s growing all the time!
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Brainstorm: what would you badge?
• Choose an area that’s relevant to you
and your group that lends itself to
awarding open badges
• How could badges motivate your
students?
• How would badges be useful for
verification?
• Describe the workflow
• What rules might people have to meet
to earn a badge?
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A major project implementation
• UpBete – A partnership with Leeds Teaching
Hospitals NHS Trust and Yorkshire and Humber
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• Online patient education platform to help
patients manage their condition
• Children with diabetes and their families design
badges and award criteria themselves
• Open Badges will motivate and reward
engagement through rules based engine

http://dev.upbete.co.uk/admin/b
adges.aspx
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Art Supplies 2 by Andrew Forgrave
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aforgrave/6108281552/in/photostream/
Open Badge Designer
www.openbadges.me
• No Photoshop? No Worries!
• Combine a library of graphical
elements to create a unique badge
design. Add text and change colours
for anyone to design badges and
award criteria
• Publish a custom Open Badge
graphic in PNG format

http://openbadges.me/
If you don’t want to provide an email address, use
tom.holland@myknowledgemap.com - don’t select “have a play”
because you won’t be able to publish your badges!
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Issuing badges
• Automatic issue when criteria and
rules are met
• Visual, Xbox-style alerts
• Dynamic build of assertions
• Quick links to personal Backpacks
• Badges automatically stored in
the RMA online system
Open Badges in ReallyManaging
Assessment (planned)

http://badg.us/
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Summary
• Supporting Open Badges may be a game changer
• We are investigating use of Open Badges across a variety of projects and
products
• First key deliverable is Open Badge Designer
• Second key deliverable will be Open Badges in UpBete site
• Third deliverable will be a Badge Issuing Component
• Fourth deliverable… Open Badges in ReallyManaging Assessment?
Photo by Matt Hobbs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ultrahi/2209625078/

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Have a badge!
• You’ve earned your MyKnowledgeMap Open Badge Awareness badge!
• Go to http://ob-awareness.myknowledgemap.com/
• Enter your claim code
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• You’ll need somewhere to store your badge:
• http://beta.openbadges.org
Photo by Matt Hobbs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ultrahi/2209625078/

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Ideas?
http://www.openbadges.me
http://ob-awareness.myknowledgemap.com
http://www.myknowledgemap.com/openbadges
@myknowledgemap
http://www.openbadges.org

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