Doug Belshaw's presentation from the Computing At School Scotland conference 2012
Doug Belshaw is Badges and Skills Lead for the non-profit Mozilla Foundation. In this role he evangelises Open Badges, a new way to recognise skills and achievements, as well as heading-up work around Web Literacies. Prior to Mozilla Doug worked at JISC infoNet and is a former teacher and Senior Leader in UK schools. Doug also recently completed his doctoral studies on the subject of digital literacies through Durham University.
1. Open Badges
and Learning
Doug Belshaw
CAS conference, 27 October 2012 / @dajbelshaw / doug@mozillafoundation.org
2. Today’s webinar
Learning today happens everywhere. But it's often
difficult to get recognition for skills and
achievements that happen online or out of school.
Mozilla Open Badges helps solve that problem,
making it easy for any organization to issue, manage
and display digital badges across the web. Doug
Belshaw, Badges and Skills Lead at the Mozilla
Foundation, talks about Open Badges and their
potential in education.
3. Today’s webinar
Learning today happens everywhere. But it's often
difficult to get recognition for skills and
achievements that happen online or out of school.
Mozilla Open Badges helps solve that problem,
making it easy for any organization to issue, manage
and display digital badges across the web. Doug
Belshaw, Badges and Skills Lead at the Mozilla
Foundation, talks about Open Badges and their
potential in education.
4. Today’s webinar
Learning today happens everywhere. But it's often
difficult to get recognition for skills and
achievements that happen online or out of school.
Mozilla Open Badges helps solve that problem,
making it easy for any organization to issue, manage
and display digital badges across the web. Doug
Belshaw, Badges and Skills Lead at the Mozilla
Foundation, talks about Open Badges and their
potential in education.
5. Today’s webinar
Learning today happens everywhere. But it's often
difficult to get recognition for skills and
achievements that happen online or out of school.
Mozilla Open Badges helps solve that problem,
making it easy for any organization to issue, manage
and display digital badges across the web. Doug
Belshaw, Badges and Skills Lead at the Mozilla
Foundation, talks about Open Badges and their
potential in education.
6. Who are you?
Dr. Doug Belshaw
Badges & Skills Lead
Mozilla Foundation
@dajbelshaw
doug@mozillafoundation.org
10. Letter of
recommendation
Silo 2
Silo 1 PhD
Professional
qualification
Silo 3
11. Letter of
recommendation
Silo 2
Silo 1 PhD
Professional
What skills/ qualification
attributes are
Silo 3
missing here?
(and can we present
them in a holistic way?)
57. Ask me hard questions!
Now!
On Twitter: @dajbelshaw
Via email: doug@mozillafoundation.org
Useful links:
http://openbadges.org
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges
https://groups.google.com/d/forum/openbadges