A presentation that explores the affordances of using digital badges as a way to capture rich data about digital literacy skills.

1. Navigating the Digital Landscape : a digital passport
model
Presented by Leonie McIlvenny
June, 2015

3. Digital Literacies

6. ICT General Capabilities

8. Badges
What is a Badge?
• badge [baj]: a special or distinctive mark, token, or device
worn as a sign of allegiance, membership, authority,
achievement, etc. (Source: Dictionary.com)
• A badge is a symbol or indicator of an accomplishment, skill,
quality or interest. From the Boy and Girl Scouts, to PADI
diving instruction, to the more recently popular geo-­‐‑location
game, Foursquare, badges have been successfully used to set
goals, motivate behaviours, represent achievements and
communicate success in many contexts.

10. Badge your way to ICT
Competency

14. Gaming Badges

15. Digital Badges vs Open Badges
• A digital badge is an online representation of a skill you’ve earned. Open Badges
take that concept one step further, and allows you to verify your skills,
interests and achievements through credible organizations and aRaches that
information to the badge image file, hard-­‐‑coding the metadata for future
access and review.
• Because the system is based on an open standard, earners can combine multiple
badges from different issuers to tell the complete story of their achievements —
both online and off.
• Badges can be displayed wherever earners want them on the web, and share them
for employment, education or lifelong learning.

17. Open Badge Infrastructure
Mozilla
.
• Acknowledge lifelong learning
• Supports multiple badge issuers
• Interoperable
• Shareable across the web
• Open standard
• Portable badges
• Central repository

19. University
Job Training
Open Learning
Degree
Skill
DISPLAYER: Personal /
professional networks and
Social Media
VIEWER: University
Qualifications (Degree)
Lifelong Learning
VIEWER:
Employer
Resume / portfolio / certification
ISSUER: Any association
Organization or institution
wanting to award a badge
EARNER: Individuals who
earn the badges
BADGES: Earned for skills,
achievements from the
institution issuing the
badge
DISPLAYER: web platform where
badges are displayed – can be public
or private
Competency

26. Badge Providers

35. Examples
Three examples of how
digital badges can be used

40. ISSUER
ISSUE DATE
BADGE CRITERIA
EVIDENCE
BADGE ICON
BADGE DETAILS
EXAMPLE OF THE METADATA ATTACHED TO A DIGITAL BADGE

52. SCOOP.IT

53. Contact
leoniem@westnet.com.au
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mydigitalpassport.weebly.com