10. People live their lives and learn across multiple
settings, and this holds true not only across the
span of our lives but also across and within the
institutions and communities they inhabit – even
classrooms, for example. I take an approach that
urges me to consider the significant overlap
across these boundaries as people, tools, and
practices travel through different and even
contradictory contexts and activities.
KRIS GUTIERREZ
11. JOI ITO
“I don’t think education is about
centralized instruction anymore; rather, it
is the process [of] establishing oneself as
a node in a broad network of distributed
creativity.”
@joi
18. cc licensed flickr photo by courosa: http://flickr.com/photos/courosa/2922421696/
INSERT ANY PROFESSIONAL
19. Everyone has the same building blocks…
…but how do you put them together?
20. • Which platform do you
use for your
information streams?
• What are advantages/
disadvantages?
• Where do you
keep your work?
• Is it digital or
analog?
• Private or public?
• Where do you keep
track of your digital
files and resources?
• What are
restrictions/
benefits?
• How safe are your
collections?
• Do you share
collections with
others? Why or why
not?
• Who are you
connected to?
• Which tools do
you use to
communicate with
other students?
• Are the tools
public or private?
• What are
advantages or
not?
• How much do you
share about you?
Conversation Curation
Information
Streams
Portfolio
You
21.
22.
23.
24. Many students already have confident social
identities online, but developing identities
as learners, writers, scholars, citizens —
these are important tasks as part of higher
education.
- Catherine Cronin
http://catherinecronin.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/openeducation-and-
identities/
ROLE OF INSTITUTION IN DIGITAL IDENTITY
25. If institutions of learning are going to help
learners with the real challenges they face…
[they] will have to shift their focus from
imparting curriculum to supporting the
negotiation of productive identities through
landscapes of practice.”
- Etienne Wenger (Digital Habitats, 2010)
ROLE OF INSTITUTION IN DIGITAL IDENTITY
26. • Which platform do you
use for your
information streams?
• What are advantages/
disadvantages?
• Where do you
keep your work?
• Is it digital or
analog?
• Private or public?
• Where do you keep
track of your digital
files and resources?
• What are
restrictions/
benefits?
• How safe are your
collections?
• Do you share
collections with
others? Why or why
not?
• Who are you
connected to?
• Which tools do
you use to
communicate with
other students?
• Are the tools
public or private?
• What are
advantages or
not?
• How much do you
share about you?
Conversation Curation
Information
Streams
Portfolio
You
27. cc licensed flickr photo by Will Lion: http://flickr.com/photos/will-lion/
28. Artefacts Discovery Selection Collection Sharing
The social curation process
Social curation is: “the discovery, selection, collection
and sharing of digital artefacts by an individual for a
social purpose such as learning, collaboration, identity
expression or community participation.”
Seitzinger, 2014, Networked Learning Conference
Proceedings
30. • Which platform do you
use for your
information streams?
• What are advantages/
disadvantages?
• Where do you
keep your work?
• Is it digital or
analog?
• Private or public?
• Where do you keep
track of your digital
files and resources?
• What are
restrictions/
benefits?
• How safe are your
collections?
• Do you share
collections with
others? Why or why
not?
• Who are you
connected to?
• Which tools do
you use to
communicate with
other students?
• Are the tools
public or private?
• What are
advantages or
not?
• How much do you
share about you?
Conversation Curation
Information
Streams
Portfolio
You
32. SO IF THAT IS WHERE PEOPLE LEARN,
HOW WILL THEY GET RECOGNIZED FOR
THEIR LEARNING?
33.
34.
35. BADGE DEFINITION
• “Digital credential that represents
skills, interests and achievements
earned by an individual through
specific projects, programmes, courses
or other activities.” (Mozilla, 2013)
36. WHO IS USING DIGITAL BADGES?
• Khan Academy
• LinkedIn
• Deloitte
• Gamification
• Do not talk to each other.
• Not transferable
39. MOZILLA’S OPEN BADGES
“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 organisation to issue,
manage and display digital badges
across the web.”
43. IF WE USE OPEN BADGES
• Can facilitate informal and formal
learning
• Can represent hard or soft skills
• Can be issued by an institution, after-
school club, maker society, employer, a
peer,….
• Can be built on for lifelong learning
• Can transfer between contexts and life
stages
46. DR SIMON CROSS @OU:
THE POTENTIAL OF BADGES
• Accredit and evidence learning
• Strengthening student motivation
• Promoting deeper learning experiences
• Reaching informal/non-traditional learners
• Helping student better value achievements
• Recognising competency-based learning
47. DR SIMON CROSS @OU:
FUNCTION OF BADGES
• Recognise learning
• Assessment of learning
• Motivating learning
• Evaluation & tracking of progress
• Goal setting
• Status
• Instruction to norms
• Reputation
• Group identity
• Tool of resistance or domination
• Symbols of exclusivity
• Souvenirs
48. DR SIMON CROSS @OU:
ROLE OF BADGES
Role of the
Issuer
Role of the
Earner
• Solution to motivation issue
• Evidence generator
• Constructive alignment process
• Low cost / low effort option
• Saves time assessing prior learning
• Booster issuer image or profile
• Ties issuer to earner
• Retain authority and status
66. UNIVERSITIES & OPEN BADGES EG PHD
• Eg Peer review by publication, maybe no post-peer review
• Having a backpack that displays your progress
• Accept external badges – trust networks – PhD mobility
• Accredit learning done elsewhere with institutional badge
(RPL)
Redefinition
• Modify current tracking system of PhD students
• Make it easier for a supervisor to take over, or for
supervisor or administrator to spot gaps
Modifica-
tion
• Recognise visibly existing milestones eg award badge on
acceptance of research proposal
• Recognise digital and research literacies
Augmenta-
tion
• No current practice
Substitution
68. IF BADGES WERE A KEYSTONE HABIT…
• Learning experience driven by learning design &
assessment
• Step away from content-based courses in the LMS, and
go to activity & evidence based learning
• Make graduate learning outcomes visible
• Less linear, more exploratory learning
• Ability to unbundle assessment activities from learning
activities
• Flexible enrolment & assessment opportunities
• Appropriate staff involved at right time
• Improve feedback loop on progress but also ability to
display progress. Support from peers.
• Sharing of successful pathways
• ….
69. 2nd community call Thur 27 March, 7PM AEST/9PM NZ
Google+: OBANZ
Twitter: @ob_anz Facebook.com/openbadgesanz
MORE ABOUT OPEN BADGES?
70. FROM GUTENBERG TO ZUCKERBERG
John Naughton:
“One thing we’ve learned from the history
of communications technology is that
people tend to over-estimate the short
term impact of new technologies – and to
underestimate their long term
implications”
