Understand digital badges conceptually, but are just learning how to implement a system? Using the Open SUNY COTE program as a case study, participants will design and issue a sample digital badge while exploring critical issues. Key Objectives: Participants will discuss motivation, assessment and pedagogy in the context of digital badges and teaching. Participants will deconstruct a badge to define achievement, criteria, ecosystem and issuer, graphics, expiration, and related metadata and concepts. Participants will examine proposed Open SUNY COTE badge system. Participants will contribute toOpen SUNY COTE badge system through group brainstorming. Digital badges offer an alternative to traditional pedagogies and assessment methods. With a carefully constructed badge system, instructors and trainers can award “credit” for work based on assessment and authentic learning experiences. Badges can serve as a source of motivation or as indicators of progress toward one’s goals. This workshop will walk participants through the proposed Open SUNY COTE badge system identifying where digital badges might fit in their own professional development. Participants will be asked to work with teams to explore the potential for badges throughout the Open SUNY COTE system and will earn a badge for their participation https://credly.com/credit/12368793.

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Digital Badges & Credentials
John Walber
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Making Achievements Visible:
The New Professional Currency
This is not
about badges.

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• Helping to make achievements and
credentials more visible and more useful
• Empowering people with a form of
professional capital that can improve
their lives
• Strengthening the relationship between
your organization and those you serve
What it IS about:

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• Skills people demonstrate
• Choices they make
• Communities in which they
engage
Badges verify & tell the story of:
Badges also help organizations
acknowledge and share what they value
in the world.

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Digital vs. embroidered badges
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Digital Badges
vs. Embroidered Badges
• Don’t need to fit on a sash!
• Can be seen whether you are
physically present or not!
• Pretty image + data!
• Evidence travels with them!
• Earned from lifelong interactions!
• Multiple sources, side-by-side!
• Can be awarded dynamically
when criteria are met!

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Adapted from http://classhack.com/post/45364649211/open-
badge-anatomy-updated by Kyle Bowen, Class Hack
1. A metadata
standard
2. A “packaging”
standard
Other
systems
like
this?
What other systems for sending
and receiving digital things work
like this?!

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Email
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Clients
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Badge
Clients
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It’s
like
a
Receipt:
AsserGons
“Assertion” Verifies Badge’s Validity
The earner’s badge is
“baked” with the data
about your achievement,
including a link back to a
“receipt” or “assertion”
from the issuer or a
trusted party.
The badge issuer or a
trusted party maintains
the “assertion” in
perpetuity, acting as
proof that the data in the
badge matches the
issuer’s original data.

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Now we know what
makes “Open Badges”
• Portable!
• Owned by the recipient!
• Machine-readable!
• Validated by the issuer!
• Verifiable by observers!
• Standardized technical
format!

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An industry association verifies skills
demonstrated outside the office.
Where’s the credit?
Source:
Flickr
@marcthiele
(Marc
Thiele)
A training program certifies hard and soft
skills needed to succeed.
Source:
Flickr
@24289877
(Hazel
Owen)

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A customer gets certified by a company for
use of their products.
Where’s the credit?

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Workshop participants demonstrate
entrepreneurship and innovation.
Where’s the credit?
Instructors or peers witness evidence of
discrete, marketable skills within a class.

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Someone participates in an activity led by
experts at a cultural institution.
Where’s the credit?
A visitor at the Dallas Museum of Art joins
the DMA Friends program.

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Someone completes a MOOC, a leadership
program, or a web design bootcamp.

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A job-seeking veteran wants to present her or his
military training as skills employers need.
Earners of badges own their achievements.

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Each person decides what they want to share.
Think of each line
on a résumé as
verified by its
source and
independently
sharable.

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Nothing has to change, but …
While we are re-inventing the
form recognition takes …!
… why not think differently
about assessment, too?!
Embedded and Authentic Assessments

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Embedded and Authentic Assessments
§ Participation / presence /
check-in!
§ Membership / interest group!
§ Geolocation-based!
§ Role-based!
§ External data source(s)
correlation!
§ Group Badges through
Individual Work!
§ Organizational Badges!
§ Given / Discretionary
!
§ Previously assessed /
Retroactive badges!
§ Expert review!
§ Peer review!
§ Self review!
§ Self-Claimed with Evidence!
§ Evidence submission or
confirmation !
§ Triggers!
§ Meta-triggers!
§ Test, quiz or assessment
!
Transforming Achievement Data into Credentials
Training Manager Certificate
SIIA Education Division
Board Member
MoMA Certified:
Art Academy
Successful completion of
the Training Manager
Certificate Program
offered by Training
Magazine
Member of the Education
Division Board of the SIIA
Certification for completing
The Museum of Modern Art Art
Academy Online Course,
November 2013.

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Earning Digital Badges based on real time,
contextual activities
Embedded Earning and Display

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Competency-Based Education
Source: http://www.ecampusnews.com/top-news/students-digital-badges-632/
Building a Digital Badge System for Open
SUNY COTE
John Walber
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Digital Credential Lifecycle Management

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Life
of
a
Badge
Idea
ConstellaGon
Build
Currency
A
good
place
for
badges
in
our
organizaGon
would
be
…..
A
good
idea
for
a
badge
in
our
organizaGon
would
be
….

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Name
your
badge.
What
does
your
badge
represent?
Membership,
ParGcipaGon,
Progress,
Skill/Competency?
Will
this
badge
require
assessment
and
if
so,
how
and
by
whom?
What
does
someone
need
to
do
to
earn
this
badge?
Give
a
one
sentence
or
phrase
descripGon.
If
someone
earns
this
badge,
what
opportuniGes
might
it
open
for
them?
If
someone
earns
this
badge,
how
will
it
reflect
back
on
your
organizaGon?
Motivation
# Badges should serve
as a “stamp of
approval” for
behaviors and
progress towards
goals that are
intrinsically motivating

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A
good
place
for
badges
in
our
organizaGon
would
be
…..
A
good
place
for
badges
in
our
organizaGon
would
be
…..
A
constellaGon
….
§ Provides
the
overall
picture
of
a
badge
system
§ Gives
a
sense
of
scale
§ Connects
the
parts
of
your
badging
system

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Badge
versus
badge
system

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Explorer
Interested
Open
SUNY
Fellow
Trailblazer
Interested
N2OL
Open
SUNY
Fellow
Champion
Experienced
Online
PracGGoner
Open
SUNY
Fellow
Mentor
Exemplar
Coach
&
Mentor
Open
SUNY
Fellow
Master
Expert
Online
InstrucGonal
Designer
Explorer
Trailblazer
Membership:
Interested
Professional
Development
Commitment
Commitment
Professional
Development
Membership:
Interested
N2OL
Community
Engagement
Open
SUNY
COTE
PD
Badge
ConstellaGons

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Mentor
Commitment
Professional
Development
Membership:
Exemplar
Coach
&
Mentor
Community
Engagement
Champion
Commitment
Professional
Development
Membership:
Experienced
Online
PracGGoner
Community
Engagement
Master
Commitment
Professional
Development
Membership:
Expert
ID
Community
Engagement

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Open
SUNY
COTE
Summit
Community
Engagement
Badges
Social
Media
Open
SUNY
COTE
Summit
Community
Engagement
Badges
Summit
2015

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Open
SUNY
COTE
Summit
Community
Engagement
Badges
Summit
CommemoraGve
What
does
community
engagement
look
like?
• What
do
you
currently
do
that
you’d
like
to
have
acknowledged?
• What
should/could
someone
do
to
demonstrate
engagement?
• How
can
COTE
support
you?

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Gold Star Gold Seal!
Assessment
What
needs
to
be
assessed?
§ By
whom?
Reviewed
or
automaGc?
§ Evidence?
§ Back
to
purpose:
parGcipaGon,
membership
or
skill/development?
§ Does
assessment
add
value
to
the
currency?

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The
look
-­‐
visuals
§ Concepts:
iconography
§ The
Noun
Project
§ Color-­‐coding
§ Size
and
shape
§ Do
you
need
words?

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Metadata
ü Describes
the
significance,
effort,
and
“weight”
of
the
accomplishment
ü IdenGfies
the
issuer
ü Provides
a
Gmestamp
ü May
link
to
evidence
ü Personalized
to
the
recipient

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Earners of badges own their
achievements.

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What
do
people
see?

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Social
Networks

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Using verified achievements to tell our story
and be discovered for new opportunities
Adding Verified Badges to Portfolios

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Adding Verified Badges to Portfolios
Adding Verified Badges to Portfolios

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Building a Digital Badge System for Open
SUNY COTE
John Walber
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Making Achievements Visible:
The New Professional Currency