1. The document discusses the use of open badges in Moodle and Totara Learning Solutions. It provides an overview of open badges and their technical specifications.
2. A case study is presented on how Qual IT, an independent IT testing company, developed a badge system using Totara to track employee skills and identify training needs. Their system aligned skills with the SFIA framework and had clearly defined assessment criteria.
3. The document concludes with proposing a knowledge café discussion where managers could discuss opportunities and barriers to adopting a badge system for their own organization.
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What can (or should) we do with Open badges - MoodleMootNZ 14
1. What can (or should) we do with Open Badges?
MoodleMootNZ 2014, NMIT
Maurice Moore, Qual IT, and
Yuliya Bozhko Totara Learning Solutions
2. Our presentation
1.What are Open Badges – technical overview (Yuliya)
2.Case Study – How Qual IT use Badges (Maurice)
3.Knowledge café (all)
3. Open Badges in Moodle
Totara Learning Solutions, 2014
Yuliya Bozhko
4. Mozilla Open Badges
http://openbadges.org
●Open framework
●Federated backpack
●Verification service
●Badges as evidence of competencies, skills, achievements, and informal learning
9. What you can do with badges in Moodle
●Badge creation and management in Moodle
●Block to display badges earned from Moodle site (internal badges)
●Support of direct "pushing" of earned badges to Mozilla backpack service
●Display of all badges in Moodle
10. How we award badges
●Badges are awarded based on criteria
●All criteria use a plugin architecture
●Can be issued manually (based on roles)
●Or automatically (calculated based on user activity)
oCompleting an activity or a set of activities
oCompleting a course
oCompleting a set of courses
oMinimum grade requirements
oCompletion date requirements
oFilling in personal user profile
●Criteria can be combined using simple rules
12. More information
Mozilla Badges - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges
Mozilla repositories:
https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges
https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges-directory
Moodle User Docs - https://docs.moodle.org/27/en/Badges
13. Case study:
Maurice Moore
Qual IT provides independent IT testing and assurance services
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14. For the company
What skills do our employees have?
What skills do we need to recruit?
Does our team skill-profile fit our needs?
Do we have an expert in ...…?
What training should we invest in?
How can
staff use
‘downtime’
effectively?
15. For the individual
What skills do I have?
What skills will help me achieve my career objectives?
How can I use my experience effectively?
Who can I talk to about ...…?
What training would benefit me the most?
How can I use
‘downtime’
effectively?
16. The Task
Design an aspirational development framework for staff
Meet the needs of management
• What skills we have
• What skills we need
17. Software Testing Skills
Run tests
Design Tests
Record Defects
Review Documents
Plan Testing
Assess Risks
Test Analyst
Reporting
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18. Version 1
•Badge concept developed in 2011-2012
•Custom design and build using MS Sharepoint early 2013
•5 Badge Categories
•57 Badges with up to 3 levels
19.
20. Version 2:
Why version 2?
•Need to develop clearer badge definitions, assessment criteria and processes
•Alignment to an external framework:- SFIA Levels 3-6
•Achieve multi-tenancy (of sorts)
Why Totara?
•To provide an end to end solution
•Make use of the:
•Organisation and Position hierarchies
•Appraisal functionality
24. What’s been built?
•A Badge system that:
–has clearly defined assessment criteria
–has a repeatable and auditable assessment process
–can be shared with multiple clients
–aligns with a published skills framework
–recognises practical skills
–has support resources for assessors
26. Knowledge cafe
Process: Multiple groups No individual group facilitator Discuss the question(s) in groups for 20 minutes Share thoughts with the whole group
Its all about the conversation
There is no ‘one-way’
each situation has it’s own features and benefits
27. The question(s)
Your manager (or a client) is excited about adopting Badges. You’ve been asked to develop a proposal for Badges@YourOrg.
1.What opportunities are there to use Badges in YourOrg?
2.What barriers are there and how can they be overcome?
28. Feedback
1.What opportunities are there to use Badges in YourOrg?
2.What barriers are there and how can they be overcome?
29. Thank you!
Yuliya Bozhko
yuliya.bozhko@totaralms.com
Maurice Moore
maurice.moore@qualit.co.nz
