This document discusses open digital badges in higher education. It defines digital badges as credentials that represent skills, interests, and achievements earned through various activities. It provides examples of organizations that issue badges, such as Codecademy and TripAdvisor. The document outlines how open badge systems work, involving earners, issuers, displayers and audiences. It also discusses open badge design considerations, taxonomy, and how higher education institutions have implemented badge systems to recognize formal and informal learning.

1. OPEN BADGES
IN HIGHER
EDUCATION
JOYCE SEITZINGER
OCTOBER 2015

2. ACTIVITY: SKETCH YOUR BADGE
SHARE W #ICDEUNISA

3. HOW DO OPEN BADGES
WORK?

5. Image cc license @BryanMMathers http://bryanmmathers.com/

7. DIGITAL BADGE DEFINITION
• “Digital
creden.al
that
represents
skills,
interests
and
achievements
earned
by
an
individual
through
specific
projects,
programmes,
courses
or
other
ac.vi.es.”
(Mozilla,
2013)

8. CODEACADEMY

10. TRIPADVISOR

12. MOZILLA’S OPEN BADGES
“Learning
today
happens
everywhere.
But
it's
oJen
difficult
to
get
recogni.on
for
skills
and
achievements
that
happen
online
or
out
of
school.
Mozilla
Open
Badges
helps
solve
that
problem,
making
it
easy
for
any
organisa.on
to
issue,
manage
and
display
digital
badges
across
the
web.”

13. OBI
(open badge infrastructure)

16. Image cc license Kyle Bowen

17. YOU MAY ALREADY HAVE BADGE POWERS

22. BADGE ALLIANCE

23. ADOPTED BY IMS

24. HOW DO OPEN BADGES
REALLY WORK?

25. EARNER, ISSUER, DISPLAYER,
AUDIENCE

27. CREDLY

28. OPEN BADGE PASSPORT
By Open Badge Factory

31. BADGES ARE LIKE LEARNING CURRENCY

32. DEPEND ON TRUST
Cclicensehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/
orinrobertjohn/

33. DEPEND ON CRITERIA & EVIDENCE
https://www.flickr.com/photos/somegeekintn/

34. GRANULAR WITH DIFFERENT
DENOMINATIONS

35. STACKABLE
FACE
BOOK
INSTA
GRAM
BLOG
TWIT
TER
YOUT
UBE
SOCIAL
NINJA

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37. BADGE DESIGN

39. BADGE SYSTEM DESIGN

40. http://carlacasilli.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/badge-pathways-part-1-the-paraquel/
BADGE SYSTEM DESIGN

41. 3 PART BADGE SYSTEM
http://carlacasilli.wordpress.com/2014/03/17/a-foundational-badge-system-design/

42. Content
Achievement
Capability
Poten.al
Par.cipa.on
Membership
Commitment
Encouragement
Issuer
Organiza.onal
Team
Social / Peer
Process
Ac.vity
Mission
Assignment
Composite
Progress
Grade
Hierarchical
BADGE TAXONOMY
https://ibuchem.wordpress.com/2015/02/28/digital-badges-
open-badges-taxonomy/

43. LEAN STARTUP CYCLE FOR BADGE SYSTEMS
IDEAS
BADGESDATA
BUILD
MEAS
URE
LEARN
Build
faster
Incremental
deployment
Just-­‐in-­‐8me
scalability
Developer
sandbox
Simple
prototypes
Usability
tests
Op8mise
your
badge
marke8ng
Measure
faster
Have
a
clear
badge
owner
Real
8me
alerts
on
badge
issues
Usability
tests
Do
user
surveys/focus
groups
A/B
tes8ng
Learn
faster
User
analy8cs
Weekly
reports
Badge
owner
repor8ng
Image CC license BY-SA
Joyce Seitzinger / Academic Tribe

44. CONSIDER BADGE ECOSYSTEM

45. HIGHER EDUCATION BADGE
PROJECTS & IDEAS

46. PURDUE UNIVERSITY - PASSPORT

47. https://adventuresinbadging.wordpress.com/2014/08/27/do-looks-matter-
discussing-badge-design-with-anu-students/
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

48. OLDS MOOC

49. DEAKIN DIGITAL

50. OPEN BADGE ACADEMY

51. OPEN BADGE EXCHANGE

52. CHALLENGE: DESIGN OR CONNECT
THE LEARNING EXPERIENCES
BAD
GE
Formal
Informal

53. CHALLENGE: YOU WILL HAVE TO
DEAL WITH BADGES COMING IN

54. TAKE A BREATH…

55. -JOI ITO
I DON’T THINK THAT EDUCATION
IS ABOUT CENTRALIZED INSTRUCTION
ANYMORE;
RATHER, IT IS THE PROCESS [OF]
ESTABLISHING ONESELF AS
A NODE IN A BROAD
NETWORK OF DISTRIBUTED CREATIVITY.

56. LEARNERS CAN PAINT A MAP OF
THEIR LEARNING IN THE NETWORK
CclicenseFlickrhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/cmkalina/
5223696997/

57. Image cc license @bryanmathers

58. SO… TO BADGE OR NOT TO
BADGE?

59. THINKING HATS CONVERSATION

60. THINKING HATS CONVERSATION

61. THINKING HATS CONVERSATION

62. THINKING HATS CONVERSATION

63. THINKING HATS CONVERSATION

64. THINKING HATS CONVERSATION

65. THINKING HATS CONVERSATION

66. Joyce Seitzinger
@academictribe
www.academictribe.co
hello@academictribe.co
BE A NODE IN OUR NETWORK!

67. YOU GET A BADGE!
To
claim
• Go
to
Credly.com
• Use
claim
code
7B6-­‐1E02-­‐09B
Or
email
hello@academictribe.co