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Open Badges : New Credentials and New Opportunities

Discover the world of open badges, a new form of digital credentials that offer learners the opportunity to showcase their skills and achievements. Explore the benefits of adopting badges in education and how they can enhance employability. Unlock a new world of opportunities with open badges.

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Open Badges : New Credentials and New Opportunities

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  1. Open Badges: New Credentials and New Opportunities

  2. What are Badges? Historically • Recognisable award system • Symbol of authority • Brand Loyalty • Proven Motivational system • Boy Scout / Girl Guide awards

  3. What are Digital Badges? (the New bit) • Effectively three years old • Open Architecture • Digital Natives already value Badges • New Credentials for a new technology landscape

  4. Why Adopt Badges? “Revised qualifications need to be developed in partnership with schools, Higher Education and industry.” ICT steering group report to Welsh Government “over the next three-to-five years, as more institutions start using Open Badges, it may be necessary to support Open Badges in order to remain attractive to potential students”. Glover, I. (2013). Investigating perceptions and potential of open badges in formal higher education

  5. Because - • If students leave Further Education – • Or even Secondary Education, With Badges They will seek Universities that offer Badges

  6. How are Badges earned? • The issuer determines the criteria for which the earner provides evidence of learning, usually to an agreed rubric. • The learner demonstrates competency to an agreed criteria and they earn the badge.

  7. How Open Badges are used

  8. Example of backpack

  9. Behind the Badge

  10. What skills do employers want? • Teamwork; • Problem Solving; • Communication; • Time Management; • IT Skills; • Numeracy; • Customer Awareness. Do our degrees deliver these skills? Can employers see the evidence? Could we Badge these skills instead?

  11. Employers often ask for knowledge of • Diversity • Equality • Data Protection • Freedom of Information • Health and Safety. Do our degrees deliver these skills? Can employers see the evidence? Could we Badge these skills instead?

  12. The Opportunities • Digital Credentials supporting E-Learning • Awards designed to meet learners needs • Employabilitygained through targeted competency awards • Recruiting Global learners • Early adopters secure market share

  13. Thank you for listening

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