Navigating the Digital Landscape A Digital Passport Model

Navigating the Digital Landscape A Digital Passport Model Presented by Leonie Mc. Ilvenny August, 2015

Digital Literacies

ICT General Capabilities

Badges What is a Badge? • badge [baj]: a special or distinctive mark, token, or device worn as a sign of allegiance, membership, authority, achievement, etc. (Source: Dictionary. com) • A badge is a symbol or indicator of an accomplishment, skill, quality or interest. From the Boy and Girl Scouts, to PADI diving instruction, to the more recently popular geo-location game, Foursquare, badges have been successfully used to set goals, motivate behaviours, represent achievements and communicate success in many contexts.

Badge your way to ICT Competency

Gaming Badges

Digital Badges vs Open Badges • A digital badge is an online representation of a skill you’ve earned. Open Badges take that concept one step further, and allows you to verify your skills, interests and achievements through credible organizations and attaches that information to the badge image file, hard-coding the metadata for future access and review. • Because the system is based on an open standard, earners can combine multiple badges from different issuers to tell the complete story of their achievements — both online and off. • Badges can be displayed wherever earners want them on the

Mozilla Open Badge Infrastructure. • Acknowledge lifelong learning • Supports multiple badge issuers • Interoperable • Shareable across the web • Open standard • Portable badges • Central repository

ISSUER: Any association Organization or institution wanting to award a badge University Skill DISPLAYER: web platform where badges are displayed – can be public or private Job Training Open Learning Degree Competency EARNER: Individuals who earn the badges VIEWER: Employer Resume / portfolio / certification Lifelong Learning VIEWER: University Qualifications (Degree) BADGES: Earned for skills, achievements from the institution issuing the badge DISPLAYER: Personal / professional networks and Social Media

Badge Providers

Examples Three examples of how digital badges can be used

EXAMPLE OF THE METADATA ATTACHED TO A DIGITAL BADGE ICON ISSUER BADGE DETAILS ISSUE DATE BADGE CRITERIA EVIDENCE

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