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Description

Tweet length: the “recognition mission” of the badge. Required.

Criteria

How does someone earn this badge? What learning activities? What assessment? How much effort? Be as clear and transparent as possible. Required.

Type of recognition?

One or more of (circle which apply):�

  • Course certificate (F2F, online) with summative assessment�
  • Certificate of participation - no assessment�
  • Certificate of participation - with evaluated reflection�
  • Formal certification of a skill or competency�
  • Self directed - based on a portfolio or evidence package�
  • Milestone – completion of a badged pathway�
  • Membership�
  • Achievement or service award

  • Other (describe)

Tags

1-5 words that may help classify the badge. Optional.

Required badge info

Expiration

Should it expire? Does it require renewal? In months. Optional.

Alignment

Does it align to a framework such as Essential Employability Skills? Optional.

Issuer Perspective

Which part of your institution is issuing the badge? How will this help them?

Earner Perspective

What is the target group? How will this help them?

Viewer/Consumer Perspective

Who will want to evaluate this badge and its earner? How will this help them?

Endorsement

Can another organization endorse this badge? Why? Formal or informal. Optional.

Badge image

Multiple languages

Should the badge info also be in French? An indigenous language? Another language?

Optional badge info

Background badge thinking...

Badge Canvas View

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Write a badge name on the label. Required.

A simple image in the white space. Required.

CanCred by Learning Agents via DigitalMe Open Badge Design Canvas, �Jisc Open Badges Design Toolkit, Serge Ravet's Canevas délaboration �& Badge Alliance Badge System Design Template

2022-02-16

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Design Challenge?

What challenge is your table addressing?

Solution?

How will you meet the challenge?

Analysis

Use any or all of the topics below to analyze your solution. Add your own topics as needed.

Portable recognition?

How does your solution authentically support recognition across silos?

Players?Who should be on the team? Within your organization? Other organizations?

Collaboration and co-creation or separate solitudes?

How will you work with the other players?

Agility, scalability, sustainability?

How will you grow and sustain your solution?

Blockers?

What are the barriers? What issues are we not talking about? How will you get past them?

Drivers?

Why will it work? Why does it HAVE to happen?

Additional notes

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“Step”

Badge Name

Pathways View

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Copy and build as appropriate. Be creative!

Milestone

Badge Name

“Step”

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Cluster

Sequence

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Milestone

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Milestone

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Nested Milestones

Super

Milestone

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Course

Placement

Assessment

Achievement

Electives (e.g. 2 of 4)

Sequential Program

Some step options

Certification

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Design Challenge - “Hard” Speciality Skills

Design a badge system to enhance a college program by developing and recognizing specific technical and other domain-specific skills that may be of interest to a sector or particular employers within the sector.

Design Challenge - Mid Career Transition

Design a badge system in partnership with a large employer or industry organization that can help workers in transition “ladder” into a new sector.

(Option: design these credentials with no initial academic credit but standardize them so they can become flexible components in future assemblies of targeted evidence packages for academic credit via PLAR/RPL. What would make these badges easier to PLAR?)

Design Challenge - International Students

Design a badge system for international students that improves their opportunities for employment working between academic terms and their eventual transition to the workforce.

Design Challenge - Work Integrated Learning

Design a badge system that supports the development, evaluation and recognition of employability skills in Work Integrated Learning (WIL) programs as apprenticeships, internships, co-ops or other forms of work placement.

Design Challenge - Faculty Onboarding & CPD

Design a badge system that supports flexible faculty development to support skills and knowledge development. Should support flexible learning pathways, individual reflection and socialization as much as possible.

Design Challenge - Workforce Adjustment

Design a badge system that will help workers transition from a sector or large employer being downsized.

Design Challenge - Immigrant Integration

Design a badge system for recent immigrants that integrates development, assessment and recognition of language skills, qualifications recognition, employability skills and/or work experience to improve their integration into the workforce.

Design Challenge - Employability Skills

Design a badge system that will help students develop and demonstrate the human soft skills that will help them adapt and succeed in the 21C workplace.

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Design Challenge - College-Wide Learning Outcomes

Design a cross-curricular badge system that authentically recognizes and leverages College-Wide Learning Outcomes or Program Learning Outcomes as employability skills to improve student transition from education to the workforce.

Design Challenge - Credit-capable badges

Design a badge system that can be credit-bearing. You may choose to build credit in from the start, or make it PLAR-able at a later date. How would you do this? What are the pros and cons of doing this in your institution?

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Design Challenge - Co/extra-Curricular Learning

Design a badge system captures, evaluates and recognizes co-curricular and/or extra-curricular learning as a way to develop employability skills to improve student transition from education to the workforce. This may leverage College-Wide Learning Outcomes or broader employability skills frameworks.

Design Challenge - Access for underserved populations

Design a badge system that helps a targeted underserved population transition to post-secondary education and/or the workplace. The system should balance accessibility and respect for the individual with authentic and robust assessment/development/recognition of “college-ready” or “work-ready” skills.

Design Challenge - TBA

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Design Challenge - Applied Research

Design a badge system that supports the development, evaluation and recognition of technical and employability skills of students and/or employer partner staff in an Applied Research program.