Integrating Open Recognition into program and course designs
Dr Doug Belshaw & Anne Hilliger
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Bryan Mathers
Cooperator
Genius illustrator.
Techie.
Is drawing you right now.
Laura Hilliger
Strategist & Idea Maker
Creative genius. �Tech wizard.
Expert facilitator.
Doug Belshaw
Open Thinkerer
Tech sherpa. �Writer.
Open advocate.
John Bevan
Convenor & Connector
Co-op radical.
Partnership wizard.
Zen in the room.
Anne Hilliger
Cooperator
Media Educator.
Learning design novice.
Gender studies aficionado.
Studying abroad at the University of Lapland
This is the only proof
Your Experiences have value by Visual Thinkery is licenced under CC-BY-ND
Open Badges
Open Badges (P.S. there’s data inside…) by Visual Thinkery is licenced under CC-BY-ND
OpenLearn
OpenLearn
Credentialing within Higher Education
Recognition vs Credentialing by Visual Thinkery for WAO is licenced under CC-BY-ND
Open Recognition is the awareness and appreciation of talents, skills and aspirations in ways that go beyond credentialing. This includes recognising the rights of individuals, communities, and territories to apply their own labels and definitions. Their frameworks may be emergent and/or implicit.
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Community of Practice by Visual Thinkery for WAO is licenced under CC-BY-ND
Myth of the Lightweight badge
All badges have some value. Badges layer upon each other: no badge is entirely independent of any other badge—at least not to the badge earner. Just as all badges operate in contextual ways, participation badges live alongside other badge types. They can and do interconnect in ways that may be far outside of their issuer’s original intent. This is one of an open badge’s best features—they act as connectors! Perhaps even better, all badges act as touchstones for the earners.
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What’s a badge really worth? by Visual Thinkery is licenced under CC-BY-ND
Intern experiment
In 2021 we took on Anne as an intern in the middle of a pandemic. We designed a whole programme for her!
Intern experiment
We’d never had an intern before, but we’ve got lots of badge design experience, so we… designed some badges!
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Intern experiment
As it turned out, those badges weren’t very relevant, so we ended up co-designing badges we didn’t even know would be useful!
(co-design)
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Badges that I would like to have in my Finland backpack
Personal development
Cultural awareness
Knowledge, skills, �understanding
Badges that I would like to have in my Finland backpack
Issuing Open Badges by Visual Thinkery is licenced under CC-BY-ND
Keeping Badges Weird by Visual Thinkery for WAO is licenced under CC-BY-ND
These slides: https://bit.ly/3EKsrfL