(601) Designing Open Badges in the Wild

Open Badges are a relatively new concept in UK education - both formal and informal. Unlike in the US where there are a number of DML Competition-funded projects mid-way through their work, there is only one of these in the UK (Supporter2Reporter). Nevertheless, there are a number of people already doing some work in the area.

This session will allow participants to discuss how badges might be used within a UK context, as well as facilitate partnerships and understanding between diverse organisations. We'd like to get people thinking through badge system design in their particular context(s) and have a go at creating a badge in the session itself.

This session will be divided into two, one-hour sessions:

_Session 1

• Opening icebreaker activity
• Circle of people's experiences and context
• Overview of Open Badges and what people are doing with them - participants come up with three 'tags' for their (planned) project
• Break into small groups based on shared interests
• Circle with feedback from groups and further discussion
• Preparation for Session 2

_Session 2

• Opening circle, welcoming new arrivals
• Quick overview of Session 1
• Groups start designing badge, starting with behaviours they want to promote and moving on to considering metadata to include
• Quick break to share what groups have done so far
• Groups finish off, including rough graphic design
• Closing circle