1. Open Badges: New Opportunities in PD Tadd Farmer & Emily Pulham
Introduce ourselves (1 sentence).
What images/memories or words come to your mind when you think of Professional Development?
(Click for picture) We’re going to do our best to avoid this type of experience.
While there is a spectru of good-bad professional development, what we don’t see is a lot of CHOICE involved.
We are hoping to present a case for badges that will help you visualize how badges can provide customized opportunities for PD using technology.
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Tadd Farmer & Emily Pulham

2. Currency of our Education
Certificates
Grades
GPA’s/Transcripts
Seat Time
How many of you have ever gotten a certificate for attending workshops or seminars? (raise hands)
The currency of our education system is based in (list the bullets)
But what do these things really mean?
I took a class called Accounting 200 and I got a B+ (almost an A-!) but what does that really say about me?
In a similar way, when you’re done with UCET, what do the Professional Development points you gain from being here say about you? Did you learn a new skill or change in some way?
You’re here because you want to learn and improve yourselves and help your students.
All the things on this list are hollow credentials. Through digital open badges we have a way of showing what you actually learn in a credential.

3. What are Open Badges?
Emily: Ask for show of hands- who has heard of badges?
What have you heard about badges? (Shout them out!)

4. What are Open Badges? Open Badges Acknowledge accomplishment
Display evidence of skills gained thru meta-data
Add to a personal resume
Enable feedback on specific skills
Emily: Similar to merit badges
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5. Open Badge Information
Tadd:

6. Badge Rubric
Tadd:

7. Evidence
Tadd
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8. Current Badge Offerings
Emily: We are constantly updating and creating new badges. We have “agnostic badges” that indicate a concept you can learn, and specific technology badges.
We are just getting started!
What are some technologies that you’ve learned about at this conference that you’d like to receive a badge for?

9. Pre-service education teachers at BYU utilize badges
What we’re doing now
Pre-service education teachers at BYU utilize badges
Updated website:
Improved UX design and functionality
Badge sharing across institutions
Tadd: School district partnerships???
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10. Working with State Office for USOE credit Badge Partnerships
Future Directions
Working with State Office for USOE credit
Badge Partnerships
Government
Professional
Academic
International
Expanded Offerings
Tadd:
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11. E-mail us about badges you would like to see offered
What can you do?
Talk to your district technology specialist and school administrator about badges!
Get credit
us about badges you would like to see offered
Emily: School district partnerships?
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12. Questions, Comments, Ideas
Thank You ?
Emily: Dr. Rick West is the permanent contact who is making inroads on the state level.
Questions, Comments, Ideas
Dr. Rick West
Tadd Farmer
Emily Pulham
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13. Randall, D. L. , Harrison, J. B. , & West, R. E. (2013)
Randall, D. L., Harrison, J. B., & West, R. E. (2013). Giving credit where credit is due: Designing Open Badges for a technology integration course. TechTrends, 57(6), 88–95.
Davies, R., Randall, D., & West, R. E. (2015). Using Open Badges to Certify Practicing Evaluators. American Journal of Evaluation, 36(2), 151–163. doi: /
West, R. E., & Randall, D. L. (in-press). The Case for Rigor in Badges. In L. Muilenburg & Z. Berge (Eds.), Digital Badges in Education: Trends, Issues, and Cases. Routledge.