Open Badges are Here!
by Tom Wood
I have recently been sitting in on a number of open
conference calls with some of the leading thought
developers from around the world behind Mozilla’s new
Open Badges and it has generated much excitement about
the future of online e-learning badge rewards. Often the
discussions are based around how badges can be used
in education in the classroom or to help engage young
people with their learning journeys, and I have been
working on some concepts as to how they might apply to
the business world.
So far, I have seen some great work on using badges to
support CVs and job applications – I know that a nicely
designed CV with a collection of badges at the bottom
would definitely catch my eye – but not a lot about how
badges might be used as part of the internal appraisal
process. It is the latter that I have started focusing on.
The Current Scenario:
At the moment, an individual employee is likely to keep
records of their personal learning files and this might
include the following:
• Certificates of attendance for/ completion of face to
face training
• CPD Log
• Certificates from online learning courses
• Results print outs from online learning courses
• Results from key regulatory knowledge assessments
• Internal Training Log
There is likely to be a lot of information here, if the
employee has been keeping good records – but it is not
uncommon for us to visit clients and pick up an employee’s
learning file to find it either severely lacking in content
or out of date and not having been updated since the
previous year.
Why? It takes time to collate all that information in one
place and if you did, you might find you need a filing
cabinet for each member of staff. Imagine checking
through all of that at appraisal.
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