 No introduction Alan Brown was the president and CEO of the open group for 17 years until very very recently and Alan has spent the last three months plus focused on the Association of Enterprise Architects and One of the first initiatives there that he's bringing to that is the use of open badges for professional development So you'll have seen flyers about open badges here today and the ability to get a badge for attending this event speaking at this event Alan's going to explain a bit more about the program and how that works and I think it's going to be a somewhat of a repeat or at least a refresh at the partner pavilion this evening So last word from me is remember do come along to the partner pavilion this evening 545 start You'll hear some interesting stuff there and have the opportunity to Have some have some drinks and Network with those here, so That's it for me this morning, but Alan if I could ask you to educate us about Open badges and professional development. Thank you very much. Yes, very pleased to do so and congratulations on a really good conference as well So, yeah I'm very proud and privileged to be able to announce the launch of the AEA open badge program for professional development Steve says and tell you a little bit about it. I've got my prop. I'll come back to that later How many people are already aware before coming here of open badges? Oh, not so I'll share what I've gleaned Out some of the credentials or certificates that you have and have gained over the years and where you keep them The these two are are two of mine I It took me a long time to find them. They were tucked away in a bookshelf Not facing outwards. I know that some people have more malls in their offices and homes some in closets amongst their shoes But they have a number of drawbacks one of which is if they're stuck on my bookshelf No one really gets to see them and If they did they'd have to come to my house and their physical objects and it's that's quite difficult The other issue with these kind of certificates or credentials is that they're very monolithic It tells you that I've qualified as an accountant or I've spent time at the London Business School It doesn't actually tell you what I learned during the training process of the accounting process There's there's parts that you learn parts that you don't learn It doesn't tell you that and it doesn't tell you what you learned at Business School so what a lot of people have been thinking about is going back to The ability to display things in a more granular form and what they've done is they've gone back to This what the scouting movement does All right, what the scouting movement does is give you a badge For everything that you've achieved and every skill that you've managed to master And every exam that you've passed so whether it's camping skiing hiking Cookery drama photography astronomy There's a badge for it and you can put it on a sleeve or a sash And you can display it to anyone that wants to see And that's great because you can see the actual skills. They've got at a granular form What it doesn't do though, it doesn't overcome the fact that they are still physical badges So short of going around the world like this Not many people are going to see those badges, right? So people have been thinking in terms of how do we make this digital? Now, I'm sure that many of you are familiar with that badge How many people are a mayor of somewhere? Any mayors here? There's a few mayors. Okay So there's those kind of digital badges that you can share everywhere And there's not an awful lot of evidence to say you've really done that Okay, I went and stood outside a coffee shop and I pressed a button I got a badge, which is great, but it's not really robust and strong and full of evidence So what the Mozilla Foundation have done is they've thought about it in a way that Provides some credential of a skill or an achievement or something learned And they put together some infrastructure and they put together Near term some standards For you to build a form on which give our Digital badges And with your badges you can then promote them through your social media or anywhere else So I want to run through what a digital badge is Incoming technology Thank you Let me run through the Well The anatomy of a badge. So what is an open batch? What is a digital batch? Right? It's basically an image file. It's a png file And inside that is what I would call information. You guys might call it metadata, you know I call it information and that information is stored in a jason file and it's all meshed together In what they call badge baking Now badge baking they've used that term because once you've put all that information in and you've produced the badge It's very much like baking a cake Which is that you put all the ingredients in you mix them up And then you bake the cake and you cannot then take those ingredients out. It's there forever. All right And that information it'll have a badge name and description It'll have the criteria that the person that earned the badge had to pass had to achieve or had to demonstrate In order to get that badge the issuer in this case will be the aa The evidence that that person actually did that And the date issued now the date issued is important in some cases Like first aid or cpr where there's an expiration date So it can show the expiration date and if a badge expires it doesn't disappear It just shows that it's expired And then there's some standards and tax And with the concept of open badges there is also this concept of a backpack Voila backpack We have two models to demonstrate outside And the idea is that the backpack is where your your Badges are initially kept or always kept rule and the aa to this week Is in the is going to be capable of issuing three badges. It's our first start And we are issuing badges for conference attendee conference speaker And for a toga fuser group attendee. So if you are here It doesn't matter whether you're you don't have to be a member of the aa anyone that's attended this Can claim their attendee badge or their speaker badge or their attendee badge and their speaker badge Or their toga fuser group badge if they've been to the toga fuser group or all three Now once you have your badges Then you can decide where you can share them And you can decide if you're going to share them and where you're going to share them So you could share them in linkedin So far i've worked out how to share it on my news feed But i haven't quite worked out how to get it onto my profile You can share it on your personal blog and and other places. So There's ways of sharing these so that unlike the physical objects You can share these digital badges in a way that everyone can see what your skills and achievements are Now one badge doesn't tell you an awful lot about a person It tells you that they have attended an event Doesn't tell you much because they might never have attended another event But if you start collecting a few this starts to show that that person Is someone that is interested in developing in understanding more about what they're doing around these subjects It could be that there are badges offered for other things. It could be a forum chair A track organizer. It could be for someone that contributes to the jea Writes an article. It could be someone that does a webinar for the aa any of those kind of things Initially would build up and as you get more and more you can start to see More of this person you can see that this is a contributor someone that's learning but also sharing Someone that's capable of being a valued person to work with and it starts to build a a pretty decent picture Now badges are what they call stackable All right, and what that means is that you can have A number of badges that then build up to a larger one. Now my analogy for that is monopoly Okay, so you get a number of badges that are like houses Unless you've got sufficient houses on the property then you can have a hotel So that the smaller badges can build up to something bigger But the the problem is that We're starting off with a few badges for conference attendees and so on and and if we just sort of have a ramshack Set of badges. It doesn't really mean anything to anyone And it's difficult to understand or to understand what that picture of that person is Apart from being you know a regular contributor So what's happening in the background is that the aa is working with the open group And in particular the board work group responsible for the open certified architect certified it specialists and so on In breaking down those monolithic standards those monolithic certifications Because if you know about open certified architect open ca It is very monolithic You don't know if you're going to be able to do it or how to get there until you've actually got there And then you can sort of claim the certification Wouldn't it be great if we could actually see All of the parts and pieces that you need to achieve Wouldn't it be great if you can actually build a career path by understanding now Right now we don't actually know How all of this is going to be achieved How would you provide the evidence that someone has these soft skills has the mentoring skills Has achieved other criteria. We need to work all of that out But first of all we need to break it down into the parts and pieces And that provides a much more dynamic program because with a monolithic program it's very difficult to change Once we have it into a set of badges We can add a badge. We can modify a badge without change disrupting the entire program The other part of this as you can see is I've broken it down into four Steps along the way from left to right And this is an analogous to the accounting profession that I'm familiar with Which is that there are some badges you would need to earn in order to qualify to enter as a student There are then some badges that put together provide a collection that when you've achieved all of those you are at the intermediate level Now in the accounting world people that are hiring Understand what it is to hire someone that is part qualified to intermediate level. It means something But if they've just passed this exam and that exam and that exam and it doesn't add up to anything It doesn't mean anything at all. So they're looking for intermediate level Then the associate level is for a fully qualified accountant And people can then advertise in job ads for Part qualified or newly qualified post qualified five years with our industry experience if you look at current Job ads for enterprise architects. There's a whole list of technology stuff Whereas wouldn't it be great if we could just say are you a qualified enterprise architect? All right from a recognized body and then you go on to the fellow level, which is with experience All right, so that's where we'd like to go in the future And also then to creep into the it specialist world and into some of the others To claim a badge. It's as simple as Sending an email to open badges at globalaia.org. Hopefully you saw this flyer at the registration You can also just walk across the to the AA exhibit table and ask them for a badge Once you've registered for a badge or walked over there and Entered your details or sent them an email and they've got your details Then you can claim a backpack And as I said, there are two different styles. There's that style and one that's more of a messenger purse I think people call it handbag type thing If you need more information, please ask us, we're around We're going to redo this at the pavilion and hopefully do it better because we've learned something You can always visit the website at globalaia.org and if you go there, you'll see One of the tabs is AA open badges If you go to that tab, it will then start giving you some information about the program about how to share your badge Some FAQs and support So hopefully that's giving you some idea about what open badges are, what we're trying to do with the AA And finally I'd like to Please ask you go claim your badges Make them visible, support the program and I'd like to thank you all for your attention and support for this. Thanks