1. Badging Digital Literacy
Hannah Gore
Senior Producer: Social & Syndication

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3. “Advancement and dissemination of learning and knowledge…to promote the general wellbeing of the community.”
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4. The Social Mission in Action
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6. Launched BOCs February 2015
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7. What Makes a BOC…a BOC? 8 Weeks in length 3 hours a week
24 hours of learning
Test quizzes Weeks 1-3 and 5-7
Badged quizzes weeks 4 and 8
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8. Why isn’t a BOC a MOOC? No forums No discussion activities
No Facilitators
No Lead Educator Present
No set start date
No set end date
No set learning pace
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9. BOC’s Now Live Succeed with Maths Part 1 Succeed with Maths Part 2
Succeed with Learning
First Steps into Higher Education
English Skills for Learning
Facilitating Learning Practice
Succeed in the Workplace
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14. Statistics to Date
Click through rates to make an enquiry with the OU for formal study are ~29-34% across all BOCs. Existing average click through rate is ~13% on OpenLearn
Average completion rate is ~9% which is slightly higher than MOOCs ~5%
Satisfaction rates are very high ~98%
Learners are willing to share their BOC achievements with their employer or prospective employer ~20-57%
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Data collated 20/05/2015

15. What the Learners Say…
“I found the course [Succeed with Maths Part 1] extremely worthwhile and I will be starting ‘Succeed with Maths Part 2’ straight away” “I am registered with the OU and I am taking BSc (Hons) degree computing and IT Q62 starting in September 2015 and this is an excellent way to brush up some skills” “Excellent experience, great for personal development and confidence” “Overall this was a positive experience and I would like to see other useful free courses become badged as well as the paid for course. Thank you for the opportunity to do something interesting” “I would like to thank the OU for all the hard work, and efforts that have been put into making these online courses free, and also enjoyable! It has really made a difference for me and will be taking more courses up in the near future”
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16. What the OU says…
Student Services have agreed that BOCs undertaken by OU students will be visible on the online Student Record and in Section 6.1 of the HEAR
Discussions are underway to provide all or part of the Access curriculum as BOCs
BOCs are actively promoted through the Social Partnerships Network
Developed the understanding and practice of Moodle Quizzes
BOCs are budgets at £25k each and utilise reuse of content
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20. Digital Literacy BOC Week 1: Your digital life
Week 2: Getting up and running
Week 3: Your digital identity/footprint
Week 4: Staying safe and legal
Week 5: Critical assumption
Week 6: The right tool for the job
Week 7: Digital literacy in your context
Week 8: Reflection and self-assessment
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21. Christmas
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23. Senior Producer: Social & Syndication Hannah.Gore@open.ac.uk @HRGore
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