By successfully studying this course and meeting the required completion criteria you can gain a digital badge. There are two badges available:
Some of you may wish to complete both sets of quizzes to gain both badges, particularly if you gained a badge as a learner and then moved on to supporting new arrivals to the UK and want to gain recognition of your understanding of others’ experiences reflecting on their transitions.
Figure 1 Course badges
Badges are a means of digitally recognising certain skills and achievements acquired through informal study and are entirely optional. They do not carry any formal credit as they are not subject to the same rigour as formal assessment; nor are they proof that you have studied the full unit or course. They are a useful means of demonstrating participation and recognising informal learning.
If you’d like to read more about badges you will find more information on these websites:
To achieve a badge for studying Reflecting on Transitions you need to be enrolled on this free course and meet the following badge criteria:
Please note that you need to be enrolled on this course.
To enrol you’ll need to create an Open University account.
You are now enrolled and ready to start the course and quizzes.
The OpenLearn Works non-accredited badging system relies on trust. We trust you to answer the questions in the unit drawing on your own skills and knowledge as we do not have formal exams or invigilation as part of the units and course. The badge trust statement asks you to agree that the answers you submit to course quizzes are your own work and that you will not share answers with other learners. The badge trust statements are within the introduction to Session 1.
When you start a quiz you’ll see an information page that lists learning outcomes. Under this there is a statement reminding you that you can have only one attempt at submitting your answers to the quiz (except in quiz 1). You can have between 1 and 3 tries at each question within the quiz, and you can see the number of tries you have left at the top left corner of the question page.
The next page is an explanation of how to find your way around the quizzes. You can click through to view questions without having to answer them, using the navigation panel on the left of the screen.
Each question starts on a new page and has instructions on how to tackle it. There are different types of question: choosing from a drop-down list as in the example below; dragging and dropping answers into boxes; and multiple-choice questions.
If you click on ‘Check’ you’ll be checking to see whether your answers are correct. Most questions will give you some feedback and, if you need to, suggest you try again up to the number of goes you’re allowed.
If you click on ‘Next’ you’ll move on to the next question. You can leave a question unanswered or partially answered and come back to it later. However, you’ll see that completing one question can help you tackle the next one.
When you get to the final question, clicking on ‘Next’ brings up the quiz summary screen and an opportunity to submit your answers and complete the quiz for that session.
The Status column shows whether you’ve completed a question or whether you can have another go. You might not have completed all the questions, so you might want to go back and have another go.
The Marks column shows you how many marks you’ve achieved for each question so you can monitor your progress.
Once you’re happy that you’ve completed all the questions and/or used up all your goes you can click on ‘Submit all and finish’. You can only do this once for each of sessions 2–5, so it is important to be sure that you’ve done the best you can on each quiz.
Once you’ve submitted your answers you’ll see a summary of your achievement in this quiz, which will indicate whether you’re on track to pass the course and gain your badge. Once you have reviewed your answers you should return to the course by clicking on the ‘return to Reflecting on Transitions’ link.
When you get to the end of the course and have successfully achieved the completion criteria your course badge will be issued.
When you have successfully achieved the completion criteria you will receive your Reflecting on Transitions badge. You will receive email notification that your badge has been awarded and it will appear in your My Badges area in your profile. Please note it can take up to 24 hours for a badge to be issued.
Figure 7 Reflecting on Transitions badges
From within the Reflecting on Transitions course:
Go to the navigation block and under My Profile you can access My Badges. When you click on My Badges you will be taken to your My Badges page on OpenLearn Works.
To view the details of your badge, and to download it or add it to your Mozzilla Backpack, click on the badge and you will be taken to the Badge information page.
You can then either download this page to your computer or add the badge to your Mozilla Backpack.
The purple badge shows that:
The crimson badge shows that you have:
The Reflecting on Transitions badges do not represent formal credit or award. Rather, they demonstrate successful participation in informal learning activity.
Badges awarded within OpenLearn Works can be shared via the Mozilla Backpack.
You will need to create a Mozilla Backpack account.
When you have done this, click on the Add to backpack button and you will be asked to log into Mozilla if you have not already done so.
Follow the instructions on the screen and your badge should be automatically added to your backpack.
In the future we hope to be able to share our badges from OpenLearn Works to LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
Reflecting on Transitions was developed by Lindsay Hewitt and Christine McConnell of The Open University in Scotland in collaboration with Bridges Programmes. The optional quizzes for the related digital course badges for learners and support workers, respectively, were developed by Julie Robson (The Open University) and Jonathan Sharp (Bridges Programmes). The course was edited by Lindsay Hewitt and Jennifer Nockles (The Open University).
We are hugely grateful to Bridges’ clients, Mo, Ying, Eric and Natalia, whose stories have informed the development of this course and bring to life the activities within it. We hope you find something in their experiences that speaks to you as well.
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