Just recently Badge Alliance issued a Companion to the Open Badge Specification to help the general audience in getting to grips with the key technical elements of Open Badges: “This guide was written for non-technical audiences as a companion to the Open Badges Technical Specification version 1.1. Thanks to IMS Global for arranging contributions. This is […]
I had a chance to present Open Badge Network in two sessions at the EDEN 2016 Conference in Budapest on 17 July 2016. The EDEN 2016 Conference was dedicated to re-imagining learning environments and Open Badges fit very well into the discussion about how learning environments should/could be designed and developed in the future. With more and […]
Last week I gave a keynote on Open Badges at the #JFMH2016 at TU Darmstadt. The title of my keynote was: Experiment “Open Badges” – potentials and challenges of digital verification of competences in higher education. You can find out more about the content of my keynote and my slides here: English: ibuchem.wordpress.com/2016/06/19/experiment-open-badges German: jfmh16.edulog-darmstadt.de/programm/keynotes/keynote-buchem Here is the link to my […]
Open Badges are part of the Open Education movement. Open Education is in turn part of the Open Movement, which started with the Open Source concept towards the end of the 1990ies. The Open Source approach is directly linked to Mozilla, created as a free-software community by members of Netscape, who publicly released the source code of the Netscape Communicator […]
Open Badge Network (OBN) held its second multiplier event on 2nd December at Online Educa Berlin 2015 (OEB2015). Online Educa Berlin is the global, cross-sector conference on technology supported learning and training. In December 2015, over 2,000 participants travelled from more than 90 countries for three days of discussions, debates, labs, demos and special events, to network with international experts and to […]
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