News Release | May 03, 2017 At the end of April, the European partners who cooperate in the field of Open Badges held their project meeting at DUO in Groningen. The three-year Erasmus + project ‘Open Badge Network’ is now coming to an end. DUO, is part of the Dutch Ministry of Education. DUO’s International […]
This is a report from https://ibuchem.wordpress.com: This March I had an opportunity to visit the Staff Training and Research Institute of Distance Education (STRIDE) at the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in New Delhi, India. I was invited to give a workshop on Open Badges as part of the STRIDE activities at IGNOU. IGNOU is one of the […]
Today at the second day of the partner meeting in Groningen, Netherlands, we talk about the Open Badges MOOC – sharing the experiences from the first two sessions and planning session 3. Here is an overview of the sessions: Session 1: Employers’ engagement with Open Badges – 16 January to 10 March 2017 Session 2: […]
The Open Badge Network Team meets this Monday and Tuesday for the penultimate transnational project meeting in Groningen, Netherlands at the headquarters of our partner DUO: Education Executive Agency, which is part of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. Some of the key issues on our agenda are: OBN Business Plan and ensuring sustainability of […]
The Action Lab “Scaling up Open badges for Open Education” took place at the Open Education Global Conference in Cape Town, South Africa 10 years after the Cape Town Open Education Declaration! Thank you to all participants in this Action Lab for your interest in Open Badges and your valuable contributions to the question: “How […]
The Open Education Global Conference 2017 took place 8-10 March in Cape Town, South Africa. I was a great conference with a great number of interesting contributions and superb researchers and practitioners so I was very pleased to attend and introduce Open Badges as elements of Open Education in form of an Action Lab (see program and […]
The OBN project consortium is glad to welcome you among its registered users. Let us inform you that a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on how to recognize non-formal and informal learning is going to be organized within the framework of the project starting on 16th January 2017. For the first Session, enrollment is starting […]
Hamelhuys, located in Groningen NL, is a walk-in consultation centre for cancer patients and their families. These consultation centres work with volunteers, are not-for-profit and depend financially on donations and sponsors. This was the environment where an Open Badge pilot started, with the following characteristics: Badges are based on a existing competency standard, they are […]
What if we could easily link our Open Badges to existing competency definitions? Vision: This would allow Open Badge portals and algorithms, that present Open badges, to calculate a weight of a badge, to visualize similarity and amendment of Open Badges and more. Badge issuers thus need an easy way to find the proper URLs […]
As part of our role in running the Open Badges floor at Mozfest next week, at Digitalme we have been reflecting on some of the great examples of badges in action that we have been lucky enough to work on over the last year. The adoption of Open Badges continues to grow globally and in […]
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