Open Badge Network will be at Mozfest London 28th – 30th October on the Open Badges floor. Come and visit us to find out how you can support the adoption of Open Badges across Europe. Since Mozfest 2014, over 250 amazing badge projects have been shared via the Badge the World map. Over 100 of […]
Today I was pleased to introduce Open Badges to the group of French researchers from the FUSCIA Group via a remote, online presentation. The FUSCIA group members are involved in e-learning for engineering universities (French Grandes Ecoles). You can find out more about this group here: https://fuscia.info/comite-fuscia/ My presentation was dedicated to using Open Badges to […]
Since over ten years, Europass is a succesful portfolio of clearly defined but closed set of documents that individuals can use to communicate and present their qualifications and competences. But the labour market has transformed. People communicate and manage their skills and qualifications in new ways; employers need information to assist them understand, trust and recognise all forms of skills acquired […]
Synergy workshop at the 9th EDEN Research Workshop 2016 at Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, Germany: Big thank you to the EDEN team – Ildiko Mazar & Kriszta Mihalyi – for bringing two Erasmus+ projects together and inviting me to join the workshop of another Erasmus+/KA2 project called eLENE4work which was part of the 9th EDEN Research […]
The world is experiencing a major shift in the learning system. The previous forms of recognition of learning are becoming obsolete, and so are the referencing definitions and taxonomies related to education and training. Learners develop their skills and competences in a variety of learning environments, and not only in the context of formal education […]
“Open Badges for Distributed Assessment” was the title of my presentation given at the Workshop on Formative Assessment as part of Technology Enhanced Assessment (TEA) at the European Conference for Technology Enhanced Learning – EC-TEL 2016 – in Lyon, France. My aim was to conceptually link Open Badges to technology-enhanced forms of assessment and discuss Open Badges as […]
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 […]
Open Badges and the new European Guidelines for Validating Non-formal and Informal Learning At the end of 2015 Cedefop published an updated set of “European Guidelines for Validating Non-formal and Informal Learning” http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/publications-and-resources/publications/3073 The slim 61 page document is available in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish and is very useful to the open badge […]
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 […]
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