“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]