Happy to announce Call for Papers for the Workshop on Digital Certification of Competencies / Qualifications to be held at the DeLFI/HDI Conference 2018 at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main (Workshop day: Monday, 10.09.2018) Important dates 22.06. Deadline for submission of abstract (2-3 pages) via the conftool of DeLFI 2018 06.07. Feedback to submission about acceptance/rejection 20.07. Submission deadline for the Camera […]
Posts tagged open badges
Enhancing diversity with Open Badges
We are glad to announce that the upcoming EDEN Chat on 18 April 2018 starting at 20:00 CEST is dedicated to Open Badges and will be hosted by Ilona Buchem (Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany) in collaboration with EDEN on Twitter under the following hashtag #EDENChat Find out more about the event here: […]
Open Badges for Virtual Mobility
Today I presented Open Badges as part of Open Movement and Open Education at the Open Education Week 2018 #OEWeek. The focus of my presentation was on Open Badges for recognition of Virtual Mobility skills. Recognising Virtual Mobility Skills with Open Badges is the aim of the new Erasmus+ strategic partnership “Open Virtual Mobility”, in […]
Open Education Week and Open Badges
This week is Open Education Week 2018 and Open Badges are part of the OE ecosystem. Open Education Week is coordinated by the The Open Education Consortium: “Open Education Week’s goal is to raise awareness about free and open educational opportunities that exist for everyone, everywhere, right now. We want to highlight how open education can […]
Open Badges Summit in Chicago
The upcoming Badge Summit in Chicago focuses on the exploration of micro-credentials, access and equity. The summit is scheduled for June 23, 2018, at Columbia College Chicago. The summit is organised along five strands: K-12 Implementation Higher Ed and Teacher Professional Development Badging Community and Cultural Organization Badging Workforce Readiness & Industry Badging and Micro-credentials Hot […]
Digital Credentials Summit 2018
The Digital Credentials Summit 2018 hosted by IMS Global Learning Consortium will be held 27-28 February 2018 in Scottsdale, Arizona USA. The key focus of the summit will be to bring education, business, and policy leaders together. For example, the opening session will address the following challenge: “how educators and employers can work together to tap the […]
Open Badges Summit 2017
We are very pleased to announce that Open Badge Network is one of the supporters of the Open Badges Summit 2017 titled Modern Employment and Digital Credentials organised byIMS Global Learning Consortium and Digitalme in partnership with Open University and JISC and taking place on 1 Dec 2017 at RSA House – London, UK. We […]
Last OBN Meeting in Berlin
This past Thursday and Friday the Open Badge Network partners met for the last transnational project meeting in Berlin. We planned the closing of the project, which officially ends with the end of August 2017, and reflected the development and impact we have been able to made. We are proud to have jointly brought the project […]
Open Badges in India
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 […]
Penultimate OBN Project Meeting
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 […]