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 […]
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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 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 […]
Open Badges for Open Education
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 […]
Open Badges as Open Credentials
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 […]
Open Badges and Open Education
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 […]