FabCity Summit Paris 2018
FabCity Skills Development
and Pathway Learning
with Digital Badges
Geoffroi Garon-Épaule, M.A., PhD Candidate
Researcher and PhD Candidate in communication, UQAM (Montréal, Canada)
Entrepreneur – Human Capital Valorization, Digital Pygmalion
Talks | Paris, France, July 13, 2018
10 years digital consulting
(SME, Education, Health, Culture)
8 years in Open innovation
(Living Lab, Fab Lab, Blockchain, AI)
3 years in Digital Badges
(Startup + PhD)
Profile
http://digitalpygmalion.com
PhD codirection
Pierre-Léonard Harvey
Organizational Communication
Community
Informatics
Design Applied
to Digital Social
Systems
(Springer)
Ann-Louise Davidson
Educational Technology
www.educationmakers.cawww.lca.uqam.ca
Hub for experimentation and
training in technological and
social open innovation
8
2011
First in Canada
2010
Community Association Partner
2015-2018
Fab16 + FabCity
In Montreal, Canada
In 2020
Social inclusion – Education – Economy – Digital Fabrication
www.communautique.quebec
Community Association Partner
https://www.echofab.quebec
http://www.makery.info/2017/05/09/la-fab-city-grand-paris-et-so
FabCity axies
Challenges
Acceleration of everything
Automatization
Skill Gap - Skill Mismatch
21st century skills
Learning Methods
Sarah
Boisvert
The New Collar Workforce
Challenges in FabCity
Create and valorize new skills
Training all actors in axes/clusters
Data to understand and make decision
Create inclusion and recognition
Solution
Digitize skills and
learning pathways
with digital badges
Digital badges
They can be hosted, manage and shared across
digital files containing a set of encrypted metadata
that describe skill, experience or level of
accomplishment.
Digital badge is a digital file (web
page) that is a data and visual
representation of a learning or
accomplishment. It’s a tool that
confirms the evaluation of specific
experiences.
Digital Badges Definition
+
Context
Endorsment
Multilinguale
Digital Badge
https://www.cadre21.org/membres/thibaultm/accomplissement/badges/thibaultm-badge-classe-inversee-1-explorateur-5
Evidence associated with a badge
https://www.cadre21.org/app/uploads/preuves/55-1280.pdf
Image
Text
Video
PDF
Digital Badge Porfolio
https://www.cadre21.org/membres/thibaultm
The administrative component (dashboard)
can create badges, granting them to make
effective management and value them.
The user component (portfolio) presents itself
as a portfolio in which students collect, manage
and categorize their digital badges and above
display for communicating and sharing (social
media, website, etc.).
Digital badge system
• BackPack
• BadgeOS
• BadgeFactor
• Badgr
• P2PU
• Salava
Open
Platforms
Private
Platforms
• Acclaim
• Badgecraft
• Badgelist
• Credly
• DigitalMe
• Openbadge Factory
- Passport
• Canvas
• edX
• Moodle
• Totara
LMS
Platforms
Digital badge platforms
Badge Factor WordPress Plugin
www.badgefactor.com
Badgr, server platform
https://info.badgr.io
Public education, social engagement
(volunteering), learning spaces (Fab
Lab, Living Lab), online training
(applications, MOOC)
Improve talent management,
increase organizational
effectiveness and marketing
Support and motivate students,
customize learning,
complement (co-curriculum)
3 Contexts of Use
Academia
Workplace
Society
3 Uses of Digital Badges
Evaluate
Communicate
Structure
Motivation
Recognition
Certification
Artefact
Portfolio
Data
Learning
Organization
Ecosystem
Advantages of digital badges
The main advantage of this technology is to recognize formal and
non-formal learning and generate confidence. There are also a host
of other benefits such as:
•Valuing a greater diversity of learning and skills
•Mapping learning pathways
•Motivate the level of learner engagement and retention
•Recognize the different paths leading to a badge
•Develop and enhance cross-curricular competencies and skills that
are often difficult to qualify (communicate, collaborate, creativity).
•Support the implementation and recognition of learning with
pedagogical approaches based on skills and projects (learning
experience).
•Increase the identity and reputation of learners
•Enabling learners to discover peers by interest in a community
•Increase the brand of an organization
The value is built around
relationships among the
different actors and the
ecosystem that support
digital badges.
Issuer : Create and awards
the badge
Earner : Receive and
communicate the badge
Consumer : Recognize the
value of the badge
Earner
Issuer
Consumer
Trust
ecosystem
Digital badge value
Duolingo
Gamification to
learn a language
https://www.duolingo.com
Netmath
https://www.buzzmath.com/badges
Gamification to
practice Math
Mouse
http://www.mousesquad.org
Netmath
https://www.cityspan.com
Cityspan
CADRE21
https://www.cadre21.org
Teacher Professional development
CADRE21Teacher Professional development
https://enseigneraluniversite.com
Mai 2018 : 775 comptes enregistrés et près de 400
badges obtenus
CADRE21 Digital badge
https://enseigneraluniversite.com/members/geoffroi/badges/competences-de-base-en-pedagogie
CADRE21 Certificate
https://enseigneraluniversite.com/members/geoffroi/badges/competences-de-base-en-pedagogie
Université Wichita, Kansas
http://badges.wichita.edu/badgecatalog
IBM Digital Badges Program
https://www-03.ibm.com/services/learning/ites.wss/zz-en?pageType=page&c=M425350C34234U21
IBM have more than 1800
different digital badges.
Over 600,000 issued badges!
IBM Design Thinking Practitioner
https://www-03.ibm.com/services/learning/ites.wss/zz-en?pageType=badges&id=c98fdc5c-b5f5-4c00-bd61-2db0efabedde
https://www.ibm.com/design/thinking/page/badges
Entreprise Design Thinking Program
• Microsoft
• Oracle
• Cisco
• Autodesk
• Adobe
• HR Certification Institute
Corporate digital badges
échoFab/Communautique – Montréal (Canada)
http://echofab.org
3D Print
First Project
Drone
Piloting
Fab
Manager
San Diego Fab Lab, California (USA)
http://www.fablabsd.org
Le Dôme – Caen (France)
http://ledome.info
Asso BUG, Lab Fab – Rennes (France)
https://www.asso-bug.org
https://www.asso-bug.org
Catherine Cook School Makerspace, Chicago (USA)
https://medium.com/@jd_pirtle/getting-started-with-digital-badging-in-makerspaces-class
JD Pirtle
badgetheworld
http://www.badgetheworld.org
Digital Badges Around the World
Tedx laval
badgetheworld
www.tinyurl.com/badgepourlespace
Badges pour l’espace :
La nouvelle frontière pour l’humanité
Geoffroi Garon-Épaule, M.A., Ph.D Candidate
@geoffroigaron - www.geoffroigaron.com
Researcher and Ph.D candidate in Communication, UQAM
www.lca.uqam.ca
Entrepreneur, Digital Pygmalion
www.digitalpygmalion.com
E-mail : conseil@geoffroigaron.com
Phone : +1 514 773-3332
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FabCity Skills Development and Pathway Learning with Digital Badges - FabCity Summit 2018