EDUBADGES - Broader rationale of establishing SURF edubadges
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Presentation held at the DAAD Seminar 1 July 2021: Micro-credentials in the EHEA Small Learning Units – Big Opportunities? Presentation of SURF edubadges • broader rationale of establishing SURF edubadges (recognition of learning outcomes, lifelong learning, increasing flexibility and learner-centricity)
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EDUBADGES - Broader rationale of establishing SURF edubadges
- 1. July 1st, 2021 DAAD Conference Micro-credential initiatives and good practice examples Frans Ward SURF, the collaborative ICT organisation for Dutch education and research EDUBADGES Broader rationale of establishing SURF edubadges
- 2. SURF is the cooperative organisation for IT in Dutch education and research Our mission: improve the quality of Dutch education and research through IT innovation
- 3. Increasing focus to enhance flexibility for students
- 5. The road to an educational system with digital credentialing needs…. Technology / infrastructure • SURF provides an infrastructure which all Dutch HEI may use to issue edubadges. Policy / frameworks • 18 Dutch institutions working on ideas to make education system more flexible. • Developing policy for issuing microcredentials, with support of the ministry of education. Photo by Andrew Itaga on Unsplash
- 6. SURF edubadges project 2016-2020 Can we develop an infrastructure for Dutch educational institutions to award digital credentials to their students in the form of open badges? Could this become a sustainable service with significant added value to the education system as a whole? Can this make Dutch education more flexible and students and workers more mobile? 2016: Whitepaper 2017-2018: Proof of Concept 2019-2020: Pilot with 16 institutions Oct 2020: Service offering for Dutch education
- 7. Additions & Changes made to the original product & standard Metadata extensions Persistent Identity Extended Roles and Permissions model GDPR compliant flow for requesting and issuing badges Photo by Mitchell Luo on Unsplash
- 8. https://www.flickr.com/photos/tpapi/2765541278/ 1) NEED METADATA EXTENSIONS https://www.flickr.com/photos/thewavingcat/5237465823/
- 9. Added 10 Metadata Extensions Adding European centric metadata extensions and aligning with Bologna tools like the Diploma Supplement ISSUER • InstitutionNameExtension • InstitutionIdentifierExtension • GradingTableExtension BADGECLASS • LanguageExtension (Language of instruction) • ECTSExtension (Number of European Credit Transfer Points) • StudyLoadExtension (Study load in hours) • TimeInvestmentExtension (Time invested in hours) • EQFExtension (European Qualifications Framework) • LearningOutcomeExtension • EducationProgramIdentifierExtension YES! I’m number one! Not. yet… Should weexplain him our country’s grading system?! https://wiki.surfnet.nl/display/edubadges/metadata+extensions
- 10. 2) NEED PERSISTENT IDENTITY Photo by Alex Iby on Unsplash
- 11. Characteristics of the eduID • Identity for students • Life long usable • Under the control of the user • Respects privacy • Increase level of assurance • Enriched with attributes from external sources
- 12. Photo by Caleb Woods on Unsplash 3) NEED BETTER STRUCTURE & ROLES / PERMISSION MODEL
- 13. FINE GRANULAR ROLES AND PERMISSION MODEL • Institution admin can administer all users within their institution • Access to the Issuer Portal is by invite only EXTENDED STRUCTURE • Need for more levels • Option to define groups
- 14. https://www.flickr.com/photos/tpapi/2765541278/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/thewavingcat/5237465823/ Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash 4) NEED GDPR COMPLIANT FLOW FOR REQUESTING AND ISSUING BADGES
- 15. The user is in control Students need to be able to easily and securely share or withdraw their verifiable digital credentials to anyone they wish to, when they want to and where they want to. The user-ID is an eduID that is fully under the control of the user and respects GDPR. Default awarded edubadge is private Issued edubadges are private until the earner decides to make them public. Privacy statements per institute and per type of edubadge (formal / non-formal). Given statements of agreements can be withdrew without loosing your edubadges.
- 16. WHAT IS/ARE EDUBADGES? Photo by Honey Yanibel Minaya Cruz on Unsplash
- 17. Edubadges is the digital certificates platform for the Dutch education community. Edubadges enable you to award learners with evidence of knowledge and skills they have acquired. Edubadges was developed with and for Dutch (higher) education. Edubadges: issuing digital certificates to students
- 19. Formal Non-formal Informal open badges Life Long Learning Formal learning: Learning that takes place within an education aimed at obtaining a government-recognised diploma. Non-formal learning: The learning takes place intentionally within an education institute but outside the framework of formal learning (extracurricular learning). Informal learning: Learning takes place without intention and without planning and usually outside the educational institution. Life Long Learning MICRO-CREDENTIAL
- 20. Edubadges Status & Roadmap Already 20 institutions onboarded; >250 badgeclasses ; > 2500 edubadges awarded. Edubadges can be awarded on enrolment or direct award basis, to own students or students from other educational institutions. Interest in using the edubadges platform within international consortia/affiliate partnerships. Investigate aligning/combining with Verifiable Credentials. Photo by Andrew Itaga on Unsplash
- 21. We are not there yet…. Standards are evolving… Open Badges 3.0: combining the best of Open Badge & Verifiable Credentials to one digital credential standard for lifelong educational activities, either formal & non formal. Identity vs GDPR We still have the issue with digital identities. Different credential systems use different ID’s. People have many ID’s. Improving findability of digital credentials Need for a uniform backpack/wallet? Central EUROPASS Wallet or discovery protocol for digital credentials? Photo by Armand Khoury on Unsplash
- 22. 22 Frans Ward, frans.ward@surf.nl E-mail: info@edubadges.nl www.surf.nl/edubadges Driving innovation together CC BY 4.0 Attribution 4.0 International
Editor's Notes
- SURF is the cooperative organisation for IT in Dutch education and research. Our mission: improving the quality of Dutch education and research through IT innovation. In this way, together we can make better and more flexible education and research possible. The SURF cooperation serves more than 100 education and research institutions, with more than 1 million users. Vocational secondary education, Universities of applied sciences and Research Universities
- One of the main themes in different strategic plans and programmes by SURF, our stakeholders and the ministry of education is the increasing demand to organise more flexibility for students in Higher Education. Ambition ministry of education: More flexible, customised higher education will meet the needs of a diverse student population including working adults and benefit some of the young people coming from secondary education too. Digitalisation in particular presents many opportunities for this
- As a result we have a national approach to organize flexible education which is based on the needs of the student.. These are the 4 components that SURF is currently working on in the national approach to organize flexible education by developing an ICT-infrastructure for studentmobility: Exchange of educational data (OOAPI) and the OOAPI-Gateway A persistent identity that can be used across institutions (eduID) Edubadges: digital certificates that enable micro-credentialing and value extracurricular activities
- One of the building blocks for flexibilisation is mirocredentialing! And to develop an educational system with digital credentialing you’ll need Technology and an infrastructure SURF provides an infrastructure which all Dutch HEI may use to issue edubadges. But as important is the need for Policy and frameworks 18 Dutch institutions working on ideas to make education system more flexible. Developing policy for issuing microcredentials, with support of the ministry of education.
- SURF started in 2016 investigating if Open badges could be used as tool for issuing digital crecentials The aim or questions that we have asked ourselves in the beginning: - Can we develop an infrastructure for Dutch educational institutions to award digital credentials to their students in the form of open badges? - Could this become a sustainable service with significant added value to the education system as a whole? - Can this make Dutch education more flexible and students and workers more mobile? We started in 2016 with a desktop study with a whitepaper as a result. Then we did a proof of concept and a year later we started to develop on the Badgr codebase and did a pilot with 16 institutions. This year we developed a new frontend application and started service delivery to Dutch intermediate vocational and higher education.
- We faced many technical challenges and to highlight a few, the first issue we identified is the need for additional metadata in the open badge.
- Bij metadata extensions uitleggen dat we belangrijk onderscheid maken tussen formal (microcredentialing) en non formal badges. Luckily the IMS Open Badge Specification allows to add your own metadata extensions. And so we did. We needed 10 additional metadata fields to comply with the European Educational Standards that have been agreed upon in the Bologna Tools like the Diploma Supplement. The Diploma Supplement is produced by higher education institutions according to standards agreed by the Commission, the Council of Europe and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It is also part of the Europass framework transparency tools. InstitutionIdentifierExtension: in the Netherlands called 'BRIN CODE'. The national identifier of an institution. GradingTableExtension: URL to the grading table: Grading tables facilitate interpreting, comparing and translating grades between institutions. InstitutionNameExtension: The name of the institution that the issuer is part of.
- The next big issue was the need for a persistent identity of the badge earner. I know that most applications use the email address, but when you think about it, it doesn’t make sense. Especially when you are using the email that is supplied by the institution and what you loose when you no longer study there.
- So in edubadges we are using the eduID, which is another SURF development. An eduID is a life long usable identity for learners, that is fully under the control of the user. It respects GDPR and it can be enriched with attributes from, for instance, your educational institution, So it can aquire an elevated trust level, which is important when you issue badges.
- The next issue that I would like to highlight here is the need for a better structure and roles / permissions model. This is due to the fact that the institutions that we serve, have different use-cases and are differently organized. They also would like to be in control of the structure and permissions of their users, without our interaction. So we added an additional structure layer: the issuer group and added a more granular roles and permissions model.
- Edubadges are digital certificates which show that the owner has acquired certain skills or knowledge. Edubadges can be issued for both accredited education and extracurriculair activities. Edubadges is the digital certificates platform, using the open badge standard, that enables all Dutch higher education institutions to award students or workers with evidence of knowledge and skills they have acquired. Students expect convenience and freedom of choice to study what they want, where they want, in their own time and at their own pace. Not just during their studies, but afterwards too. By issuing Edubadges we offer them the flexibility they are looking for.
- In Edubadges we actually distinguish 2 types of edubadges: formal and non-formal edubadges. A formal edubadge is in fact a micro-credential when you look at in from the definition of the European Commission.
- We have come a long way already, but we are not there yet. Because, standards are evolving. We look forward to the upcoming Open Badges 3.0 specification, combining the best of Open Badges & Verifiable Credentials to one digital credential standard. We still have issues with digital identities. Different credential systems use different ID’s. People have many ID’s. And then there is the need for improving findability of digital credentials Do we need for a uniform backpack/wallet? Could a Central EUROPASS Wallet or perhaps a discovery protocol for digital credentials be the solution?
- SURF is the cooperative organisation for ICT in Dutch education and research. Our mission: improving the quality of Dutch education and research through ICT innovation. In this way, together we can make better and more flexible education and research possible. The SURF cooperation serves more than 100 education and research institutions, with more than 1 million users. The SURF cooperation serves more than 100 education and research institutions, with more than 1 million users.
- Ieder van ons heeft een digitale identiteit nodig die hij bezit en controleert. Een die alle elementen van onze digitale identiteit veilig en privé opslaat. Deze eigen identiteit moet naadloos in ons leven worden geïntegreerd en ons volledige controle geven over hoe onze identiteitsgegevens worden geraadpleegd en gebruikt.