A new service developed for humanitarians: not just about learning delivery, but more open ways to learn, recognise skills and marshal capabilities to support and strengthen the sector to improve outcomes for people in need.

1. HPass
Supporting & Strengthening Humanitarians Everywhere
Integrated Learning and Recognition
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2. Volatile ~ Uncertain ~ Complex ~ Ambiguous (and dangerous)
Learning in a VUCA world
sceptrefellows

3. Clear progress markers
 motivating learners, supporting advisors
Flexible learning pathways
 modular, stackable, laddered,
multi-source, remixable
Visual branding
 issuers and earners
Online trust system
 demonstrate skills & capabilities
 backed by issuer
 track learning impact
A digital representation of an accomplishment, interest or affiliation that is visual, available online and
contains metadata including trusted links that help explain the context, meaning, process and result of an
activity.
As an open artefact, the earner can present the badge in different contexts from which it was earned.
Learner-owned microcredential – portable record of learning
What is an Open Badge?

4. Introduced early 2017
v2.0 Open Badge specification
Improved Linked Data / JSON-LD support
• more flexibility, interoperability
Embedded evidence and criteria
More flexible recipient identifiers
• email, telephone number, url, profile id
Third Party Endorsement
• badge issuer, badge class, badge assertion
• new image metadata for accessibility
Internationalization and multi-lingual badges
Improved alignment to external frameworks and objectives
• by issuer, by consumer/3rd party, can be part of endorsement
Security improvements

5. Badges: transparent lenses for your vision of learning
Quality

6. Badges: transparent lenses for your vision of learning

7. Open Up Recognition – assessment, recognition, “valorisation”

8. Overall Challenge for Aid Agencies
How can badges help people show what they
know and can do?
OUR LEARNERS (Humanitarian and beyond, e.g. Development)
• International staff & other stakeholders
• National Staff & local actors (volunteers, local govts, communities)
• Trainers/assessors, military, private sector (int’l & local)
• Public, students..
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9. Across agencies, across careers – centred on the learner
Talent
Pipeline
Recruitment
Induction
Team Building
Performance Management
Talent Management
Experience
Achievements
Professional Development
Career Development
Leadership
Development
SME Specialization
Career Change
Outplacement
Endorsed
Self/Peer or
3rd Party, e.g.:
HPass,
ANSI
Open, Lifewide Learning
MOOCs, Open Ed Resources,
Personal Learning Network,
Coaching/Mentoring,
Communities of
Practice
Demand
Supply
Career
Pathways
Skills
Marketplace
External
Recognition
Local
Learning &
Development
Providers
New
Mission?
New
Role?
HRIS/ERP
Systems
Performance
Management
System
Talent
Management
System
Open
Badges
Humanitarian
Passport
(PLE)
Academic
Recognition?
New
Career?
Some Potential Participants...
Aligned to Standards
& Skills Frameworks

10. Emergent Initiative: MSF’s PLE: “TEMBO”
(OCBA)

11. Piloting an international recognition network
Fed by Learning Portals
Recognition & Skills
Learning Centre
Certification for Individuals
And organisational support for
competency-based approaches
Quality Assessment
Learning Centre
Accreditation for Organisations
International & Local Learning Providers
HPass
Connection hub for
individuals &
organisations

12. Displayers
Connectors
A Platform Partnership
with Finland’s Discendum Oy
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13. Multi-lingual badges

14. Exploring other methods of assessment & recognition
“… all kinds of learning and training outcomes deserve
to be valued and validated, regardless of where and
how they were obtained”unesco.org

15. Assessment beyond courses (RPL/APEL)
Fit for purpose
– Self assessment
– Oral interview
– Written exam
– Demonstration
- Workplace Simulation (e.g. OSCE)
– Portfolio of evidence
slideshare.net/ASPECTConference/prior-learning Image: UN Women (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

16. June Ideation: Mapping the Network

17. June Ideation: Personas & PLE/PLNs

18. June Ideation: Skills

19. Going forward
Pursue pilot projects
• PMD Pro certification
• Gamification MOOC
• L&D collaboration: Training of Trainers
• People Management, Personal Security
• TBA…
Identify additional organisations for more pro bono Open Badge Factory accounts
• IFRC, CCQL… others?
Implement an inclusive visual language for HPI badges
Implement/demonstrate 3rd party endorsement, alignment to skills frameworks
LONGER TERM (2018 +)
Business models for sustainability
Official launch

20. Growing a network to explore transferable recognition
Founding members
• Bioforce Institut
• CHS Alliance
• ELRHA
• Humanitarian Leadership Academy
• Humanitarian Logistics Association
• Pearson
• PHAP
• RedR
• UCL (Nutrition department)
Growing the network…
• Disaster Ready
• Humentum (LINGOS, PM4NGOs)
• IFRC, ICRC
• Médecins Sans Frontières
• Save the Children UK
• World Vision International
• … TBA

21. Early adopters: low risk “sandbox” to explore the options
Pro bono accounts for qualified organisations good to 31 March 2018
(modest cost after, if you choose – ask)
Start to earn badges yourself
Become part of the community.
Contact:
don@learningagents.ca (contractor)
P.Pojerova@Humanitarian.Academy
Join us in our exploration!
Badge issuers first, then badge earners