The document discusses implementing open badges in online intercultural exchange programs to make learning design and skills acquisition more visible and accountable. It describes using open badges to recognize the transversal skills students gain from participating in large, heterogeneous online intercultural exchange tasks across formal and informal spaces. Implementing open badges can provide soft certification of skills and support learner autonomy by raising the visibility of skills gained through intercultural exchange that may not otherwise be formally recognized.

1. Implementing Open Badges in Online Intercultural Exchange
disruption:
uncomfortable but necessary!
making learning design visible and accountable, collaborative
prioritising meaningful learning
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case study on INTENT EU project report
large scale, intercultural (languages/religions/backgrounds) heterogenous groups
find affinities, work together
provide audience for each other, co-create
crosses formal and informal spaces #warcler #clerwar and many more! sutdents and staff learning together.
tasks on unicollaboration.eu
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DeSeCo report - transversal skills
tasks sit at overlaps:
use tools interactively/act in heterogenous groups/act autonomously
embedded into teaching
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see handout
O'Dowd and Ware: taxonomy of OIE tasks
Cross and Galley's badge typology
use of open badges in mooc settings
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language learning informed by sociological or psychological approaches to understanding acquisition - this activity draws
together learning from both
CALL investigation - CMC what happens when the communication is mediated through tools. (cf telephone conversations)
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not prescriptive but based on practitioner experience, still a work in progress
need to create an ecosystem
wider recognition needed, are these transversal skills yet recognised by employers?
helps to focus attention on task design - dangers of misplacement, investigated through mixed methods approach, importance of
collaboration and student leadership
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soft certification, micro-credentials, raises visibility of skills acquisition which is not formally recognised
learner centric, supports autonomy
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