Atish Gonsalves, Global Learning & Innovation Director, from Humanitarian Leadership Academy and Don Presant, President & Executive Producer, from Learning Agents will tell about the Humanitarian Passport Initiative and how digital Open Badges are being used across the humanitarian sector. Organisations from this sector can issue Open Badges for their interest groups through online learning platform Kaya, through other completed training or through passing formal professional development assessments.

1. Humanitarian
Passport
Initiative and
Open Badges
Atish Gonsalves
Global Learning & Innovation Director
@atishgonsalves
Don Presant
President & Executive Producer,
Learning Agents
@donpresant

2. Our mission is to enable people
around the world to prepare for and
respond to crises in their own
countries
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3. Learning approach:
Supporting the needs of individuals,
organizations and communities by
facilitating access to innovative learning
resources, platforms and tools that can
enable locally relevant capacity-sharing and
mutual learning

4. How We Work
Academy Centres (live)
• Kenya
• Philippines
• Middle East
• Bangladesh
Collaboration
Centres
• Learning
• HPI - Recognition
• HPI - Quality
Kaya digital platform
Partners

5. Who are we trying to
reach

6. How do we democratise access
to learning

7. • A global portal of humanitarian learning – KayaConnect.Org
• The number of Kaya users is rapidly increasing - currently over 33,000 users, from
over 200 countries
• The breadth of learning content on Kaya is expanding –currently over 270 courses
that respond to humanitarian need
Kaya – A Learning Marketplace

8. Promote existing badges & certification
opportunities for learners
How do we democratise recognition?
Co-develop and invest in new certification
programmes including:
• Required learning
• Body of knowledge
• Self-assessment
• Certification

9. Recognition – Initial activities
Understanding the humanitarian
ecosystem
2017
Applying humanitarian principles in
practice
2017
Legal frameworks for humanitarian
action
2017
MEAL 2018
Cash Transfers Programming 2018
Needs Assessment 2018
The Collaboration Centre for Recognition of
Skills, Experience, and Learning in
Humanitarian Action (PHAP, CHS Alliance
and Academy) is developing professional
certifications. The PHAP Credentialing
Program aims to provide a set of credentials
developed in accordance with ISO standards.
The Humanitarian Passport Initiative is focusing on
the recognition of individual skills, learning and
experience through a Humanitarian Open Badge
Passport platform, aligned to competency frameworks
and quality standards.

10. Open Badges
Humanitarian
Pilot
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11. Volatile ~ Uncertain ~ Complex ~ Ambiguous (& dangerous)
Learning in a VUCA world
sceptrefellows

12. Escaping from “seat time”
Competency Based Learning
hbr.org
“… high-quality learning pathways
that are affordable, scalable, and
tailored to a wide variety of current
and emergent industries, based on
competencies, not courses.”
ingegno.in

13. 70:20:10 L-i-f-e-w-i-d-e learning
deakinprime.com / wikipedia.org

14. Personal Learning Environments / Networks
(PLE/PLN)
Alec Couros colleendemma.blogspot.ca

15. “Paving professional pathways”
Open Badges as an enabler

16. 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?

17. Some uses of badges (can be combined)
transformingassessment.com/TA_webinar_5_mar_2014_Simon_Cross.pdf
Recognize status
Reputation
Group affiliation
Keep artefacts
Souvenirs of
learning experiences
Assess &
recognize learning
Formal / non-formal
/ informal
Fill recognition gaps
Motivate
learning
Feedback,
mastery, levels
Set goals,
track progress
Personal learning
pathways

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

19. Badges: transparent lenses for your vision of
learning

20. Open Badges: A mosaic of lifelong, lifewide learning
LOW
STAKES
HIGH
STAKES
Volunteer
Experience
Talent
Pipeline
MOOCs
Co-Curricular
Record
Workshops
Admission
to
Post Grad
Schools
Job Hire
Conferences
Formal
Recognition
of Prior
Learning
Career
Transition
Communities
of
Practice
Memberships,
Affiliations
CPD
Certification
“Light
Touch”
Credentials
E-learning
Courses
Awards,
Achievements
Continuing
Education
Employee
Development
… diverse signals of capability and potential

21. Membership, awards, accreditation, certification
thelpi.org/digital-badges/

22. Balancing quality and openness
Open Badges for Humanitarians

23. Tracking humanitarian logistics learning
Oxfam

24. DisasterReady.org
openbadgefactory.com/references

25. Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection
(PHAP)
phap.org/digital-badges
Certification
Membership
“your proof of membership or certification”

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

27. HPI: incubating an international recognition network
Fed by Learning Portals
Collaboration Centre for
Recognition of Humanitarian
Skills, Learning & Experience
(CH)
Certification for Individuals
And organisational support for
competency-based approaches
Collaboration Centre for
Quality Learning
in Humanitarian Action
(FR)
Accreditation for Organisations
International & Local
Learning Providers
Humanitarian
Passport
Connection hub for
individuals &
organisations

28. 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)
• IFRC, ICRC
• Médecins Sans Frontières
• Save the Children UK
• World Vision International
• Sphere
• … TBA

29. Displayers
Connectors
A Platform Partnership
with Finland’s Discendum Oy
Humanitarian Passport

30. 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.:
HPI, CCQL,
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

31. Assessment Strategies

32. Course or program certificates

33. Psychometric Assessment, Certification: PHAP Program
phap.org/credentialing-program

34. 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

35. UNESCO
Guidelines for Recognition, Validation and Assessment (RVA)
Equity and inclusiveness
The right to access and engage in any form of learning and have learning outcomes made visible and valued.
Equal value of formal, non-formal and informal learning
Competences from non-formal and informal learning on par with those obtained formally
Centrality of individuals
Respect and reflect individuals´ needs, and their participation should be voluntary
Improve the flexibility and openness of formal education and training
Diverse forms of learning, taking learners’ needs and experiences into account
Quality assurance
Relevant, reliable, fair and transparent
Stakeholder partnerships
Shared responsibility from design through implementation and evaluation
Image: UN Women (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

36. Assessment methods for RPL/APEL
Linked to the 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)

37. Going forward
Pursue pilot projects
• PMD Pro certification
• Kaya: People Management, Humanitarian Essentials
• Personal Security
• L&D collaboration: Training of Trainers
• HLA Gamification MOOC
• Institut Bioforce
• MSF-OCBA Tembo
Identify additional organisations for more pro bono Open Badge Factory accounts
• IFRC, CCQL, IRC, … others?
Implement an inclusive visual language for HPI badges
Implement/demonstrate 3rd party endorsement, alignment to skills frameworks
LONGER TERM (2018 +)
Sustainability business models

38. Dissemination: e.g. ePIC 2017, Open Recognition Day
openepic.eu

39. 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

40. Thank you