Open Badge Passport, reinventing the ePorfolio with Open Badges
1. Open Badge Passport
- reinventing the ePortfolio with Open Badges
Eric Rousselle
Discendum Oy
OEB 2015
2. About Discendum
• Finnish eLearning service developer and
provider for businesses, higher education,
associations and the public sector
• 6 years of experience with ePortfolios and 3
years with Open Badges
• Mahara-partner and member of the Badge
Alliance community
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3. About Kyvyt.fi ePortfolio service
• 50 000 users
• Mostly used by schools and higher education
• Personal Learning Environment and Learning
Portfolio
• Cloud service; students can keep their
portfolios after graduating
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4. About Open Badge Factory
• A cloud-based issuing platform and
management system for Open Badges
• Developed by Discendum in a project founded
by the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology
and Innovation (9/2013 – 10/2015)
• 520 user organisations and 64 countries
• 32 000 badges issued in 2015
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5. The main idea behind Open Badges standard
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11. The value of a badge from an issuer
centric point of view
• Value = reputation of the issuer + quality of
the criteria
• Quality often means alignment of the criteria
with a competency framework
• This kind of approach is reducing Open Badges
to digital certificates and is missing the full
value of badges
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12. The value of an Open Badge
is a chain of values!
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13. What can I do with my badges?
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21. Conclusion
• The Open Badge Passport is a Personal Learning
Environment, where earners can use their badges
as building block to set up their micro-portfolios.
• Micro-portfolios build from badges are dynamic,
easily adaptable to different needs and
searchable
• We believe that the Open Badge Passport can
motivate and engage citizens, who are not
interested in writing “traditional” formal
portfolios.
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