The document outlines 10 challenges for the ePortfolio community to address issues around interoperability and adoption of ePortfolios. The challenges include developing: 1) a universal ePortfolio repository to provide a unified view of all digital assets, 2) universal competency identifiers to share competency definitions across systems, and 3) ePortfolio social networking capabilities to share assets and knowledge across communities. Addressing these challenges would help create more open and trusted ePortfolio platforms and services.

1. Open PassportEUROPORTFOLIO
The projects Europortfolio and Badge Europe are
funded with the support of the European Commission
1 July 2015
Badge Alliance community call
Reinventing ePortfolioSTrust, the Revolution!

2. History

3. 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015
10ePortfolioChallenges
Trust
OpenTrustBox

4. Building a Trust Infrastructure2008-2011

5. For the 7th ePortfolio conference, and in order to give directions to our work towards our 2010 goal (ePortfolio for all), EIfEL has decided to address a number
of challenges to the ePortfolio community and beyond —many of the problems the ePortfolio community faces today will not be resolved if they are not
addressed beyond the ePortfolio silo. The goal of these challenges is to move beyond the current state of ePortfolio development, in particular in the field of
interoperability as interoperability is not just a technical issue, but a means to enable new practices and the emergence of truly lifelong and life wide
ePortfolios.
Our main objective is to create the conditions for the emergence of
MultiPortfolio organisations (one organisation can interact with many different
ePortfolio platforms) and MultiOrganisation ePortfolios (have one ePortfolio to
interact with many different institutions with their own platform).
1. Universal ePortfolio Repository —a unified view of all my assets
Context: Today, the digital assets used to create an ePortfolio can be hosted in
many different systems managed by many different organisations.
Issue: How can we provide a unified view of all the assets belonging to one
person, so she/he can seamlessly create ePortfolios without having to navigate
through multiple sites? How can I reunite my digital identity?
Direction: Identity and access management (IAM) technologies, such as
federation of identities and services need to be fully explored by the ePortfolio
community.
NB: a universal repository is not equivalent to a unique repository; it can be
universal while being distributed over a number of loosely connected and
heterogeneous systems.
2. Universal Competency Identifiers —share competency definitions
across systems
Context: A number of ePortfolio platforms, and other applications in the field of
education, employment, accreditation and human resource use competency
frameworks. Today, the dominant delivery format of competency frameworks is a
PDF file, forcing each system to import or recreate them from scratch.
Issue: How can we share competency definitions across systems and
applications? How can we elicit emerging competencies through interactive
technologies?
Direction: The creation of a competency wiki providing shared, distributed,
multilingual URIs (Unique Resource Identifiers) to competency definitions. The
solution to unique resource identifiers for competency definition has already
been discussed by Simon Grant (Representing frameworks of skill and
competence for interoperability). We have the technology required, what is
missing is the political impetus and commitment.
3. ePortfolio social —share assets, knowledge and processes across
communities
Context: The idea of using social computing for ePortfolios is growing and a
number of platforms have integrated such features. Nevertheless, the current
implementation of social networking technology is mainly limited to connecting
individuals as silos of information.
Issue: Let’s imagine a group of 100 people belonging to the same community
(company, school, etc.) among which 10 are writing their own CV. Can we
design a technology that will make it possible that at the end of the process,
each of the 100 people will have (part of) their own CV written? How can we
automatically generate and updated ePortfolios and CVs through social
interaction?
Direction: Imagine that each time a person writes an elementary entry into their
CV describing a professional experience, they have to name the people that
shared the same experience; then for each person named, the entry is added to
their ‘CV’, with the ability to edit it and share it back with the original author or
create their own edited version of the entry. This way, each CV would be thread
weaving a collective story. For the reader, being able to judge how an individual
CV is connected to other stories, could even be an indicator of trustworthiness.
The same reasoning could of course apply to ePortfolios.
4. ePortfolio semantic editors —make sense of what I write, connect,
etc.
Context: In 2003, during the first international ePortfolio conference in Poitiers,
Christopher Tan presented Knowledge Community, a platform scaffolding
learners reflection through semantic annotation, i.e. identifying key words and
labelling them with semantic value, e.g. evidence, theory, example, etc. Since
then, not a single editor of ePortfolio tools has included any form of semantic
annotation.
Issue: We need ePortfolio editors that scaffold reflective thinking, not just enrich
text with bolds, italics and ‘pink on purple’ effects. We need proper, simple
semantic editors, as semantic annotation is a way to structure reflection,
connect ideas, facts and people.
Direction: RDFa editors provide the blueprint for ePortfolio editors that fully
support the components of a reflective process. At minima, be able to tag parts
of texts/images, not just the whole document.
5. ePortfolio Readers —read any ePortfolio through consistent and
multiple views
Context: There are a number of ePortfolio platforms, each one with their own
user interfaces and some people create ePortfolios without using any dedicated
ePortfolio platform (e.g. content management system). And people want to be
free to express their identity without being kept in the straightjacket of
predefined templates.
Issue: How can we leave total freedom to ePortfolio author’s creativity, while
providing readers with their own view through a consistent navigational
interface, e.g. evidence on the left, competency framework on the right, etc.?
Direction: We might have to define different readers, depending on the process
being involved, so the same ePortfolio could have different views generated by
different tools. Such tools could be used by ePortfolio authors as tools to verify
that their ePortfolio is properly structured and contains all the relevant semantic
information.
6. Open & Trusted Service Architecture
Context: Today each ePortfolio platform provides a limited number of services
and adding new services require the development of idiosyncratic plug-ins,
when this possibility is offered.
Issue: How can we provide ePortfolio owners with an unlimited number of
services without forcing service providers to develop multiple plug-ins for
multiple applications? How can we trust the usage made by services of our
personal data?
Direction: This is connected to the idea of Universal Repository, exploited and
enriched by service providers. Schools, universities, employers, professional
bodies etc. need to provide conversational systems through trusted web
services —a technology currently under development by different initiatives,
such as TAS3.
7. ePortfolio based performance support system —make the ePortfolio
part of my work
Context: One of the current problems with ePortfolio adoption at the workplace
is the fact that ePortfolios can be seen as something either nice to have or
adding to the regular work. Moreover, the current level of integration of
ePortfolios with other information systems is still low.
Issue: How can we make ePortfolio construction part of everyday activities?
How can we demonstrate ePortfolio benefits through business benefits?
Direction: Use ePortfolio technology and methods to develop next generation
electronic performance support systems, integrate reflection as part of routine
work processes, so the ePortfolio is built through naturally occurring business
activities.
8. ePortfolio discovery mechanism —find people, competencies,
resources
Context: While there are a number of methods for learning resources discovery
(c.f. the learning resources exchange (LRE) repository of European Schoolnet)
there are not yet universal mechanism to discover ePortfolios on the Internet,
each individual relying on ad-hoc services.
Issue: How can we easily find an ePortfolio or a resource contained in an
ePortfolio?
Direction: OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative's Protocol for Metadata
Harvesting) is a possible method to create large indexes of ePortfolios per
organisation, sector or even territory. Other methods could be the publication of
ePortfolios in trusted parties' indexes.
9. URIs as tags
Context: Tag is a popular form to connect things together. within an ePortfolio.
Unfortunately the meaning of tags is context dependent, and different tags can
share the same meaning.
Issue: How can we create tags that are not context dependent?
Direction: make tags RDF triplets: name (what is displayed as ‘tag’); URI to
definition (an hidden hypertext link); link type (is, is part of, etc.). NB: this is an
extension of challenge #2. Two tags are close if they share the same URI and
identical if they are identical triplets.
10. Universal Metadata
Context: ePortfolio construction is about connecting data together. Metadata
are not just ‘comments’ about data, but links between all the data sharing the
same metadata. If data are assimilated to neurones, metadata can be seen
as.the synapses connecting neurones together..
Issue: How can we enrich distributed data with ‘personal/social metadata
repositories
Direction: keep metadata repositories apart from data, on the model of social
bookmarking.
e P o r t f o l i o c h a l l e n g e s
2009
10ePortfolioChallenges
1. Universal ePortfolio Repository
2. Universal Competency Identifiers
3. ePortfolio social
4. ePortfolio semantic editors
5. ePortfolio Readers
6. Open &Trusted Service Architecture
7. ePortfolio based performance support system
8. ePortfolio discovery mechanism
9. URIs as tags
10. Universal Metadata
Challenging ePortfolio technology
http://www.learningfutures.eu/ref/the-10-eportfolio-challenges/

6. OpenTrustBox
Can you imagine your life if you had to use different applications to edit,
send and receive emails?Yet, it is what is happening with Open Badges.This
is even embedded in 'roles': the badge issuer, issues badges, the badge
collector, collects badges.While this functional division made sense in the
early developments of the Open Badge Infrastructure, this might soon
become an impediment to further innovative developments and adoption...
The solution: the integration of OB services into Open Trust Box (OTB)!!
If Open Badges are awesome, then the Open Trust Box (OTB) should be
wondrous! And it should be relatively easy to build: simply integrate within
the same 'box' a badge issuer, a badge (back)pack, a badge editor and a
badge displayer.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/openbadges/KcbGltKGX2o/-iBwP2KMwggJ
2013 Reviewing Open Badge technology

7. 2014 A conversation with Eric Rousselle

8. An API of One’s Own
Building trust networks with Open Badges
Nate Otto, Concentric Sky
Serge Ravet, Badge Europe! Europortfolio
November 19-21, 2014 ::Washington, DC
2014 A conversation with Nate Otto

9. 10 ePortfolio Challenges
Open Trust Box
conversations with
Eric Rousselle &
Nate Otto
2015

10. 2015

11. 2015
The "Designing Principles for a Trusted Environment" at SXSWedu seeks to
have a discussion on trust and create a deeper understanding of how to
operationalize trusted learning environments among various stakeholders,
including: government, parents, educators, school & district leaders, students,
foundations, nonprofits, and businesses. [...]
http://csreports.aspeninstitute.org/Task-Force-on-Learning-and-the-Internet/2014/events/details/0001/Task-Force-SXSW

12. http://www.learningfutures.eu/2015/04/openbadges-the-deleterious-effects-of-mistaking-security-for-trust-aspentrust-dmltrust/
2015

13. The Open Badge Passport adopts the radical position to
treat Open Badges as "trust statements" and
explore how such trust statements can be used to:
1. Create bottom-up trust networks
2. Generate new types of services exploiting the
metadata contained in large collections of Open Badges

14. The Power
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15. A teenager had spent many months in a young peoples psychiatric hospital.
When he was about to leave a therapist asked him what was the most
significant thing which helped him in his recovery. He responded that it was
the moment when in and art group the therapist asked him to fetch some art
paper from a cupboard in another part of the building.The therapist handed
him the keys to the cupboard which were on a key ring with many other keys
to the rooms in the building.
They young man said he felt so good, not just because he had been chosen to
do the small job when his esteem was very low but because the therapist had
not hesitated but just handed him the keys. He knew he could have used
those keys to get up to all sorts of mischief but he felt trust to act responsibly.
Julie Lunt <julie at newpaths.eu>

16. "The best way to find out if
you can trust somebody is
to trust them."
Ernest Hemingway

17. The Deleterious Effects of
Mistaking Security for Trust
http://www.learningfutures.eu/2015/04/openbadges-the-deleterious-effects-of-mistaking-security-for-trust-aspentrust-dmltrust/

18. Trust vs Security

19. Trust vs Security

20. Trust vs Security

21. Trust and security work in
reverse proportions
The more trust, the less extrinsic security measures
are required, the more extrinsic security measures are
taken, the less trustworthy the system becomes

22. Is it the world
we want to live in?

23. What does it mean
for Open Badges?

24. Open Badges as trust building vs
Open Badges as control
The potential
The reality?

25. Control
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27. Asymmetry
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28. Ignoring the voice of learners!

29. At the recent Learning Pathways summit, two students
gave some powerful feedback:“We don’t need a silly
badge to tell us we learned something.We want to learn
because we are interested, not because of some fake
reward.” If a student told me “A Badge won’t make me
care!” I would respond “Excellent!” A badge should not
make you care; if it does, you might be caring about the
wrong thing.The student’s response gets to the heart of
the issue. If the ultimate goal of education is to create
the self-driven learner, then the artificial motivation of
badges is potentially problematic.
Timothy Freeman Cook

30. No Badge please
Don't spoil
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my pleasure

31. Trust Building
Open Badges as

34. Trust!
Issuer Earner

36. Chains of trust

38. the revolution
Trust
Open Badges for all!

39. A dream
comes
true!for all!

41. https://openbadgepassport.com/

42. Roadmap
• Currently: proof of concept
• End 08/2015: migration to beta version
• From 10/2015: developments and pilot programmes

43. Openbadgepassport.org**
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community,
site
managed
by
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animated
by
ADPIOS*
Github,
etc.
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Passport
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* initially, during DML funding
** Currently openpassport.me

44. Vision
Open Badges for all!

45. Yesterday Today
everything bearing a badge can be endorsed
self-issued badges
Web
services

46. Repository
Apps
API
Kernel
BadgeIssuing
Career
Management
Social
Networking
Learning
Management
FindPeers
Learning
Resources
Event
Management
Self
Employment
Discovery
Services
Badge
Verification
App Store
...
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47. Trust
BadgeIssuing
Career
Management
Social
Networking
Learning
Management
FindPeers
Learning
Resources
Event
Management
Self
Employment
Discovery
Services
Badge
Verification
App Store
...
S e r v i c e s

48. From collectors to connectors
Trust networks

49. People sharing the same badge are
connected
A great property totally ignored by the OBI!

50. Everyone will have the right to issue
badges (the right to trust!)
A legitimate right totally ignored by the OBI!

51. Self-issued badges Endorsement badges
In control of our identities
Everyone will have the right to
self-issue badges

52. The power of discovery
From search engines to
discovery engines

53. Metadata
harvested in
Open PassportsReturn numbers
of matching
profiles Notification of
search
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connect (or not)
anynomously to
query
Query
Push
information to
connected
profiles

54. Find !Me

55. We will be able to exploit the
metadata contained in badges

56. Nate's PassportAbout me Activity wall
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57. Created
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58. New Pledged
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Events
Achievements
Competencies
Endorsements
Pages
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60. Types
Badges
Experience (xAPI)
Images
Texts
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61. Send Message to ePIC 2015 Delegates
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62. change?
What will

63. Power shift

66. From Locked-in
to Linked-out

67. Serge Ravet
ADPIOS, Open Passport, Badge Europe, EUROPORTFOLIO
@Szerge, learningfutures.eu
openpassport.me, openbadges.eu europortfolio.org, iosf.org
Merci! The Revolution!
Trust,