Open Badges and ESCO Alignment - Presentation from the ESCO: Connecting people and jobs conference, Brussels, 9 October 2017: http://www.esco-conference2017.eu/

1. Open Badges and
ESCO Alignment
Prof. Dr. Ilona Buchem
Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin
Twitter: @mediendidaktik
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ESCO: Connecting people and jobs conference
Brussels, 9 October 2017
http://www.esco-conference2017.eu/
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2. 12 800 students, 290 professors
8 departments, 70 BA and MA programs
30% of students have a migration background Ilona Buchem
Professor for Media
and Communication
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3. www.openbadgenetwork.com CC BY-SA 4.0
OPEN BADGE NETWORK
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4. OPEN CLOSED
TRADITIONAL CREDENTIALS
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learning & working recognising skills
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5. OPEN DIGITAL CREDENTIALS
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6. 1998 2001
Open Courseware
2002 2007 2012
Open Content
Open Licence
Open Source
Open Access
Open Resources Open Courses
Open Data
Open Badges
OPEN MOVEMENT
Open Certificates
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7. BADGE THE WORLD
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8. Open Badges are an open web
standard which can be used to
capture and communicate skills
Image: http://sportthieme.scene7.com/
Open Badges form a loose federation of many small digital credentials.
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9. OPEN STANDARD
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10. INTEROPERABILITY
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11. Open Badges 2.0 standard
with new metadata options:
• Evidence (multiple items)
• Internationalisation/
localisation
• Recipient identifiers
New: Criteria & Evidence are
machine-readable components
(linked data)
Source: IMS Global Learning
Consortium 2017
{
"@context": "https://w3id.org/openbadges/v2",
"type": "BadgeClass",
"id": "https://example.org/robotics-badge.json",
"name": "Awesome Robotics Badge",
"description": …,
"image": "https://example.org/robotics-badge.png",
"criteria": …,
"issuer": …,
"alignment": …
}
“90% of the badge system is not visual”, Klein, J. (2013)
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METADATA STANDARD
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12. Open Badges can be issued
not only from
teacher to student,
but also
peer to peer,
student to teacher,
student to university,
teacher to university,
employer to employee,
employee to employer,
or even
me to myself.
Student
Employee
Teacher
University
Employer
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CREDENTIALING PRACTICE
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13. Open Badges can help
learners to connect
diverse
learning contexts,
learning episodes,
learning outcomes,
by assembling
learning evidence
and creating
learning pathways.
#RIDE2016 | UNIVERSITY OF LONDON | 11-04-2016 | CC BY-SA | ILONA BUCHEM
Casilli (2013)
LEARNING PATHWAYS
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14. skillsmemberships
knowledge
Open Badges can help piece together formal and informal learning, work-skills,
individual knowledge and experience, allowing to document and display competencies
and accomplishments in a more holistic manner.
disposition
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SKILL RECOGNITION
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15. Ilona Buchem CC BY-SA 4.0
USE CASE: OPEN BADGES FOR MIGRANTS
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16. BEUTHBONUS BADGES
https://www.openbadgeacademy.com/beuthbonusbadges
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17. EXAMPLE: SOCIAL MEDIA SKILLS BADGE
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18. 83%
(10 out of 12)
Open Badges are useful instruments for
enhancing online reputation in Social
Media and digital job applications
66%
(8 out of 12)
Open Badges recognise my skills in an
appropriate way and are designed in an
appealing way
66%
(8 out of 12)
Open Badges are helpful to make
potential employers pay attention more
to my online profiles
EVALUATION RESULTS
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The results are based on a survey of the BeuthBonus participants.
Here example results of the second cohort with n = 12.
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19. COMPETENCY ALIGNMENT
• Problem 1: An issuer wants to make clear which officially defined
competencies are certified by the Open Badges
• Problem 2: An earner wants to see which competencies have to be
evidenced to earn an Open Badge
• Objective: Assist issuers in defining OB with competency alignment
• Solution Step 1: Improve Open Badge Specification for the
BadgeClass to allow better alignment to competency frameworks
• Solution Step 2: Design a web directory filled by crawling
semantic competency definitions and providing JSON-LD format
search results that can be used in OpenBadge definitions.
Konert, J. (2017). Competency Alignment and Directory:
http://www.openbadgenetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/
OBNO2A3__CompetencyAlignmentAndDirectory__final_v1.3.pdf
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20. BadgeClass Standard v2.0
Konert, J. (2017). Competency Alignment and Directory:
http://www.openbadgenetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/
OBNO2A3__CompetencyAlignmentAndDirectory__final_v1.3.pdf
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21. www.openbadgenetwork.com/
Competency Alignment of Open Badges - J. Konert
6/7/2017
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• ESCO is one of very few competency
frameworks with a web search interface
• For other competency frameworks: only
PDF or list-view are available so far
ESCO as Best Practice:
• Semantic web API for download
• 5.380 competencies with 5.413
relations (v1.0 of March 2017)
• 24 languages targeted
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22. www.openbadgenetwork.com/
Competency Alignment of Open Badges / Konert (2017)
CC BY-SA 4.0
Discussions and Proposal
at Mozilla Festival 2016
Central directory of competencies
• Web REST API
• Web frontend
• Use one vocabulary
• Crawls/find many competency
frameworks
OBN formulated needs for
• Open Badge Specification 2.0
• OBI (Plugins, Semantic Editors)
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23. www.openbadgenetwork.com/
COMPETENCY DIRECTORY
targetUrl:
Competency Alignment of Open Badges / Konert (2017)
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26. Open
Badges
Competency
Directory
Competency
Frameworks
ESCO DIRECTORY & APP
Konert, J. (2017). Competency Alignment and Directory.
Open Badge Network, Output O2-A3
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Solution 1: ESCO-Dir: Community directory for ESCO JSON-LD
defined competency frameworks
Solution 2: ESCO-App: Assisting (web) application (or service) to
create a ESCO JSON-LD representation of competency frameworks

27. COMPETENCY DIRECTORY
Outputs > Output 2 Infrastructure > 02-A3 Competency Directory
Konert, J. (2017). Competency Alignment and Directory.
Open Badge Network, Output O2-A3
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28. OBN-CD on GITHUB
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https://github.com/openbadgenetwork/

29. THANK YOU
Foto: DigitalMe
IMAGE: https://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/4/credentials-reputation-and-the-blockchain
Prof. Ilona Buchem: buchem@beuth-hochschule.de
Prof. Johannes Konert: jkonert@beuth-hochschule.de
Open Badge Network: http://www.openbadgenetwork.com/