Open Badges for Open Education presentation for SwissCore – Swiss Contact Office for Research and Higher Education – by Prof. Dr. Ilona Buchem, Professor for Communication and Media, Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany

1. 25.10.2018 | ILONA BUCHEM | CC BY-SA
Prof. Dr. Ilona Buchem
Professor for Communication and Media
Beuth University of Applied Sciences
Berlin, Germany
OBN www.openbadgenetwork.com
Twitter: @mediendidaktik
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OPEN BADGES FOR
OPEN EDUCATION
Open Badges

2. Digitalisation Strategy
with Open Badges for
• students
• teachers
12 800 students
290 professors
500 lecturers
8 departments
70 study programs
Open Badges since 2012

3. OPEN BADGE NETWORK
visit us
http://www.openbadgenetwork.com

4. Photo: Pexels CC0 License
Why Open Badges?

5. OPEN CLOSED
OPEN EDUCATION
Photo: https://www.futurelearn.com
LEARNING CREDENTIALS

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

7. Buchem, Ilona; van den Broek, Erik & Lloyd, Nigel (2016). Discussion Paper on Open Badges at Policy Levels
(Open Badge Network, Erasmus+). URL: www.openbadgenetwork.com/outputs/policy-levels
The proliferation of credentials has been an
enduring trend of modern times.
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There is high demand for educational
credentialing, e. g. status groups, indicators of
skills and predictors of future work performance,
narrowing information gap (hiring process).
CREDENTIALS IN RESEARCH

8. NEW CREDENTIALING SYSTEMS
Who has the symbolic power to define legitimate attributes of a person?
Can we rust in
the judgement
of the crowd?

9. horizontal differentiation (digital credentials)
maintaining employability
assembling (temporary) expertise
typical for “new” economy
vertical differentiation (traditional credentials)
climbing educational / career stages
stratifying workplace positions
typical for “old” economy”
Certificate
Bachelor
Master
PhD
Digital
Skills
Team
Skills
Leadership
Skills
Critical
Thinking
Problem
Solving
Global
Awareness
HORIZONTAL DIFFERENTIATION
Based on
M. R. Olneck

10. OPEN BADGES ARE DATA-RICH
Photo: http://sportthieme.scene7.com/
(Mozilla)
“Digital credentials enable the data-rich recognition,
communication, and tracking of achievement.” (Credly)

11. OPEN BADGES SPECIFICATION
{
"@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": …
}
Linked Data
png 250 x 250
“90% of an Open Badge is not visible.”Klein, J. (2013)
Open Badges Metadata:
embedded
metadata

12. OPEN BADGES INCLUDE EVIDENCE
Source: https://www.cs2n.org/teachers/badges

13. More information: https://info.badgr.io/
OPEN BADGES CAN BE
COMBINED TO PATHWAYS

14. Photo: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges
Issuer
Earner
OPEN BADGES CAN BE USED
ACROSS SYSTEMS / CONTEXTS

15. Displayers
Consumers
User Hub

16. OPEN BADGING SERVICES

17. Photo: Pexels CC0 License
Recognition of prior learning
Recognition of skills/competencies
Recognition of engagement
OPEN BADGES & EDUCATION

18. Photo: Pexels CC0 License
Online recruiting
Talent scouting
Staff development
OPEN BADGES & EMPLOYMENT

19. OPEN BADGES & SKILLS
Open Badges
Semantic Competency Directory
Competency Frameworks
Find out more: http://www.openbadgenetwork.com/outputs/infrastructure/

20. VALUE OF OPEN BADGES
“A fundamental value of the open badge movement is that
badges will democratize learning by recognizing more diverse
kinds of learning than academic credentials recognize, by not
costing as much in time and money to acquire as
conventional higher education, and by being available in
ways that permit learners at various stages and in various
circumstances of life to become badge earners.”
Michael R. Olneck (2015), Whom Will Digital Badges Empower?, published at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1358/paper1.pdf

21. EARLY ADOPTERS

22. More information: https://www.cityandguilds.com/digital-credentials Ilona Buchem CC BY-SA 4.0
EARLY ADOPTERS

23. Badge Issuer: Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Plattform: Best

24. Open Badges are issued for migrant academics to
recognise 21st century skills and improve employment opportunities
BeuthBonus Program at Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin: http://beuthbonus.beuth-hochschule.de
OPEN BADGES FOR MIGRANTS

25. COMMUNITY WORKING GROUP
ON OPEN BADGES
Community Working Group on
Open Badges (Buchem, Orr, Brunn)
at Hochschulforum Digitalisierung
(HFD) - an independent national
platform for digitalisation
in higher education.
Goal: Scenarios for Open Badges
to support transitions between
education and the world of work.
Context: Germany , embedded in
the European context (e. g.
Europass, ESCO).
More information: https://hochschulforumdigitalisierung.de/en/node/1947

26. ADOPTION OF OPEN BADGES
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52018DC0022&from=EN
The way forward:
“Provide a framework for issuing
digitally-certified qualifications and
validating digitally-acquired skills that are
trusted, multilingual and can be stored in
professional profiles (CVs) such as
Europass.
The framework will be fully aligned with
the European, Qualifications Framework
for Lifelong Learning (EQF) and the
European Classification of Skills,
Competences, Qualifications and
Occupations (ESCO).”

27. E-Mail: buchem@beuth-hochschule.de
Twitter: @mediendidaktik @OpenBadgeNet #OpenBadges
Foto: DigitalMe
Thank you!