This presentation was delivered in the frame of the XVIII Seminar TIC-ETL Open Learning Recognition on 29 November 2019 at the UNED premises in Madrid, Spain. Find more information about the OEPass project and the Learning Passport please visit https://oepass.eu/outputs/learningpassport/.

1. TheOEPassLearning Passport
asa way to facilitaterecognition
of opencredentialsin Europe
Ildiko Mazar
Knowledge InnovationCentre
OEPass Multiplier Event – 29 November 2019

2. A typical
process model
forOpen
Education
Open
Educational
Resources
Open
Educational
Practices
?
Educational
Credentials
Input Process Output
Open

3. With open and
non-formal
learning the
education
landscape is
getting more
complex
Source: https://blockchain.open.ac.uk

5. Examples of
non-formal
credentials
Non-
Qualification
Credentials
NANO-
DEGREES
MICRO-
MASTERS
CERTIFICATES
ENDORSEMENTS
LICENSES
BADGES

6. Education is a PublicGood
This means
 Open Access to Educational Opportunities
 Use of Open Educational Resources
 Empowerement of Students through Open Educational Practices

7. Education isn’t a PublicGood
Prior
Learning
Recognition
Lack of trust
in online
assessment
Limited
collaboration
Non-
existance of
standards

8. Prior learning recognition
Lack oftrustin online
assessment
Non-existance ofwidely
known andused
standards
Limited collaboration

9. Who decides
about the
reputation of
a credential?
An
accreditation
agency
The (open)
education
provider
The learning
community
(through
endorsements)
The job
market and
employers

10.  Credentials are still not digital
 Limited Access to Underlying Information
 Lack of (Technical) Standards for
Credential Information
 Closed Standards for Security &Verification
 No Aggregation of Credential Data
What’s
wrong with
(digital)
credentials?

11. Credentials are
still not digital

12. LimitedAccess
toUnderlying
Information

13. Lack of
Technical
Standards
leads to
exclusion
Source: Career Arc

14. Closed
Standards for
Security and
Verification

15. No
Aggregation of
Credential
Data

16. Closed
Credentials
 expensive and time consuming to
acquire
 hard to use and share
 hinder Open Education by failing to
evidence flexible learning pathways
in a transparent manner
 can be abused by networks of
intermediaries
 do not inform policy

17. Wehaveall the
piecesfor an
opencredential
system

18. Technical
Standards:
OpenBadges
too open
to be useful

19. National ID
Systems
can replace
companies as
sources of trust
for signing
too complex to use
for the average person

20. AGlobal Platform forSkills alreadyexists…
should one company have
a monopoly on skills data?

21. TheOEPass mission
Create a digital standard format for
documenting open education
credentials based on ECTS
https://oepass.eu

22. The MicroHE mission
Create a model blockchain
infrastructure for storing and
automatically verifying credentials
https://microcredentials.eu/

23. The new Europass DigitalCredentials

24.  User-friendly online form
 Standardised documentation template
 Using controlled vocabulary (over free text)
 Growing list of shared Learning Passports
TheOEPass
Learning
Passport

25.  The new Europass Digital Credentials
 Erasmus+ ECCOE project continuing
research and development
 Extensive sustainability of relevant projects
(e.g. OEPass, MicroHE, e-SLP, OpenVM, etc.)
 Collaboration with key stakeholders and
sister projects
Next Steps

26. THANK YOU FOR
YOUR ATTENTION
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Ildiko Mazar
https://www.slideshare.net/ildikomazar

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