Open badges provide a way for individuals to earn digital credentials and display skills and experiences online. Badges can be created and stored using platforms like Open Badge Factory or displayed on profiles using Open Badge Passport. Individuals can earn badges for activities like participating in virtual exchange programs. While technology enables new forms of recognition, sustainable educational futures rely more on addressing underlying injustices and individualization within education.

1. The weird world of open
badges
Teresa MacKinnon
@warwicklanguage

2. What is an open badge?
More here: https://badge.wiki/wiki/What_Are_Open_Badges%3F

3. Creation and curation
Create badges:
Happens in a platform such as Open
Badge Factory (European, GDPR
compliant)
Account levels from free to Pro offer
varied functions/limits.
Reports allow feedback to inform
strategy
Curate your badges:
Individuals create a free account on
Open Badge Passport to collect and
curate their recognition
Easy creation of online pages to
display and show skills and
experiences
Mobile app makes badge use really
quick and easy

4. Earn a badge now!

5. Erasmus Plus Virtual Exchange

6. Future thoughts...
“If we are concerned to create educational practices that work
towards the common good and towards sustainable futures, then
our first concern must be to attend to the causes of existing
injustices, individualisation and unsustainability and to proceed
from there. While digital technology can be an adjunct to this wider
work, digital technology alone is not capable of creating
sustainable educational futures.”
(Facer & Selwyn 2021)

7. Reporting

8. Community supporting open learning and recognition

9. Check out Open Recognition Alliance:

10. Badge publications:
My ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1701-3727
Recognising participation in virtual exchange: open badges and the Clavier contribution.
in Designing and Implementing Virtual Exchange: a Collection of Case Studies. published
by Research-Publishing.net https://research-
publishing.net/book?10.14705/rpnet.2020.45.9782490057726
Innovating Language Pedagogy Report https://research-
publishing.net/manuscript?10.14705/rpnet.2021.50.1236