Open Badge Passport- reinventing the ePortfolio with Open Badges
Eric RousselleDiscendum OyOEB 2015
About Discendum
• Finnish eLearning service developer and provider for businesses, higher education, associations and the public sector
• 6 years of experience with ePortfolios and 3 years with Open Badges
• Mahara-partner and member of the Badge Alliance community
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About Kyvyt.fi ePortfolio service
• 50 000 users• Mostly used by schools and higher education• Personal Learning Environment and Learning
Portfolio• Cloud service; students can keep their
portfolios after graduating
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About Open Badge Factory• A cloud-based issuing platform and
management system for Open Badges• Developed by Discendum in a project founded
by the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (9/2013 – 10/2015)
• 520 user organisations and 64 countries• 32 000 badges issued in 2015
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The main idea behind Open Badges standard
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it’s verified proof of learning build on an open standard
An Open Badge is more than a digital badge
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What did we learn from the Open Badge Factory project?
We shouldn’t forget the badge earners!
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The discussion about Open Badges, the development of the standard and
technical solutions have been dominated by the issuer’s point of view.
The value of a badge from an issuer centric point of view
• Value = reputation of the issuer + quality of the criteria
• Quality often means alignment of the criteria with a competency framework
• This kind of approach is reducing Open Badges to digital certificates and is missing the full value of badges
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The value of an Open Badge is a chain of values!
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What can I do with my badges?
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Conclusion
• The Open Badge Passport is a Personal Learning Environment, where earners can use their badges as building block to set up their micro-portfolios.
• Micro-portfolios build from badges are dynamic, easily adaptable to different needs and searchable
• We believe that the Open Badge Passport can motivate and engage citizens, who are not interested in writing “traditional” formal portfolios.
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