Workshop on addressing diversity with Open Badges at the EDEN Conference 2017 "Diversity Matters!" #EDEN17 in Jönköping, Sweden

1. Addressing Diversity
with Open Badges
Ilona Buchem & Johannes Konert
Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin
@mediendidaktik & @jkwebtec
Open Badge Network Erasmus+ strategic Partnership: www.openbadgenetwork.com/
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26th EDEN Annual Conference, 14 June 2017, 11.30 - 13.00 CET

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Focus on Diversity and Open Badges:
Design a scenario to address diversity with Open
Badges. Choose one of these three diversity cases:
(A) Diversity of learners’ qualities which can be recognised with Open Badges, such as (i)
diverse expertise areas, (ii) diverse skills, (iii) diverse achievements;
(B) Diversity of l/earners of Open Badges and recognition of their skills, e.g. (i) migrants/
refugees, (ii) girls/women in tech/STEM, (iii) elderly citizens/workers;
(C) Diversity of learning pathways and how can Open Badges help signal them, e.g. (i)
learning pathways for increasing the depth of expertise, (ii) learning pathways for
collaborating across disciplines, (iii) learning pathways for career/education changers.
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PARTS 1 - 2
INTRODUCTION
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4. 12 500 students
8 departments, 70 BA & MA programs
Virtual Universities Association
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Ilona Buchem
professor for
media and communication
Johannes Konert
professor for
web engineering
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5. Output 1: Framework & Leadership
Output 2: Infrastructure
Output 3: OB for Individuals & Organisations
Output 4: OB in Territories
Output 5: Establishing OB at Policy Levels
Output 6: European Open Badge Network
Output 7: Research, Evaluation and Quality
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6. CLOSED
“After all, traditional college diplomas look
elegant when hung on the wall, but they
contain very little detail about what the
recipient learned.” (Young, 2012)
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OPEN
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7. “The Web has blown documents apart. (…)
What once was literally a tightly bound
entity has been ripped into pieces and
thrown into the air.
-Weinberger (2003)
Small Pieces Loosely Joined. The unified theory of the Web.
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DIGITAL CREDENTIALS
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8. REINVENTING CREDENTIALS
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Open Badges form a loose federation of many small digital credentials
which represent skills, competencies, values, achievements,
memberships and other qualities of the earner.
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9. DIVERSITY & OPEN BADGES
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DIVERSITY
LEARNERS QUALITIES CONTEXTS SYSTEMS DATA
skills
knowledge
competencies
…
formal
informal
non-formal
…
students
professionals
veterans
…
issuers
displayers
user hubs
…
issuer
criteria
endorsement
…
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10. USING OPEN BADGES
Share in social
networks
Add to job
application Collect in
ePortfolio
Publish on a
blog / website
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11. OPEN BADGES INFRASTRUCTURE
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12. Open Badge Infrastructure (OBI)
(Illustration by Erik Knutson, Concentric Sky, licensed CC-BY)
Assertion
BadgeClass
Profile
Profile (e.g. for issuers), BadgeClass (defining credentials) and
Assertion (for earned Badges) are the core elements of OBI.
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13. OPEN BADGES METADATA
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Image: DigitalMe
“90% of the badge system is not visual”
Klein, J. (2013)
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Open Badges Technical Specification defines the metadata required for interoperability

14. OPEN BADGES METADATA
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Open Badges 2.0 with
new metadata options:
• Evidence (multiple items)
• Criteria
• Image
• Internationalisation/
localisation (language tag)
• Recipient identifiers (email,
URL, phone)
Now: Criteria & Evidence are machine-
readable components (linked data)
Source: IMS Global Learning Consortium 2017
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{
"@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": …
}
BadgeClass

15. DIVERSITY OF SKILLS
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https://www.buzzmath.com/badges#process-knowledge
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http://www.digitalme.co.uk/projects/s2r
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DIVERSITY OF LEARNERS

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https://www.openbadgeacademy.com/beuthbonusbadges
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DIVERSITY OF LEARNERS

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https://concentricsky.com/articles/detail/building-cross-institutional-learning-pathways-with-badgr
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DIVERSITY OF PATHWAYS

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https://opensource.com/article/17/3/making-credentials-more-transparent
DIVERSITY OF PATHWAYS

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PART 3
DIVERSITY SCENARIOS
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Small group activity (40 minutes)
Task: Design a scenario to address diversity with Open Badges.
Choose one of these three “diversity cases”:
A. Diversity of l/earners’ qualities which can be recognised
with Open Badges, such as (i) diverse expertise areas, (ii)
diverse skills, (iii) diverse achievements;
B. Diversity of l/earners of Open Badges and recognition of
their skills, e.g. (i) migrants/refugees, (ii) girls/women in
tech/STEM, (iii) elderly citizens/workers;
C. Diversity of learning pathways and how can Open Badges
help signal them, e.g. (i) learning pathways for increasing the
depth of expertise, (ii) learning pathways for collaborating
across disciplines, (iii) learning pathways for career/education
changers.
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SCENARIO TEMPLATE
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PARTS 4 -5
PRESENTATIONS
+ DISCUSSION
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Thank you! @OpenBadgeNet
#OpenBadges
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