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Edubadges Unveiled: From Design to Application. A Pilot at Utrecht University
Date Friday, Nov 24 Time – RoomChess
Step into the realm of digital credentialing with "Edubadges Unveiled: Navigating Design to Application." Edubadges, the modern frontier of showcasing skills and knowledge, take center stage. They're awarded via the secure and reliable, national SURF platform, which is accessible to all higher education institutions in the Netherlands. Join us to explore their journey from conception to real-world applicability.
- Pilot Insights: Experience a Utrecht University case study that brings edubadges to life.
- Aligning Ambitions: Connect global aspirations with local goals.
- Concrete Showcases: Discover edubadges in action through Utrecht's courses.
- Interactive Exploration: Collaboratively map existing badge successes and potential courses.
- Global Exchange: Anticipate cross-border collaborations for badge sharing.
What Awaits You:
- Practical Piloting: Real-world tactics for edubadge integration.
- Alignment Mastery: Linking badges to broader education and labor market ambitions.
- Concrete Cases: Utrecht's badge-awarded courses as templates.
- Interactive Exchange: Sharing insights, fostering partnerships, and paving the way for international badge collaboration.
Unlock the potential of edubadges, from concept to classroom. Join this immersive workshop to ignite interaction, spark knowledge sharing, and foster partnerships that pave the path for a badge-driven future.
Aleid de Jong
Project Lead & Educational Advisor, Utrecht University (Centre for Academic Teaching and Learning), Netherlands
Aleid de Jong works as a project lead and educational advisor at the Centre for Academic Teaching and Learning (CAT) at Utrecht University (UU), the Netherlands. The CAT supports, facilitates and advises university teachers from all faculties in further improving and innovating their courses. Aleid is passionate about connecting university education to society, to make sure that the university can provide students and other learners with the knowledge and skills they need in a rapidly changing world.
At the CAT Aleid leads the pilot project ‘edubadges’. Edubadges are digital certificates that show you have acquired certain skills or knowledge. Edubadges are awarded digitally via the secure and reliable SURF platform (https://www.surf.nl/en/edubadges-issuing-digital-certificates-to-studen…). In the pilot project edubadges, the university tests the award of edubadges and researches the added value of edubadges according to teachers and learners. As a project lead of the project edubadges, Aleid connects people from different departments within the university to realise the overall project goals: privacy, security, IT, education policy, teaching staff and learners. Furthermore, she makes sure that the project aligns with (inter)national developments with regards to continuous education, flexibilization in education and enhancing the transition to the labour market.
Davitze Könning
Key User Innovation at the Centre for Academic Teaching, Learning of Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Project leader Generative AI and Key-User Innovation at Utrecht University
Jeroen Rou
Projectleader & Educational Advisor, Utrecht University (Centre for Academic Teaching and Learning), Netherlands