Pre-Conference Workshop FD4
Open Badges for Individuals and Organisations. An Interactive Case Study
Date Wednesday, Dec 2 Time – RoomKöpenick III Price: free of charge Status: fully booked
Workshop leader
Ilona Buchem
Visiting Professor of Digital Media & Diversity, Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin, Germany
Ilona Buchem (PhD) is Professor for Media and Communication at Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. She graduated with a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw (Poland), Concordia University (WI, USA) and University Duisburg-Essen (Germany). She studied Educational Sciences at Humboldt University in Berlin and obtained her PhD degree in Business Education in 2009. Her research and teaching focus on the intersections of digital media and society, with special focus on emerging technologies such as social, mobile, wearable and smart technologies. Her research interests include Digital Collaboration, Digital Diversity, Digital Learning and Digital Leadership. Ilona Buchem has led a number of R&D projects dedicated to emerging digital media for learning and digital strategies in organisations. She is the Chair of the Special Interest Group on Wearable Technology Enhanced Learning at the European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning (EATEL), the founder of the Europortfolio German Chapter and a member of several organisations related to distance education and technology-enhanced learning, including the Association of Media in Science (GMW) and the European Distance Education Network (EDEN). She has initiated and has been actively involved in a number of national and international projects both as a project coordinator and a researcher, including Mediencommunity 2.0, iCollaborate, Networked Identities, Future Social Learning Networks (FSLN), Credit Points (BMBF, BMAS, BA), BeuthBonus (BMBF, BMAS, BA, ESF), fMOOC (BMBF), Digital Future (Stifterverband) and Open Badge Network (Erasmus+).
Links
http://www.beuth-hochschule.de/impressum
Speaker
Michal Nowakowski
Institute of Sustainible Technologies - National Research Institute, Poland
Michał Nowakowski (MA) is a researcher assistant at the Department of Vocational Education Research of The Institute for Sustainable Technologies – National Research Institute. He graduated with a Masters degree in Law at the University of Wrocław (Poland) and La Coruna Universyty (Spain).
He specializes in vocational education and training, professional qualification standards, European Qualification Framework, project management (PRINCE2, Practitioner Certificate), mechanisms and structures of technology transfer. His research interests include the development of professional qualification standards, recognition of qualifications, validation of professional competences, development of modular curricula.
He has been involved in a number of national and international projects, including the system project of the Polish Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs: Development of the standards of vocational competences required by employers: 2012-2013, Strategic Programme Innovative Systems of Technical Support for Sustainable Development of Economy:2011-2013, Mapping of competencies as a new tool in knowledge management in a company: 2008-2010, Badge Europe: 2014-2017. Author or co-author monographs and scientific articles, studies and analysis.
Links
http://www.itee.radom.pl/lang/index.php
Content
This interactive session will focus on Open Badges for individuals and organisations as part of the European project “Badge Europe”, the strategic partnership founded under the Erasmus+ program.
The key aims of the workshop are to:
- introduce Badge Europe initiative by showing the guiding values, aims and output it addresses i.e.: enhancing employment opportunities, enabling wide recognition of on-demand workplace skills, creating the conditions for the recognition of formal and informal learning achievements, familiarise the participants with the Open Badge concept based on a new technological standard of describing and documenting skills and achievements,
- present real life examples of Open Badges including existing and possible applications with a focus on the use case of effective team building in an organisation,
- provide practical insights into the design and practical use of Open Badges from the perspective of individuals and organisations through an interactive, task-based workshop.
Open Badges appear to be a great and flexible tool for employees to capture skills and achievements. At the same time, they can be valuable for organisations. The main focus of the workshop is to demonstrate a use case of Open Badges for team-building to promote effective leadership. Workshop participants will be presented with a case study about a project that an organisation needs to accomplish. Participants will take the role of employees, who want to be selected for a project, and the role of HR leaders, who have to select best staff.
- In the first step, a group of participants will design a badge scheme which maps out competencies, behaviours and values required for a project/organisation as a whole, also exploring how badges can help create a positive working culture, as well as identify people with the right skills for a project. The group discusses the value of badges for both the organisation and the individual to ensure these are both aligned.
- In the second step, participants will create badges using Open Badge Factory and then explore the practical process of earning badges. Participants identify possible skills gaps from the HR perspective.
- In the third step, badges created by participants will be transferred to Open Badge Passport to create a competence map. This will show how social interaction in a community of badge earners and customers can grow the “organic” value of badges. The competence map will enhance visibility of the organisational HR potential and allow leaders to assess skills and skill gaps.
- In the final step, participants will discuss benefits and challenges of Open Badges both from the perspective of individuals and organisations. This reflection part offers a chance to explore whether the value proposition of badges as discussed earlier has been delivered. The results are used as inputs for discussion papers in Badge Europe project.
Agenda
| 09.00 – 10.30 | Introduction of participants and the workshop |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Introduction of Open Badges and the Badge Europe project |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Examples from practice – using Open Badges in education and beyond |
| 11.30 – 12.00 | Introduction to the workshop aims and steps |
| 12.00 – 13.00 | Lunch break |
| 13.00 – 14.00 | Workshop step 1 – defining competencies |
| 14.00 – 15.00 | Workshop step 2 – designing digital badges |
| 14.30 – 15.00 | Workshop step 3 – developing a competence map |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Coffee break |
| 15.30 – 16.30 | Discussion on the value of open badges for individuals and organizations |
Target audience
educational experts, teachers, researchers, learners, students, software developers, HR specialists
Prerequisite knowledge
none
Outcomes
- insights into the design and practice of open badges based on case studies from real life
- hands-on experience in using tools and services to design and issue open badges
- issues about the value of open badges to inform the outputs of the Badge Europe project
- a network of persons and organisations interested connected to the Badge Europe project
- building international links to the Open Badges Community