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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

OEB speaker Ilona Buchem

Ilona Buchem

Visiting Professor of Digital Media & Diversity, Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin, Germany

Speaker

OEB speaker Michal Nowakowski

Michal Nowakowski

Institute of Sustainible Technologies - National Research Institute, Poland

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