Interactive Breakout Session OPN62
Disruption and Open Badges
Date Friday, Dec 2 Time – RoomChess
How can 21st century skills be reflected transparently for learners, educators, employers, policy-makers and other stakeholders? The disruptive element of Open Badges for all learners in different sectors lies in the fact that they support ownership, are able to offer flexible recognition and can respond to current workplace needs.
This session takes you to the future of badges. Learn about the ins and outs on how to include “evidence” and recognise credentials. It shares how large scale projects and platforms can be established to meet needs. And the facilitators aim to discuss together the kind of responsibilities you, your learners and the systems we currently work with should be able to handle.
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Moderators
Matteo Bertazzo
Project Manager, CINECA, Italy
Bestr: Open Badges and xAPI to Capture and Valorize Learning Experiences into the Student Information System
Matteo Bertazzo holds a Master Degree in Computer Science from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. After a research fellowship in Location-based Services from the National Research Council he works as web developer and technical project manager. He currently works as Solution Designer and PMP® certified Project Manager at CINECA InterUniversity Consortium. He has been involved in a number of Education and Digital Humanities projects, both for the consortium’s members and for EU-funded projects. He currently leads the development of Bestr, the Italian Open Badge platform. See Linkedin profile at
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbertazz
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Ilona Buchem
Visiting Professor of Digital Media & Diversity, Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany
Open Badges for Distributed Assessment of 21st Century Skills
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+).
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http://www.beuth-hochschule.de/impressum