Badu Open Badges – a new way to validate youth work

by janus | May 10, 2021 | collection, Project, Website, Youth work organisations

BADU aims to professionalise youth workers and youth educators and validate their competences in supporting youth mobility and non-formal learning. This is achieved through the creation of Open Badges. This Erasmus+ funded project fosters the use of Open Badges for...

MICROBOL Desk research report

by janus | May 10, 2021 | collection, Europe, Formal education providers, Higher Education Institutions, Meta-Study, National or regional government agencies, Policy Makers

Link: Microbol – Micro-credentials linked to the Bologna Key Commitment is an Erasmus+ sponsored project that tries to give advice how to reform higher education, how this can comprise micro-credentials, also to support increasing access to continuous learning for all...

Digital Badges, do they live up to the hype?

by janus | May 10, 2021 | collection, Companies, Employment-related learners, Formal education providers, Higher Education Institutions, Meta-Study, Multiple, Research Study

This paper reviews 23 badge studies documenting the contexts in which digital badges were used,  and their effects on learner engagement, motivation, empowerment and skills recognition.

The use of Open Badges in library and information science education in Estonia

by janus | May 10, 2021 | Case Study, collection, Europe, Formal education providers, Higher Education Institutions, LMS, Research Study

This excellent research paper reviews the history and use of Open Badges within Higher Education, it provides references to case studies from the early days of Open Badges to these days and their learning, regarding the advantages, disadvantages and challenges of...

Open badges as credentials in open education systems: Case studies from Greece and Europe

by janus | May 10, 2021 | Academic publication, Article, collection, Europe, Higher Education Institutions, Lifelong learners, Meta-Study, National or regional government agencies

This research paper examines the role and the contribution of Open Badges in open education systems, it reviews through case studies how Open Badges have been used so far and how could they be used to improve the quality of studies, especially in non-formal and...