reporting from the ims europe summit esco and open badges · 2020-05-08 · hfd open badges report...
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ESCO and Open Badges: reporting from the IMS Europe summit
Simone Ravaioli, Digitary ESCO Maintenance Committee member
500 members worldwide - 10% in Europe
ESCO & OpenBadgesaka Connecting people to jobs in Europe
Tim Richies - Digitalme (UK)
Eric Rousselle - Open Badge Factory (FI)
Lambros Pardale - Europass UK
(analog) Badges// Visual tokens of achievement in pre-internet history
Digital Badges// Micro or Macro, rigorous or informal… online
Open Badges// Open, interoperable, portable, verifiable
25 Millions issued // across Edu and Work domain
ESCO and OB Projects// grassroot, funded, institutional, platforms
• Open Badge Factory (Finland)• Bestr (Italy*)• BadgeCraft (Lithuania)• ODEM ?
* via the Open VM project
Platforms
• GrowBit (Growth Based scholarships)• BadgeBuilder (Cognizone, OpenKnowledge
Belgium)• bSkilled (Summer of Code project)
Grassroot
bSkilled
• Open Virtual Mobility (Erasmus +)• City of Learning (Erasmus +)• ABECS (Erasmus +)• ComPas (Breda municipaity)• CompLeap.eu (EU)
Funded
• EntreComp– Study for DG JRC
• DigComp– SELFIE tool
Institutional
Infographic by Cogni.Zone
Research// ESCO, Open Badges, Europass
HFD Open Badges report (2019)
• Making competences visible with Open Badges– Authors: Ilona Buchem, Dominic Orr, Christine Brunn
• 3 scenario for scaling Open Badges• Focus on Medium scenario
– ESCO, EURES, EUROPASS• “GPS for Open Badges”
Infrastructure
• Describe skills and qualifications with ESCO in OB and job advertisements: EURES
• Storage and display: EUROPASS• OB semantic links with ESCO.• OB integrated into EUROPASS CV
Conditions
• Recognition and use of ESCO and EUROPASS by universities and employers
• Create interfaces to open badges in enterprise software, e.g. HR software.
Stakeholders
• Decision-makers from the fields of education and work at national and European level
• Universities • ESCO and EUROPASS managers • Open Badges platforms• HR, HCM, Talent Mgmt systems
(really) Open Standards// adoption, dilemmas, multipliers
Open Badges are// Verifiable Credentials… like EDCI/DSC/Europass
Badge-Connect (OBv2.1)// on interoperability of wallets and backpacks
Opportunities// crowdsourcing translations and multiplying adoption
Suggestions// IMS as stakeholder to multiply adoption of ESCO and EUROPASS
Appendix // bonus tracks and additional content
● Federated Backpack● Recipient controls where their data lives and who may access it● Developers only need to integrate once● Service discovery via OAuth 2.0 Dynamic Client Registration● Authorization with OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code access token grants● Standardized API
Badge Connect APIOpen Badges 2.1: February 2020
Open Badge Factory
• ESCO integrated into badging platform– https://openbadgefactory.com/badgenewsobfcase17/
• Potentially useful to feedback translations back into ESCO DB
Open Virtual Mobility
• Erasmus+• Semantic Competency Directory based on
ESCO• Using the Bestr platform
Growbit framework
ESCOBadges
City of Learning (BadgeCraft)
Cities of Learning
• Available functionalities– Organisers of activities can search and add ESCO skills
when describing and publishing their activities• Next steps
– To add extended references from the skill to occupations• Challenges with ESCO
– skills not found– mismatch between skills and occupation– localization by national qualification frameworks
ABECS project
• Aligning Badges, ESCO, and the Certificate Supplement (ABECS)
• Erasmus+• pilot in the hospitality sector• UK Europass Center involved
CompLeap
https://www.compleap.eu/
ComPas
• Alignign trasveral skills to ESCO