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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