ePortfolios & Open Badges to the Service of Learning Quality

ePortfolios & Open Badges to the

Service of Learning Quality

Serge RavetADPIOS, EUROPORTFOLIO

Fédération Interuniversitaire de l’enseignement à Distance

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Journée Thématique

Paris, 13 janvier 2014

The EUROPORTFOLIO / EPNET project is funded with support from the European Commission.

Tuesday, 14 January 14

Presentation

• eQuality

• ePortfolio

• Open Badges

• (ePortfolio + Open Badges) * eQuality

eQuality

?from Quality of Learningto Quality as Learning

What would the consequences be if we moved our reflection

?from Quality of Learningto Quality as Learning

from Quality of eLearningto eQuality of Learning

What would the consequences be if we moved our reflection

!eQuality of Learning

Quality as Learning

Furthermore...

The 'quality' of an elitist system with structural failure built-in is of a different nature from the quality of an inclusive system concerned with

exploiting all the talents available in a community

Quality without humanistic values is but the ruin of learning*

*Science sans conscience n'est que ruine de l'âme - Rabelais

Learning is not about consuming pre-digested knowledge but a social process where knowledge and understanding is co-produced

?Do quality systems tend to encourage subservience rather than autonomy, innovation and creativity?

conformance

QAg e n e r a l l y l o o k fo r

Traditional

systems

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QAa s e x t r i n s i c i n c e n t i ve s

systems

Punished by Rewards

! Grades GradeLearning*

A number of scientific studies demonstrate that grades and external incentives kill innovation and autonomy

?Conformism

ConformanceHow far from

Conformism is a term used to describe the suspension of an individual's self-determined actions or opinions in favor of obedience to the mandates or conventions of one's peer-group, or deference to the imposed norms of a supervening authority.

Conformist

Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus, 2nd Edition.

conformistnounconventionalist, traditionalist, orthodox person, conservative, bourgeois, (old) fogey, stickler, formalist, diehard, reactionary; crawler, truckler, kowtower, groveller, puppet, spaniel; informal stick-in-the-mud, stuffed shirt, yes-man. ANTONYMS eccentric; rebel.

Conformist

Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus, 2nd Edition.

Tools for eQuality*

*Literally and metaphorically!

ePortfolios& Open Badges

Definitions

digital records of achievements, skills, interests, affiliations or roles (Mozilla)

Open Badges

ePortfolios collection of electronic evidence assembled and managed by a user, usually on the Web (Wikipedia)

Weakipedia?

digital records of achievements, skills, interests, affiliations or roles (Mozilla)

Open Badges

ePortfolios organised collection of evidence demonstrating reflective learning (me)

criterion-based trust statements (me)

?Open BadgesePortfolios

What relation between

Open Badges

ePortfolios

Individuation*

* G. Simondon

ePortfolios are more abstract

than Open Badges

Open Badges

ePortfolios

Mainframes

Helen Barrett, 2010ENIAC, 1947

ePortfolio Revisited

Facts &

I did this and this in order to achieve this Badge, and I have these pieces of evidence to prove it.

My role was:...This is how it connects to my previous knowledge & experience:...

ePortfolio Repository

narrativenarrativenarrative

narrative

narrativenarrative

narrative

ePortfolio

I did this and this in order to achieve this Badge, and I have these pieces of evidence to prove it.

My role was:...This is how it connects to my previous knowledge & experience:...

Fractal ePortfolio

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ePortfolios of ePortfolios of ePortfolios of ePortfolios of ePortfolios of ...

The 'fractal' nature of ePortfolios is mirrored in

Open Badges...

competency

Collection

competency

Aggregation

knowledge, skills,

attitudes & values

Mastery

Granularity

What do Open Badges bring to ePortfolios??

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Anatomy of an Open Badge

Remixed from Kyle Bowen

Criteria

Evidence

Narratives

Issuer Holder

Assertion

Criteria

Evidence

Image I trust you

Narratives

Issuer Holder

Assertion

Criteria

Evidence

Image to do this

Narratives

Issuer Holder

Assertion

Criteria

Evidence

Image I trust you

Narratives

to do this

Based on that evidence

Issuer Holder

Assertion

Open Badges?(What about degrees, certificates, diplomas?)

Criteria

Evidence

Narratives

My trust is also represented by this image

Issuer Holder

Assertion

Criteria

Evidence

Narratives

My trust is also represented by this image

Issuer Holder

Assertion

Criteria

Evidence

Issuer Holder

Narratives

Assertion

?What relationship between eQuality,

ePortfolios & Open Badges?

eQuality of learning should be about empowering learners to

make informed decisions regarding their learning and the

learning of their community

Quality as learningvs

Quality of learning

eQuality is about the use of ICT to improve the quality of individual

and organisational learning.

ePortfolios & Open Badges are the prime

sources of eQuality data

LearnNarratives

Badge Registry

Competency Standard

Repository

Awarding Body

CurateBadge

IssuerAccredit

Teaching institution

Training Body

AssessAuthorise

Verify

Individual ePortfolios /

badges

Narratives

Organisational ePortfolio / badges

Feed-in

Narratives

Informs

Feeds-in

LearningImprov

Open Data

Open ServicesLearning Analytics QAOpen Badges Open

Portfolio ....

Open Trust

Open SocietyOpen

IdentitiesOpen

LearningOpen

Employment

Personal Data Store

Public Anonymous Data Store

Open Government

Almost!

Quality of assessmentvs

Assessment of Quality

The problem with

"This coercion had such a deterring effect that after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."

Albert Einstein referring to exams, in an autobiographical essay published in 1946

!eQuality of Learning

Quality as Learning

Merci !

Serge RavetADPIOS, EUROPORTFOLIO

The EUROPORTFOLIO / EPNET project is funded with support from the European Commission.

@Szerge, learningfutures.euepforum.eu, europorAolio.org, iosf.org

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