Sheila Jagannathan is Global head, digital learning & Capacity building bij de Wereldbank. Een paar maanden geleden heeft ze een boek geredigeerd “Reimagining Digital Learning for Sustainable Development“, by Francis & Taylor, NY and Oxford, June 2021.
In het gratis te downloaden hoofdstuk 8 schrijft Martin Dougiamas, oprichter en CEO van Moodle over The power of educational technology. Martin bespreekt daarbij ook Open Badges en Open Recognition. Hieronder een overname van dat deel.
Open Recognition
While it is important to focus on wider educational issues in our systems (such as the building of citizens rather than just workers), it is critical to be able to track and recognize assessments of things that have been learned.
Currently, the world is lacking a standard way to capture our competencies and skills in a way that is truly transferable and can be used as part of automatable systems with a high degree of confidence. For example, if I demonstrate some skills while learning in one organization, that organization (or any individual) should be able to digitally sign a number of statements about my skills which I can easily share with anyone else who needs to see them. The weight and value of these signed statements should be tied to the reputation and traceability of the organization or individual who issued them to me.
One of the reasons this doesn’t exist yet is because all known solutions depend on one company, or one website, and that will just not work in the long term because people won’t trust it. A long-lasting solution to this depends on an open infrastructure being created that uses distributed technologies and digital signing techniques to create full trust in the system by all parties, some AI to parse the complex web of data, plus political weight behind it to enforce some standards in skills and competencies.
Pioneers in this area include Open Badges (https://openbadges.org/) and Open Recognition (www.openrecognition.org/).
It is good to see tangible progress in all these areas of Open Education, and I’m excited for the future and to be a part of helping it to happen.