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The 17 goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development contain explicit references to persons with disabilities (Sustainable Development Goal 4, SDG 8, SDG 10, SDG 11, and SDG 17), interconnecting these with the CRPD.
The Internet is an essential tool to access and provide information and services, particularly during a worldwide pandemic. A lack of accessible online information on how to prevent transmission of the virus by following guidelines, etc. may have fatal consequences for persons with disabilities. The COVID-19 pandemic is deepening preexisting inequalities, and persons with disabilities are disproportionately affected. Read the UN disability-inclusive Response to COVID-19.
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Reflecting on the Evolving Badges and Credentials Ecosystem | WAO | We Are Open Co-op
- Open Badges and Digital Badges are both visual.
- Verifiable Credentials, on the other hand, may use images, but do not have to
- The great thing about the move to Verifiable Credentials is that decentralised identifers can be used (as well as email addresses) to identify recipients.
- A microcredential is not a separate technical standard.
- Open Recognition is not a separate technical standard but rather a philosophical position about the nature of recognition in society.
- somewhat at odds with the idea of a ‘credential’.
- An Open Badge should live, not gather dust in a drawer.
- And if a badge is fake, it’s up to the humans to say so, the humans in the community of practice or professional who can spot a crook
- Different countries and cultures have varying expectations when it comes to education, skills development, and the recognition of learning.
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Reflecting on a decade of Open Badges | Doug Belshaw | WAO | We Are Open Co-op
- There was a growing recognition that badges were useful tools for marketing, for talent acquisition, and for team formation.
- standardise on frameworks within badges were issued, for example the European MOOC Consortium who established the Common Microcredential framework.
- CAYG focuses on incremental credentialing in an attempt rather than the all-or-nothing approaches of bachelor’s degrees and the like.
- The next step, which is the move to Open Badges 3.0 and alignment with the W3C’s Verifiable Credentials standard, will be an interesting one.
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Determining Environmental and Contextual Needs - Design for Learning
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5 easy ways to make your data visualization more accessible — storytelling with data
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Links | Usability & Web Accessibility
"Link Text It’s most important for link text to make sense without the surrounding sentences or content. The link text alone should convey the function and purpose of the link. Link text should also be unique and easy to speak out loud. Consider these guidelines when writing link text: Avoid link text like “Click Here,” “More,” and “Read More.” These kinds of links can be confusing when a screen reader reads them out of context. Use unique link text where possible. Speech recognition software users may have a bad experience with duplicated link text. It is OK to link a full sentence, but avoid longer. Use judgment when linking full URLs. When linking a URL, consider users who must speak it out loud and who must listen to a screen reader announce it. Fallbacks Occasionally, it may not be possible to make link text alone convey the link’s purpose out of context. In those cases, a few fallback strategies are available: The link together with the surrounding sentence, paragraph, or list item should be enough to convey a link’s meaning or purpose. You may give more context through the link’s title attribute. These approaches create a worse experience for users with disabilities, so they should a last resort."
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Defining micro-credentials: Opportunities and challenges in shaping the educational landscape
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Do we need a theory for blended learning? | Tony Bates
- asynchronous online learning has generally reflected a more constructivist approach.
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AUTOMATIC READABILITY CHECKER, a Free Readability Formula Consensus Calculator
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Use point-biserial to discriminate high and low performers | GradeHub
- Point-biserial helps instructors know what makes a good or bad test question, and is essential for faculty developing exams for large class sections. The deciding factor between a good or bad test question is its ability to “discriminate” students who have mastered the material from those who have not. The key is to look at who is getting the item correct and who is getting it wrong. If only the high performing students are getting a question correct, it might be an indicator that the item is too hard.
- One of the most accepted ways to evaluate an item is to calculate a correlation. The technical term for the correlation used in exam item analysis is a point-biserial.
- A high point-biserial reflects the fact that the item is doing a good job of discriminating your high-performing students from your low-performing students.
- Values for point-biserial range from -1.00 to 1.00. Values of 0.15 or higher mean that the item is performing well
- Items with incorrect keys will show point-biserials close to or below zero.
- Point-biserials that are negative signal a big problem. With this pattern, the high-performing students are getting the answer wrong, and the low and/or mid performing students are getting it right
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Digital Accessibility Foundations - Free Online Course | Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) | W3C
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Open Badge eCredentials for Extended Enterprise Learning | Littoraly Don
- It comes with a twist, focusing not on employee development, but on partner development in the value chain, with the goal of measurably improving customer satisfaction and sales growth.
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- initially designed to recognise informal learning, Open Badges have been used efficiently by the enemies of informal learning and Open Recognition. If we do not pay attention, Open Badges could become the weapons of mass destruction of informal learning!
- Open Badges are overtly used to submit informal learning to the codes and rules of formal learning and, in doing so, destroy the very soul of informal learning.
- On our view, recent government attempts to try to formalise informal learning suggests an almost obsessive distrust of the role of judgement through agency
- The sub-text is that there is no recognition, at least, no valuable recognition, if not performed by or within an authoritative institution — school, college, university, employer, public authority, etc.
- Open Badges were designed to support the formal recognition of informal learning. They were never designed to address the informal recognition of informal learning.
- the actual place of informal recognition in those projects remains principally ancillary to formal recognition
- If institutions of formal education love badges, it is not so much because they are the instruments of innovation and transformation, but because they allow them to continue business as usual while pretending to do something new
- Another critical issue is that, before their invention, there was a clear separation between the formal and the informal spaces, and informal meant a sense of freedom and independence, at least not being under the scrutiny of institutions of formal education.
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Towards an Ethical Framework for Open Recognition | by Serge Ravet | Open Recognition | Medium
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Kirkpatrick and Open Badges: Can do better! | by Serge Ravet | Medium
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Competency Badges: the tail wagging the dog? | by Serge Ravet | Medium
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Learning Futures – Reflections on Learning, Technologies, Identities and Trust
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Full article: Wikipedia and open recognition: writing the future of work
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All about Open Badges – Open Badge Info : Tout savoir sur les Open Badges
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Screenreader Comparisons | Paths to Technology | Perkins eLearning
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Cómo hacer que la información sea accesible para todos | European Blind Union
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6 consejos para crear contenido accesible en Word | EDUCACIÓN 3.0
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An Integrative Approach to Student Understanding and Learning | Faculty Focus
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- technological environment means cheating is a more complex question than it once was
- In normal study we're asking students to collaborate together and learn together, because we know that social learning is really important for building up knowledge and sharing knowledge... so we're actually asking students to do this all the time, and then we get to an exam environment and we're asking for individual knowledge."
- rethink the entire area of online examinations, academic integrity and [how] academic misconduct is communicated to students."
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Reskilling Post COVID-19: A Digital Transformation | RiseSmart
- Digital credentialing is becoming a key differentiator for organizations that care about the employee experience and want to be viewed as employers of choice.
- Digital badges are a powerful way to offer continual opportunities for career development and recognition of new skills that are valued in the market.
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An Era of Change: Remote Engagement, Multi-tasking, and Camera Policies | Faculty Focus
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Increasing Student Engagement During Synchronous Online Classes | Faculty Focus
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Badges Need Rigor! (Or do they really?) - IBM Training and Skills Blog
- The debate about Open Badges has shifted from their use as a signal of achievement to a dialog about rigor and the qualifications to earn a badge
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We wanted to make sure we protected the IBM brand, provided valuable, trusted credentials with real business value, and we wanted earners to share them frequently to improve their reputation. If they don’t have value, why bother claiming them? We developed standards, badge classifications and governance to guide our program and created process that would scale across the complex, vast world of IBM activities.
But, even with stringent processes, definitions and governance in place, I am frequently asked about rigor. “How much rigor is involved in this badge?” It’s the wrong question, because Open Badges were not designed to be relegated to activities with an arbitrary definition of rigor; they were designed to do much, much more.
- But badges are not exams – badges are not even activities. Open Badges are digital representations of information.
- Badges are about connecting people to opportunity.
- Open Badges can — no, must – be leveraged to capture passions and interests, as well as achievements
- Badges = Information you don’t even know you need
- Open Badges should also capture information about abilities which fall outside traditional assessment, and many of these abilities have real business value
- Speaking of the future, who will raise their hands to tell us which skills will be needed in the next workforce? A new study finds 85% of jobs that will exist in 2030 haven’t been invented yet. And if the World Economic Forum is correct, the skills for the future look very different from the skills today, and they are changing in front of our eyes
- As Open Badges have increased in adoption, the number of issuers and badges issued has risen dramatically. While some have expressed concern there are now too many badge issuers and too many badges, Serge Ravet, president of the Open Recognition Alliance, said he believes the opposite is true. Badges, he says, develop trust. Because they are transparent and provide information about the activity, a person viewing a badge can instantly determine the value, unlike resumes which frequently contain falsehoods. “If badges develop trust, how much trust is too much?” Ravet asks
- With badges, you should be able to identify and isolate the badges that matter to you — without having to sift through badges that may be valuable to someone else.
- We must make it easy to identify and distinguish badges for soft skills or self-identified passions from rigorous activities, like certification exams.
- we must find better ways to differentiate and classify badges.
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The three biggest (perceived) problems with Open Badges | Open Thinkering
- the same ‘big three’ issues came up as potential concerns.
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- Value
- Motivation
- Quality
- there are no gatekeepers
- The recognition that the badge consumer
- The ‘rigour’ of the criteria
- Value is an emergent property of systems. I could write much, much more on this, including discussions of fiat currencies and things that are used in place of currency for trusted exchanges.
- a result of poor learning design
- If badges are aspirational, if they recognise things that the learner feels proud of, and if they are part of a non-linear pathway, then I don’t think there’s a problem.
- The OBI is a method for issuing, exchanging, and displaying metadata-infused credentials
- To be clear, my first issue is with the way “high quality” is often equated with the traditional process and that process only.
- It takes a leap of faith to apply Open Badges to your core business
- Badges are a ‘trojan horse’ technology. They get people talking about things that usually remain latent within their organisation. Badges are also something into which people project their hopes, fears, and dreams
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Mapping Out a ‘Credential As You Go’ Movement For Higher Education | EdSurge News
- only approximately three out of five students finish any type of degree or certificate program within six years.”
- Its goals include creating a national credentialing system designed around what the journey through higher education and job training actually looks like for many people: intermittent, nonlinear and unpredictable.
- The idea of having a framework is it becomes purposeful. It’s not a one-time thing. How do we think about this from a systemic perspective?
- To that end, the leaders of “Credential As You Go” are planning a national campaign to raise awareness about how and why recognition for learning could change, perhaps by telling the stories of people who might benefit from more bite-sized credentials.
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The Uses of Feminist Pedagogy Before, During, and After the Pandemic | Faculty Focus
- For many of us, this precarity drives home the point that feminist pedagogical theorists have made for decades: that we all, students and instructors, bring our lives with us to the classroom. In order to teach and to learn, we must be able to make connections between course content and our personal experiences. We must work to cultivate online learning environments in which we recognize how material circumstances (e.g., whether one has a job or job security, how hungry, stressed, or depressed one is, etc.) shape our ability to learn and teach.
- Feminist pedagogy, while not a panacea for solving all of our teaching challenges (how job insecurity affects our ability to teach, for instance), provides us with some strategies for making sure that our online teaching is not soulless, disembodied, and isolating for everyone involved.
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Staying Competitive in a Post-Pandemic World with Microcredentials - The EvoLLLution The EvoLLLution