Open Credentials for Open Education
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The document discusses the challenges of traditional educational credentials, highlighting issues like limited access, lack of standards, and the inefficiency of verification processes. It advocates for a transition to an open credential system utilizing standards such as the European Qualifications Framework and modern technologies like blockchain. The aim is to create an accessible, transparent system for recognizing educational achievements that supports open education and empowers learners.
Open Credentials for Open Education
- 1. OpenCredentials for Open Education Moving the Needle Forward Ildiko Mazar Knowledge InnovationCentre European Distance LearningWeek – 6 November 2018
- 2. Education is a PublicGood This means Open Access to Educational Opportunities Use of Open Educational Resources Empowerement of Students through Open Educational Practices
- 3. A typical process model forOpen Education Input Process Output Open Educational Resources Open Educational Practices ? Educational Credentials
- 4. Credentials are still not digital Limited Access to Underlying Information Lack of (Technical) Standards for Credential Information Closed Standards for Security &Verification No Aggregation of Credential Data What’s wrong with (digital) credentials?
- 6. The average employer will not research applicants’ credentials Source: Career Arc If it costs an employer more to verify a credential then to test the skills, the credential is effectively worthless.
- 7. Lack of Technical Standards leads to exclusion Source: Career Arc
- 10. Closed Credentials expensive and time consuming to acquire hard to use and share hinder Open Education by failing to evidence flexible learning pathways in a transparent manner exclude the people who need them most can be abused by networks of intermediaries do not inform policy
- 11. The Road toOpen Disrupting Credentials for the Public Good
- 13. EUStandards for Qualifications EU standards for qualifications European Qualifications Framework: gives an indication as to the level of various qualifications European Diploma Supplement: provides a standardised template to give additional information about a degree European CreditTransfer System: allows for individual learning units to be described in terms of knowledge, skills, responsibility and autonomy European Skill, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations database provides a standard terminology
- 14. EUStandards for Qualifications EU standards for qualifications European Qualifications Framework: gives an indication as to the level of various qualifications Not for non-formal education or microcredentials European Diploma Supplement: provides a standardised template to give additional information about a degree Only for degrees European CreditTransfer System: allows for individual learning units to be described in terms of knowledge, skills, responsibility and autonomy Only for Higher Education - not included fully in qualification European Skill, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations database provides a standard terminology Not used by all the tools above
- 16. National ID Systems can replace companies as sources of trust for signing too complex to use for the average person
- 17. WithBlockchainyoudon’tneedanintermediarytosigna documentatall the technology is still extremely young
- 18. AGlobal Platform forSkills alreadyexists… should one company have a monopoly on skills data?
- 19. Elements of a System for Open Educational Credentials User-Held Credentials Open Standards OpenTech Stack Independent Verification Open Aggregation
- 20. TwoOngoing Initiatives Our little big challenge…. Create a digital standard format for documenting open education credentials based on ECTS oepass.eu
- 21. TwoOngoing Initiatives Our little big challenge…. Create a model blockchain infrastructure for storing and automatically verifying credentials microcredentials.eu
- 22. www.microcredentials.eu Imagine a Future where recognition is universal automatic seamless
- 23. A typical process model forOpen Education Input Process Output Open Educational Resources Open Educational Practices ? Educational Credentials
- 24. A typical process model forOpen Education Input Process Output Open Educational Resources Open Educational Practices Open Educational Credentials
- 25. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION You can download this presentation at: Ildiko Mazar ildiko@knowledgeinnovation.eu https://www.slideshare.net/ildikomazar
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Editor's Notes
- #5: There are no technical standards – employers do simple keyword search No Aggregation of Credential Data: no data available on what skills are driving the job market in Europe
- #10: It is possible to check the average hotel rating in any European country, but not the job market’s demand for skills and qualifications (or supply of skills and qualifications by education providers).
- #20: Until a comprehensive solution emerges: Use learning outcomes in certificates Use secure certificates Stay away from proprietary certificate software