Le RESDAC et l’ICÉA ont uni leurs expertises pour créer une plateforme numérique de badges pour les adultes francophones du Canada. Sur ce site, vous trouverez des informations sur les badges numériques et les moyens de participer à la consultation visant à améliorer le prototype de plateforme.
Une plateforme de badges est un portfolio électronique où les adultes peuvent montrer des preuves de leurs compétences, en particulier celles qui ne sont pas reconnues par des diplômes.
En mars 2024, nous avons dévoilé un prototype de plateforme numérique pour des badges destinés aux francophones du Canada.
RESDAC and ICÉA have combined their expertise to create a digital badge platform for French-speaking adults in Canada. On this site you will find information about digital badges and ways to participate in the consultation to improve the prototype platform.
A badge platform is an electronic portfolio where adults can show evidence of their skills, especially those that are not recognized by degrees.
In March 2024, we unveiled a prototype digital platform for badges intended for French speakers in Canada.
This is one among many items I will regularly tag in Pinboard as oegconnect, and automatically post tagged as #OEGConnect to Mastodon. Do you know of something else we should share like this? Just reply below and we will check it out.
So, I did participate in a workshop about Francobadges and derived insight from that participation. The most direct connection I can make with OEG has to do with Lifelong Learning (L3), as a broad domain for opening up education. Had side discussions about possible futures for educational systems which related quite directly with L3 as a way to get out of the institutional mindset. In my experience, it’s been important to situate formal education as a specific set of approaches within the much broader domain of learning. (And, yes, this does include professional learning, Communities of Practice, “on-the-job training”, Prior Learning Assessment, etc.)
As for the Francobadges initiative, specifically…
In community calls for the Open Recognition Is for Everybody CoP, Don Presant (Learning Agents) has been on the record about the quality of work done by Francophones in Canada with records to Open Badging. While there’s some specificity to what’s happening here (including the impact of longterm work in French as a minority language outside of Quebec), there’s a component which could work in any initiative related to badging (or just about anything else):
Focusing on community needs
While there’s a platform involved and a whole technological system, the core insight is about using those to respond to questions and issues which are salient for community members, including a significant number of small organizations. In fact, there was a whole Social Economy side to the workshop which was more relevant than OEG members focused on institutions might realize.
Building the platform is a means to an end. That much is obvious. It’s not an attempt to get funding because some budget just opened up, as happens so frequently in Higher Ed. Figuring out what the end is required different work from what was expected. So, pretty much what we do in Service Design and Living Labs. Not to mention all the work done in Change Management.
So… I know this is all going in different directions and it’s not digestible as “these are the three things Francobadges will help you learn, right this minute”. It’s partly because of the way my brain tends to work and partly because I haven’t been involved that directly in the event.
Still, I feel like there’s something there which might connect with a few OEGers who care about Open Education in a broader frame than is typically proposed.
Very appreciative to read tis, Alex, not every thing needs to be boiled down to a top three listicle I’d like to hear more from people who participate in various events.
While not directly under an open education banner I agree that there is much interest for microcredentially, but more so, the idea about what this could mean for small organizations/projects, and also intrigued by the social economy approach.
