Badgeons la Normandie (Let’s Badge Normandy) is a network of institutions, associations and organisations working in education and training, employment and social integration. They are exploring the power of Open Badges for building a learning territory: developing, recognising, valorising and connecting the talents of Normans. For the open recognition week, Read more…
On Monday 10 September, Dominic Orr represented MIRVA-member FiBS at a German-speaking workshop looking at the role and design of digital certificates, with a particular focus on the application of open badges. The workshop took place at the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, and was attended by a group of 15 Read more…
You are more than a diploma Have you ever watched the TED Talk Do schools kill creativity? by Sir Ken Robinson? In this entertaining lecture – one of the most popular TED Talks of all time – Robinson filleted the contemporary education system with a large and vicious sense of Read more…
A short blog response from MIRVA partner, Dominic Orr (FiBS) FiBS Research has been investigating how further education works, who participates in further education and the impact of further education on the economy and our societies since its inception 25 years ago. One clear conclusion is that a central problem Read more…
MIRVA for Cineca: a chance to imagine how to enable recognition (with technology) by Chiara Carlino, MIRVA’s project manager for Cineca Cineca is a consortium of 66 Italian university and its mission is centered around providing technology to universities: technology for research (high performance computing), technology for administrative processes, technology for Read more…