Presentation (remote) at Silesian Univeristy of Technology, Poland. 14.06.23

1. Open Badges: Where will they
take you?
Teresa MacKinnon
@warwicklanguage

2. Creation and curation
Create badges:
Happens in a platform such as Open
Badge Factory (European, GDPR
compliant)
Account levels from free to Pro offer
varied functions/limits.
Reports allow feedback to inform
strategy
Curate your badges:
Individuals create a free account on
Open Badge Passport to collect and
curate their recognition
Easy creation of online pages to
display and show skills and
experiences
Mobile app makes badge use really
quick and easy

3. Challenges or opportunities?
● Paper certificates: historically valued,
understood widely
● Physical copy can be shown to
prospective employer
● Network with connections on same
course/s through institution
● Digital artefacts: harder to falsify,
portable
● Design your online eportfolio/s to
showcase your experiences as widely as
you wish
● Network with others who share your
interests wherever they are
Static artefacts vs dynamic artefacts
End the learning provide routes to continue

4. Future thoughts...
“If we are concerned to create educational practices that work
towards the common good and towards sustainable futures, then
our first concern must be to attend to the causes of existing
injustices, individualisation and unsustainability and to proceed
from there. While digital technology can be an adjunct to this wider
work, digital technology alone is not capable of creating
sustainable educational futures.”
(Facer & Selwyn 2021)

5. Accessibility-open to all!

6. Earn a badge!
Use your phone to scan the QR code
Or use this link
Complete the badge application by
adding a screenshot or link to your
evidence
Look out for the badge email or check
your Open Badge Passport account.

7. Virtual exchange badges issued by UNICollaboration
Over 1,000 badges issued
since the end of Erasmus +
virtual exchange initiative
Recognition of participation,
trainee and ambassador
status in VE

8. My open badges journey
Partial illustration
of suite of badges
for the Open
Centre for
Languages and
Cultures at the
Open University
UK

10. Heutagogy defined
Heutagogy is the study of self- determined learning and applies a
holistic approach to developing learner capabilities with the learner
serving as the major agent in their own learning which occurs as a
result of personal experience.
• Stewart Hase & Chris Kenyon (2007, p. 112)
“Our reliance upon anointed experts and authority figures has diminished,
while our capacity to learn from each other has spiralled.”
Open: How we’ll work, live and learn in the future. David Price.

11. Explore
Share
Reflect
Connect
Create
Collaborate
Heutagogic design. Based on image by Blaschke and Hase (in Gros et al. (eds) 2016)

12. Double loop learning: challenging our assumptions
Image from:
Stern, T., Townsend, A., Rauch, F.
& Schuster, A. (eds.) (2014).
“Action Research, Innovation and
Change. International
Perspectives Across Disciplines”.
London: Routledge.

13. Recognition of digital participation in professional
development Started issuing
presenter badges in
October 2022
So far 129 badges
issued, 45% shared via
Twitter, 44% shared via
LinkedIn, 11% on
Facebook

14. Just getting started:
Check out the blog
Badges about to hatch!

15. Challenges to you:
● Collect and expect open badge recognition for your professional learning,
share and curate those badges openly.
● Design and offer open badges in your teaching
● Provide opportunities for reflection and double loop learning to your
students through use of eportfolio tools, blogging and autoethnographic
approaches
● Connect with others through open display of your badge activity, you
never know where you may go next!

16. My Badge publications:
My ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1701-3727
Recognising participation in virtual exchange: open badges and the Clavier contribution.
in Designing and Implementing Virtual Exchange: a Collection of Case Studies. published by
Research-Publishing.net
https://research-publishing.net/book?10.14705/rpnet.2020.45.9782490057726
Innovating Language Pedagogy Report
https://research-publishing.net/manuscript?10.14705/rpnet.2021.50.1236

17. References:
• Blaschke, L.M, and Hase, S. (2016) Heutagogy: A Holistic Framework for Creating
Twenty-First-Century Self-determined Learners. In Gros, B., Kinshuk & Maina, M. (2016). The Future of
Ubiquitous Learning. Berlin:Springer
• Blaschke, L.M., Kenyon, C. and Hase, S. (2014). Experiences in Self-Determined Learning. Available
from http://wp.me/p2Ymfo-51
• Hayes, S. and Kenyon, C (2007) Heutagogy: A child of complexity theory. Complicity Vol 4 no.1
Retrieved 25.1.2015
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.397.5180&rep=rep1&type=pdf
• McAvinia, C. (2016). Chapter 3 Activity Theory in: Online learning and its users: lessons for higher
education. Chandos Publishing.
• Nardi, B. A. (Ed.). (1996). Context and consciousness: Activity theory and human-computer interaction.
MIT Press.
• Vygotsky, L. S., & Cole, M. (1978). Mind in society: Development of higher psychological processes.
Harvard university press.