1. Geoffroi Garon-Épaule is a PhD candidate researching digital badges and their uses in education, workplaces, and society. 2. Digital badges can recognize both formal and informal learning through skills, experiences, and levels of achievement represented in an encrypted digital file. 3. Badges have a variety of uses including evaluating skills, communicating accomplishments, structuring learning pathways, and motivating learners. They are increasingly used in education, job training, and social/volunteer contexts.

1. Fab 14 Toulouse
How to recognize (almost) anything
with digital badges
Geoffroi Garon-Épaule, M.A., PhD Candidate
Researcher and PhD Candidate in communication, UQAM (Montréal, Canada)
Entrepreneur – Human Capital Valorization, Digital Pygmalion
Workshop | Toulouse, France, July 18, 2018

2. 10 years digital consulting
(SME, Education, Health, Culture)
8 years in Open innovation
(Living Lab, Fab Lab, Blockchain, AI)
3 years in Digital Badges
(Startup + PhD)
Profile
http://digitalpygmalion.com

3. PhD codirection
Pierre-Léonard Harvey
Organizational Communication
Community
Informatics
Design Applied
to Digital Social
Systems
(Springer)
Ann-Louise Davidson
Educational Technology
www.educationmakers.cawww.lca.uqam.ca

4. Hub for experimentation and
training in technological and
social open innovation
8
2011
First in Canada
2010
Community Association Partner
2015-2018
Fab16 + FabCity
In Montreal, Canada
In 2020
Social inclusion – Education – Economy – Digital Fabrication
www.communautique.quebec

5. Community Association Partner
https://www.echofab.quebec

6. 1
Badge technology

7. Digital badges

9. They can be hosted, manage and shared across
digital files containing a set of encrypted metadata
that describe skill, experience or level of
accomplishment.
Digital badge is a digital file (web
page) that is a data and visual
representation of a learning or
accomplishment. It’s a tool that
confirms the evaluation of specific
experiences.
Digital Badges Definition

10. +
Context
Endorsment
Multilinguale

11. Digital Badge
https://www.cadre21.org/membres/thibaultm/accomplissement/badges/thibaultm-badge-classe-inversee-1-explorateur-5

12. Evidence associated with a badge
https://www.cadre21.org/app/uploads/preuves/55-1280.pdf
Image
Text
Video
PDF

13. Digital Badge Porfolio
https://www.cadre21.org/membres/thibaultm

14. The administrative component (dashboard) can
create badges, granting them to make effective
management and value them.
The user component (portfolio) presents itself as a
portfolio in which students collect, manage and
categorize their digital badges and above display for
communicating and sharing (social media, website,
etc.).
Digital badge system

15. • BackPack
• BadgeOS
• BadgeFactor
• Badgr
• P2PU
• Salava
Open
Platforms
Private
Platforms
• Acclaim
• Badgecraft
• Badgelist
• Credly
• DigitalMe
• Openbadge Factory
- Passport
• Canvas
• edX
• Moodle
• Totara
LMS
Platforms
Digital badge platforms

16. Badge Factor WordPress Plugin
www.badgefactor.com

17. Badgr, server platform
https://info.badgr.io

18. 2
Badges uses

19. Public education, social engagement
(volunteering), learning spaces
(Fab Lab, Living Lab), online training
(applications, MOOC)
Improve talent management,
increase organizational
effectiveness and marketing
Support and motivate students,
customize learning,
complement (co-curriculum)
3 Contexts of Use of digital credential
Academia
Workplace
Society

20. 3 Uses of Digital Badges
Evaluate
Communicate
Structure
Motivation
Recognition
Certification
Artefact
Portfolio
Data
Learning
Organization
Ecosystem

21. Advantages of digital badges
The main advantage of this technology is to recognize formal and
non-formal learning and generate confidence. There are also a host
of other benefits such as:
•Valuing a greater diversity of learning and skills
•Mapping learning pathways
•Motivate the level of learner engagement and retention
•Recognize the different paths leading to a badge
•Develop and enhance cross-curricular competencies and skills that
are often difficult to qualify (communicate, collaborate, creativity).
•Support the implementation and recognition of learning with
pedagogical approaches based on skills and projects (learning
experience).
•Increase the identity and reputation of learners
•Enabling learners to discover peers by interest in a community
•Increase the brand of an organization

22. From authority
to credibility
- Sheryl Grant

23. The value is built around
relationships among the
different actors and the
ecosystem that support
digital badges.
Issuer : Create and awards
the badge
Earner : Receive and
communicate the badge
Consumer : Recognize the
value of the badge
Earner
Issuer
Consumer
Trust
ecosystem
Digital badge value

24. Duolingo
Gamification to
learn a language
https://www.duolingo.com

25. Netmath
https://www.buzzmath.com/badges
Gamification to
practice Math

26. Mouse
http://www.mousesquad.org

27. Netmath
https://www.cityspan.com
Cityspan

28. CADRE21
https://www.cadre21.org
Teacher Professional development

29. CADRE21Teacher Professional development
https://enseigneraluniversite.com
Mai 2018 : 775 comptes enregistrés et près de 400
badges obtenus

30. CADRE21 Digital badge
https://enseigneraluniversite.com/members/geoffroi/badges/competences-de-base-en-pedagogie

31. CADRE21 Certificate
https://enseigneraluniversite.com/members/geoffroi/badges/competences-de-base-en-pedagogie

32. Université Wichita, Kansas
http://badges.wichita.edu/badgecatalog

33. IBM Digital Badges Program
https://www-03.ibm.com/services/learning/ites.wss/zz-en?pageType=page&c=M425350C34234U21
IBM have more than 1800
different digital badges.
Over 600,000 issued badges!

34. IBM Design Thinking Practitioner
https://www-03.ibm.com/services/learning/ites.wss/zz-en?pageType=badges&id=c98fdc5c-b5f5-4c00-bd61-2db0efabedde

35. https://www.ibm.com/design/thinking/page/badges
Entreprise Design Thinking Program

36. • Microsoft
• Oracle
• Cisco
• Autodesk
• Adobe
• HR Certification Institute
Corporate digital badges

37. badgetheworld
https://badge.wiki
Knowledge Base Wiki

38. badgetheworld
http://www.badgetheworld.org
Digital Badges Around the World

39. 3
Badges in Fab Labs

40. Uses of badges in fab labs
https://www.echofab.quebec/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Rapport-Badges-numeriques-Fab-Lab-Living-Lab-Communautique-Geoffroi-Garon-Epaule-LCA-UQAM-2016.pd

41. Impacts of digital badges in Fab Labs
• to improve the evaluation process of training and
apprenticeships
• better articulate and credibilize the offer of training
offered in relation to market needs
• to foster the networking and connections between the
actors of education and the labour market
• increase and support the development of skills for all
and lifelong learning
• to encourage the inclusion of Fab Lab organisation in the
various discussions on the formalization of the corpus of
competencies through digital badges
• contributed to the development of skills repositories in
Fabs Labs in Quebec and internationally

42. échoFab/Communautique – Montréal (Canada)
http://echofab.org
3D Print
First Project
Drone
Piloting
Fab
Manager

43. San Diego Fab Lab, California (USA)
http://www.fablabsd.org

44. Le Dôme – Caen (France)
http://ledome.info

45. Asso BUG, Lab Fab – Rennes (France)
https://www.asso-bug.org
https://www.asso-bug.org

46. Catherine Cook School Makerspace, Chicago (USA)
https://medium.com/@jd_pirtle/getting-started-with-digital-badging-in-makerspaces-class
JD Pirtle

47. Experimentation
Digital badge ecosystem
Digital badge generator
https://drive.google.com/open?id=19LfRNkVcctwffc25E0qhkRdVyQuzN532
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-s4JvwgiV1LSmxW7BCQSCA3V032bdfqI

48. 4
Badges for future

49. Social driver
for transformation
in education (and more)
- Willis III, Flintoff and McGraw

50. Generation 1 - Digitize skill, Certification,
Achievement / Mapping / Open standard
Generation 2 - Pathways learning /
Structuring / Ecosystem / Skill Gap /
Blockchain, Analytic Web, Deep learning
Generation 3 - Social role design / Skill as
an entity / Artificial intelligence / “I know
Kung Fu” Learning
Digital credential vertical innovation

51. Badgesfor.earth
Change the narratives
Badgesfor.space
SPACE EARTH

52. Prot ot ype on eart h

53. Fab. ci t y

54. http://www.makery.info/2017/05/09/la-fab-city-grand-paris-
et-son-terreau-tres-fertile-pour-une-ville-resiliente/
FabCity Mouvement

55. FEDERATION
Open Space makers
http://www.federation-openspacemakers.com

56. Tedx laval
badgetheworld
www.tinyurl.com/badgepourlespace
Badges pour l’espace :
La nouvelle frontière pour l’humanité
Badgesfor.space
Badgesfor.earth

57. I know digital badging.

58. Geoffroi Garon-Épaule, M.A., Ph.D Candidate
@geoffroigaron - www.geoffroigaron.com
Researcher and Ph.D candidate in Communication, UQAM
www.lca.uqam.ca
Entrepreneur, Digital Pygmalion
www.digitalpygmalion.com
E-mail : conseil@geoffroigaron.com
Phone : +1 514 773-3332
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