(OPEN) BADGES

VINCENT VAN MALDEREN

INCREASING TALENT MOBILITY

HR Trends & Beyond: Anticipating the Future

16 million increase in high skilled jobs

12 million decrease in low skilled jobs

Unemployment rate = 12%

High youth uneployment rate = double!

Talent

Demographics

Work life

Change / CultureMobility

Technology

Certification

• Badges: what else is new?• The future is here

– Mozilla Open Badges = digital credentials

• Increasing talent mobility through badging• The pudding

Badges

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images taken from http://openmatt.org/tag/openbadges/; https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/FAQs; Jarin Schmidt EATP 2013

Badges = visual representations of a skill or achievement

Anatomy:

Badge name

Description

Criteria

Issuer

Evidence

Date issued

Standards

Tags

How digital badges work

• Organiz-ations

• Universities• …

Issuer BACKPACKRecipient

• Employment sites

• Networks• …

Bene-ficiary

ISSUE EARN DISPLAY

“Who else is currently using Open Badges?”

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