Open Badges

OPEN BADGES

INSPIRATIONAL LUNCH SELOR 30/04/2015

• Innovation• Challenges

– Talent mismatch: Europe & Belgium– Evolutions in HR

• Obstacles– The Talent Roundabout

• (Open) Solutions– Open Badges– “The Belgian Badge Backpack”– Open Data

Agenda

• Innovation• Challenges

– Talent mismatch: Europe & Belgium– Evolutions in HR

• Obstacles– The Talent Roundabout

• (Open) Solutions– Open Badges– “The Belgian Badge Backpack”– Open Data

Agenda

INNOVATION

OPEN

DIVERSITY

MOBILITY

SHARE

• Innovation• Challenges

– Talent mismatch: Europe & Belgium– Evolutions in HR

• Obstacles– The Talent Roundabout

• (Open) Solutions– Open Badges– “The Belgian Badge Backpack”– Open Data

Agenda

TALENTMISMATCH

16 million increase in high skilled jobs

12 million decrease in low skilled jobs

Unemployment rate = 12%

High youth uneployment rate = double!

Belgium – Unemployment rates (Eurostat)

1983

1985

1987

1989

1991

1993

1995

1997

1999

2001

2003

2005

2007

2009

2011

2013

0.0

5.0

10.0

15.0

20.0

25.0

30.0

TOTAL

< 25 years

Evolutions in HR

Toward sustainable HR

Reactive Proactive/ Innovation

1 organization # organizations / broad

Island Stakeholdermanagement

Short term Long term

Job specific Generic

Transferable skills

Talent management

Evolutions in HR

Towards sustainable HR

Top down Bottom up

Employee centred

Employability

Functions Roles

Silo - vertical Process – horizontal

Personnel Departmen HR strategic business partner

Closed system OPEN (HR DATA)

EVIDENCE BASED HRM

TALENT MISMATCHVRAAG ≠ AANBOD

JEUGDWERKLOOSHEID

DIVERSITY

INEQUALITY

ERKENNING EVC

MOBILITEIT INTRA ↓

MOBILITEIT EXTERN ↓

MOBILITEIT INTERNAT ↓

…

• Innovation• Challenges

– Talent mismatch: Europe & Belgium– Evolutions in HR

• Obstacles– The Talent Roundabout

• (Open) Solutions– Open Badges– “The Belgian Badge Backpack”– Open Data

Agenda

ROUNDABOUT

• Innovation• Challenges

– Talent mismatch: Europe & Belgium– Evolutions in HR

• Obstacles– The Talent Roundabout

• (Open) Solutions– Open Badges– “The Belgian Badge Backpack”– Open Data

Agenda

SOLUTIONS

Talent

Demographics

Work life

Change / CultureMobility

Technology

Certification

Talent

Demographics

Work life

Change / CultureMobility

Technology

Certification

talentmobility

certification

Filmpje

LABOUR MARKET

ARBEIDSMARKT

• EVERYTHING!– Test results / (certified) competences / …– Participation in a training / course– Certificates of a training / course– Degrees– Any proof of achievements– Evaluations– Feedback– …

What can we share?

ARBEIDSMARKT

Transport: Open 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

Open Badge

How digital badges work

• Organiz-ations

• Universities• …

Issuer BACKPACKRecipient

• Employment sites

• Networks• …

Bene-ficiary

ISSUE EARN DISPLAY

“Who else is currently using Open Badges?”

INCREASING TALENT MOBILITY

250

INCREASING TALENT MOBILITY

250

INCREASING TALENT MOBILITY

250

Digital Badges: “Unlocking 10 Million Better Futures”

Belgian Badge Backpack: “Imagine”

Inspiration Belgian Badge Backpack (demo)

Business Case: SOCIAL innovation

• Belgian badge backback as a tool – to unlock ALL potential & talent – to certify & share life long

learning (‘don’t be afraid of the mark’)

– to increase talent mobility on the (broad) labour market

• Belgian badge backpack business model– ‘freemium’: free use of basic

services + paid premium services

– Database talent search

Business Case: Open Data into practice

• Belgian badge backback as an ‘enabler’ of open data– E.g. LED

• Belgian Badge Backpack as a government-driven pioneering initiative– “The Entrepreneurial State”– Data governed by government

• Belgian badge backpack as a “sharing platform” for talent mobility– “Add to LinkedIn” (& FB, Twitter, …)– Share with trusted partners

Sneak preview Partners/stakeholders

BELGIAN BADGE BACKPACK

BADGE ISSUERS

Belgian Badge Backpack management committee

• Badge “baking” / issuing badges

• Secure, government-driven Backpack

• Open badges consultancy (design, development, …)

• Access to Belgian Badge Backpack database

DATABASE ‘OWNERS’

• Protected database User-driven open data

– E.g. LED

Sneak preview Jobseekers

BELGIAN BADGE BACKPACK

BADGE EARNERS

• Free backpack / e-portfolio containing formal & non-formal education & skills

• Click & share certified competences with LinkedIn & other SM

• Easily share badges with trusted partners/employers

• Valorize certified competencies

• SELOR WILL “BADGE” & SHARE:– Module 1 certificates / exemptions (40.000)– Language certificates (7640)

What’s in it for me – quick wins

FullSelor iLabs

Belgian Badge Backpack

1.00.1

Think small, then think even smaller

Challenges

Momentum

Critical Mass

ChangePartners

Keep it running

ARBEIDSMARKT

Open sourc(e)ing

sourcing

Business Case: strategy Belgian Gov

“This is why the federal government is working on legislation that makes open data

accessible to citizens, companies and researchers. The exchange of data between

governments and other organisations, will strengthen literally every citizen and

company. Sharing data means strengthening everybody (Leo De Bock)” 

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