Re: [openbadges] Re: Interested in workforce development, soft skills credentialing, and digital badging?

[Steve Lonn]

Hi all,

I'm really intrigued by these ideas.  I'm not as familiar with Carla with the US Ed framework, but it might be a good starting place, as well as leveraging other frameworks like the AAC&U Value Rubrics.  It would also be good to think about different audiences (e.g., undergraduates entering workforce, adult learners retraining, GED learners, etc.) and how "workforce skills" are manifested and developed similarly / differently for those audiences. I also think it's critical to think about how these badges work together as a set of skills that are developed and refined over time and not just 1-time assessments. It would also be important to think about how an institution / organization / department could adopt this framework for their particular context (e.g., does "Exercises Leadership" look different for Engineering vs. Business Colleges?)

Are folks interested in discussing this on a conference call?  Perhaps we could leverage the Badge Alliance Workforce initiative and grow that existing community? If there's interest, I'm happy to setup a WhenIsGood Poll.

Steve

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On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Carla Casilli <ca...@badgealliance.org> wrote:

Hey Kyle + others,

Thanks for suggesting this idea. Certainly, a lot of headway could be made if there was a group effort to undertake an initiative as you've outlined aboev. I was hinting at the possibilities of that by including the US Ed employability skills framework. A significant amount of work has already gone into that framework—and others, too—would be great to make the most of it by developing a badge system that reflects it. And also worth mentioning, a related aspect: this could also allow us to make excellent headway with a significant example of endorsement, too.

Let's do this thing.

C.

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On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Kyle Peck <kp...@psu.edu> wrote:

Hi, All.  

How would you feel about a collaborative effort to develop soft skill badges, and to make the badges “open” in the OER sense — so that others can benefit from the thought, time, and refinement that would go into the definitions, criteria, and assessment tools and processes?  

IOW, are you/we willing to share the contents of the badges broadly, in the spirit of improving soft skills beyond our own domains (to make the world a better place)?

How would (or do) the Creative Commons sharing classifications fit in open badges?  In order to offer it to the world, might a CC level be included in the badge description, or is there a better way? 

Kyle

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On Mar 31, 2015, at 1:08 PM, Carla Casilli <ca...@badgealliance.org> wrote:

Hey Christine,

Would welcome the opportunity to participate in this initiative. I'm seeing a building consensus across the open badges ecosystem that soft skills recognition can be an important and vital conduit into and across education and workforce. There are a number of approaches being implemented in a variety of ways. I'd also point to the US Ed's work on employability skills that can be found at http://cte.ed.gov/employabilityskills/

Looking forward to next steps!

kind regards,

Carla

On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 7:55:18 AM UTC-7, Peter Janzow wrote:

Hi Christine -

We are working with a number of organizations who creating badge systems around softskills generally as well as specific domains ( e.g. critical thinking, GRIT). I'd welcome the opportunity to engage.

Pete


On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 5:38:27 PM UTC-4, Christine Capota wrote:

Hi everyone,

 

The Boston Fed is gathering a small community of partners interested in soft skills credentialing and digital badging. We plan on sending quarterly emails to this group with the hopes of continuing the conversation around workforce development, soft skills credentialing, and digital badging. We see this as bi-directional and we look forward to hearing from our partners about resources, events, or ideas that would help guide our thinking around soft skills credentialing and digital badging.

 

Please let us know if you have this specific interest. If you missed our presentation in today's community call, please visit the Badge Alliance Etherpad site and the Boston Fed's New Vision for Workforce Preparation event website.

 

Thanks,

Christine

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