EDC & Open Badges workshop in Learning Impact Europe 2024

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Xavi Aracil-Diaz
30 September 2024 - updated 1 year ago

Hi everyone,

Next week, from October 9th to October 13th, is 1EdTech's Learning Impact 2024 (https://www.1edtech.org/event/europe/2024). One of its featured sessions is a technical workshop on how to integrate an EDC with an Open Badge.

We will show the differences between both models and a technical approach for co-existence in the same credential https://web.cvent.com/event/7fa940bb-8b8e-42f0-b02e-baf9e909ff1c/websitePage:b02ad9d9-260b-4530-bdd2-b863dbc3921f?session=a095db2d-5234-471e-b3c0-48e5ec15902b. 

Looking forward to see you there

 

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Submitted by Ildiko Mazar on Mon, 30/09/2024 - 17:14

I'm really looking forward to this session next Friday with you, Xavi and Anthony Camilleri. Anyone else from the ELM community joining us? 

Leave a comment, so we can plan to meet up before the session.

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Submitted by Ildiko Mazar on Mon, 14/10/2024 - 22:21

Those who were interested in this workshop, but missed the conference, you can find the slides here. Please feel free to leave any follow-up questions in a comment, so we can have a transparent conversation available to the whole community. 

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Submitted by Ada GIANNATELLI on Mon, 21/10/2024 - 10:15

I read the slides with great interest and I have some operational questions referring to the case of a partnership of institutions which uses ECCOE / ELM descriptors for MOOCs issuing OpenBadges, but which would like to prepare from now in case there is a transition from OB to EDC in the future.

  • Is one of the aims of the slides to show how to currently transition from OB to EDC smoothly, provided that OBv3 and ELMv3 data models are still not interoperable, nor will they be in the near future?
  • Any “micro-credential” issued as OpenBadge is stored in the Europass Library, but separately from the EDC Wallet, and it is not possible to for instance directly issue badges to the Europass wallet unless we “transition” from OB to EDC, right?
  • As ELM is the primary tool to issue micro-credentials, data about learning provider is richer than in OpenBadges (slide 8) but this is not a problem when issuing “micro-credentials”  through OB, right?
  • The same for the learner’s identifier, but to ensure a possible smooth transition in the future from OB-based to EDC micro-credentials which data does the OB have to contain (e.g. full name, · date, and place of birth, · fiscal number)?
  • Slide 8, OB descriptor: “provenBy / partial - Assessment Extension” what does it imply in terms of the “corresponding” ELM descriptor?
  • Slide 11 “protected term”: what does it imply in terms of ELM descriptors? 

 

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Submitted by Xavi Aracil-Diaz on Thu, 31/10/2024 - 16:40

Hi Ada,

  • OB v3 and ELM v3 are different ways to express a credential. They are currently not interoperable. The slides' main aim is to show how to have a credential that conforms simultaneously to both models.
  • Currently Europass only accepts credentials following EDC (ELM), so it's not possible to store a credential following Open Badges. However, if a credential is both an Open Badge and an EDC, it can be stored in Europass, as the credential is an EDC.
  • It is not. Furthermore, you can extend Open Badges' Profile entity (the entity describing the credential issuer, like the Learning Provider in ELM) to add additional data.
  • The only required data regarding the learner in Open Badges is an identifier. Open Badges doesn't require any personal data, although you can add it.
  • provenBy and partial are ELM terms related to learning achievements. An analogy to Open Badges could be using the Open Badges Assessment Extension to add the same meaning to the learning achievement.
  • protected term is related to JSON-LD, not ELM. You can protect term definitions in a JSON-LD context to prevent its redeclaration by another context.

I know some initiatives are out there to map Open Badges with ELM. One of them are within the Digital Credentials for EU project (https://www.dc4eu.eu).