1. ePortfolios and
Open Badges:
Visual Pathways to the Future
IMMIGRANT INTEGRATION VERSION
September 2, 2014
Don Presant

2. Learning Agents
ePortfolio, eLearning, eMedia
http://donpresant.ca

3. The long and winding road…
Pre-arrival to full integration

4. The long and winding road…
Pre-arrival to full integration

5. Needs of immigrants
Learning and Recognition
• Learning and experience not recognized
– Foreign universities, experiential work learning not valued
(lack of “Canadian experience”)
• Individualized assets/gaps….but instruction in cohorts
– Language skills, soft skills, workplace culture
– Keeping the job, advancing in career
• Retention issues over long process of integration
– Discouragement, distraction, financial pressures
• Slow progress thru QR hurdles & higher CLB levels
• Handoff gaps between agencies, advisors
– Completely fixed with Correlate? Depth of data?
– Tracking longer term outcomes beyond Y1

6. Research
Information Practices of Immigrants
Nadia Caidi, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, 2009
http://www.slideshare.net/settlementatwork/information-practices-of-immigrants

7. http://blog.qmee.com/qmee-online-in-60-seconds/
The
Read-Write Web
has changed the
Internet from:
• a shopping mall
• an encyclopedia
• a television
To a place where we
personalize our
experience and leave
our footprints behind

8. Key Message:
ePortfolios can be FOR and OF Learning
FOR Learning OF Learning
focused on process focused on product
intrinsic extrinsic
supports learning demonstrates learning
private workshop public shop window
learning environment learning showcase
learning activities learning outcomes
formative assessment summative assessment
lower stakes higher stakes

9. Personal Planning and Learning
Online Locker, Interactive Workbook
• Online archive
– Personal & downloaded documents, links
• Resources for self-directed learning
– Webinars, videos, self-assessment surveys
• Learning plans and tracking tools
– Set goals and track progress to them (Learning Plans)
– Keep records of learning activities over time (CPD)
• Personal journal
– Reflect on goals and alternative futures
– Keep ad hoc “notes to self”, prepare agendas, etc.

10. Employment & related purposes
Demonstrate, assess & improve Human Capital
• Qualification Recognition
– Initial, formative, summative assessment
• Academic recognition
– PLAR/RPL for courses and programs
• Career Development
– Gap analysis, exploration of alternatives, building pathways
• Employment (Web CV)
– Hiring, career advancement, team building tool for employers
• Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
– Tracking ongoing learning activities and reflection on practice
– Recertification

11. In MB: “Brochure”ePortfolio
Manitoba Start

12. www.issbc.org
Helping immigrants build a future in Canada
Employability ePortfolios for
Immigrants: Arrival to
Employment
Cannexus – Ottawa 2014
www.issbc.org

13. Immigrant Services Society of BC
ePortfolio – Cooperative Framework
• LINC and employment staff working together
• Clients develop language, career planning and
job search skills as a package
www.issbc.org
Employment
Facilitator
ESL
Teacher
Skills,
ePortfolio
Evidence

14. Moodle + Mahara
eLearning + ePortfolio
www.issbc.org

15. Mahara
Hands-on workshop

16. Contribution to PLAR
 Previously, simple referral to Employment Facilitator
Now provide:
– Evidence of
hard skills
experience
language ability
soft skills
– More skills to better represent themselves to employers and
professional associations
www.issbc.org

17. Professional Pages – Learner Owned
www.issbc.org

18. www.issbc.org
Resume
Audio
Intro
Past
Projects
Certificates
Publications

19. ePortfolios: leveraging the “e”
The “Flexible Binder” for the 21st Century
• Information Management capabilities
– Collecting, archiving, sharing, multiple versioning
– Quick links to cross-reference evidence
– Accessible multimedia with free Web 2.0 tools
– Align to frameworks, rubrics, track learning over time
• Social learning, digital identity
– Building professional profile, Personal Learning network
• Digital technology skills, Internet literacy
– Demonstrated by and within the ePortfolio
• Learning and collaboration integration
– Online research: documents, networks
– Easy to add comments, edit, mentor, coach

20. New service: savvyfolio.net
Multi-institution ePortfolio community
Professional Body Workplace Trainer
College
Employer Industry Sector Body
University
Adult Learning Centre
Employability Agency

21. Digital credentials FOR and OF learning
Micro-credentialing
using Open Badges

22. Brief introduction
http://www.savvyfolio.net/user/don/overview-open-badges

23. Open Badges and Badge Passports
“Micro credentials in a modular eportfolio”
Richard Wyles, Totara LMS at MaharaUK12
http://maharauk.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=117

24. A picture + descriptive words…
Simple data structure for easy sharing
bit.ly/ePIC2013_Belshaw

25. Badges in Action
Demonstration

26. Origins
• Badges, medals,
ribbons since
pre-Roman
times
• Military, Boy
Scouts
http://jproc.ca/rrp/apend_l_trade_designators_1960.html
• Public recognition rewarding positive
(desired) behaviour

27. Recent corporate trends
Social media, gamification for productivity
tech.co/gamify-your-new-hire-onboarding-process-with-
mindtickle-2013-02
http://www.tibbr.com/

28. Gamification and engagement
Air Canada
earnyourwings.aircanada.com
114,716 registrations
$26.2 million added revenue
ROI >500%
t.co/ZQEjrL0BxE

29. Gamification and math skills
Khan Academy: Internal Badges for Learning

30. Gamification of physical reality
Foursquare
socialmediaexaminer.com

31. Recent productivity trends
Social enterprise and process gamification
joshbersin.com/2011/07/17/badges-swarm-the-internet-and-soon-intranet/
http://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/connect

32. Gamification of Onboarding
New employee orientation

33. Enterprise Gamification
Consulting overview
“One trend we are seeing is
enterprises seeking to instill a more
proactive attitude about career
development among the workforce.”
Download PDF

34. Gamification of language learning
Duolingo – scaffolded text translation
youtu.be/WyzJ2Qq9Abs
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duolingo

35. Gamification of language learning
busuu.com – Farmville for language?
Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR):

36. Gamification of integration
Citizenship course for Youth (Ontario)

37. Open Badges
A learning ecosystem
http://openmatt.org/
Goal
#openbadgesMOOC

38. Open Badges
Making learning visible
• Progress markers
– Motivating learners, supporting
advisors
• Learning pathways
– Granular, incremental, flexible
• Visual branding
– Issuers and learners
• Online trust system
– Demonstrate skills & capabilities

39. Badge Pathways
Mozilla Discover (Gates funding)
http://discover.openbadges.org/

40. Pearson Acclaim (VUE)
If Pearson are getting into badges.…
Acclaim’s unique
approach…is to work with
academic institutions and
high-stakes credentialing
organizations to offer
diplomas, certificates and
other professional
credentials as Open Badges.
blog.youracclaim.com/

41. Books@Work
College-led study groups in workplaces
http://www.booksatwork.org/the-bookswork-badge/

42. Badging Health Professionals
Continuing Professional Development
http://www.paincommunitycentre.org/cpd/badges

43. Benefits
Open Badges & Digital Certification
• Visually efficient and appealing
– Fun, motivating to earn (gamification)
– Visualize progress for advising
– Automatically / manually awarded
• Individual learning pathways
– Modular, flexible, diverse, portable, shareable
– Personal goal setting, achievement for self-directed learning
– Builds confidence
– Blend and ladder from multiple sources in badge passports & ePortfolios
– Progress in incomplete programs can still be recognized and recombined
• Transparent, “trustable”
– Criteria, evidence, issue/expiry date
– Ongoing connection to issuer
– Report outcomes
– Issuer is validated and branded by the badges it issues, along with 3rd party
endorsement (coming)

44. Badges and Immigrants
Ideas for EAL (to be validated)
• FORMATIVE
– Portfolio Based Language Assessment (PBLA) progress tracking
– Course activities and assignments
– Self-directed learning achievements
– # books/articles read, docs written, grammar/vocab quizzes (self-assessments)
& exercises, journal reflections and other portfolio inventory tasks completed
– Recognize/aggregate achievements from external language programs
• Rosetta Stone, Tell Me More, busuu.com, etc.
– Enhance with Essential Skills, workplace culture learning
• Digital Technology, Working with Others, problem solving, etc.
– Real world badge “missions”
– # “stretch” assignments in the real world (e.g. conversations with strangers)
• SUMMATIVE
– Internal: CLB levels in progress reports: e.g. Reading: Developing 7
(linked to evidence as appropriate)
– External: IELTS scores?

45. Badges and Immigrants
Ideas for Employability (to be validated)
• FORMATIVE
– Workshop program/job search milestones, achievements
• CV, cover letter, elevator speech, employability portfolio
– Real world badge “missions”
– # “stretch” assignments in the real world (e.g. # cold calls, # informational
interviews…)
• SUMMATIVE
– For service providers and funders
• Learner achievements: CVs, interviews, placements, hirings, etc.
– For Employers
• Essential Skills assessments (TOWES, Prove It, Microsoft, etc.)
– Computer, Document Use, etc.
• Job-related language assessments (e.g. IELTS)
• Courses/workshops taken
• Affiliations (e.g. Toastmasters, professional associations)
• Volunteer service, other experiential learning
• Summary credentials (“work ready”, etc. if available)

46. Badging Kirkpatrick
For EAL (to be validated)
Kirkpatrick Level Affordances & Indicators
5: ROI (Phillips) Badge reports of outcomes linked to budgets
4: Results Badge trails, aligned to CLB, by date?
Badges linked to PBLA evidence.
Badges from subsequent language learning.
NB: Follow-up and learner cooperation required
3: Transfer Badge collections: sequencing, laddering, clustering
Badges from multiple sources curated in badge passports &
channeled to goals
Badges in eportfolios enhanced with reflection
2: Learning Badges with embedded skills outcomes
1: Reaction Visual appeal, gamification, completion

47. Badging Kirkpatrick
For employability (to be validated)
Kirkpatrick Level Affordances & Indicators
5: ROI (Phillips) Badge reports on longer term employment outcomes
4: Results Badges for interviews, placements?
Badges for permanent hires (in their field)?
Badges for retention: still working after 1 year?
NB: Follow-up and learner cooperation required
3: Transfer Badge collections: sequencing, laddering, clustering
Badges from multiple sources curated in badge passports &
channeled to goals
Badges in eportfolios enhanced with reflection
2: Learning Badges with embedded skills outcomes
1: Reaction Visual appeal, gamification, activity completion

48. Badges for PD?
Ideas for EAL and Employment Professionals
• Conference badges
– Participant, Presenter, “Networker”, “Reflector”, etc.
• Online community badges
– As above, other activities (e.g. link sharing) + peer assessments
• Non-formal learning
– Workshops, lectures, ConEd programs, Special Interest Groups, reading
logs, MOOCs
• Awards and recognition
– Including “honourable mentions” and short lists
• Professional affiliations and volunteer service
… arranged/curated in a professional eportfolio or “badge passport”
with other evidence

49. Badges for EAL PD
English Online
Criteria: Attended webinar
training/preparation session,
presented online, contributed to
the resource page and discussion
thread)
Evidence: <link to webinar
recording>
Upcoming for 2015: “Contributor”
myenglishonline.ca/for-teachers/realize/

50. Open Badge Factory
Centralized badge management
bit.ly/ePIC2013_Rousselle

51. Open Badge Factory
Detailed Reports

52. Open Badge Factory
Badge Application

53. Features and Benefits
openbadgefactory.com
• Current:
– Controlled access for organizations
– Controlled roles within organizations
• Creator, Issuer, Administrator
– Detailed reports
– Badge applications
– Milestone badges
• Level up…
– Earner evidence field
• Coming (Sep-Dec 2014):
– Badge Passports
• Private/public badges, badge collections, mobile display
• Multilingual badges
• Issuer community features: sharing and endorsement of badges

54. Link to presentation:
bit.ly/openbadges4immigrants
don@learningagents.ca
Web: learningagents.ca
Twitter: donpresant
ePortfolio: donpresant.ca