Open Badges for teacher training at Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK) - a strategic approach to developing ​individual learning and ​organizational competence. Anne-Maria Korhonen, Senior Lecturer, shares her experiences on how to use Open Badges in teacher training and further education for professional teachers.

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Open Badges in HAMK
A strategic approach to developing ​individual
learning and ​organizational competence.
How to use Open Badges in teacher training and
continuing education for professional teachers.
Anne-Maria Korhonen
Jaana Kullaslahti
19th November 2019

2. HAMK in a Nutshell
• 7 363 students in 2017
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree
• 33 degree-awarding programs
• Three study modes:
• 8−16 (full-time studies)
• 18−100 (part-time studies)
• 24/7 (independent studies online)
• Open University studies
• Continuing education
• Professional teacher education
• 450 qualifications annually
• Education export programs
• 631 employees: 286 teaching staff
Bachelor/Master of Business Administration, Bachelor of Construction
Management, Bachelor/Master of Culture and Arts, Bachelor/Master of
Engineering, Bachelor/Master of Health Care, Bachelor/Master of Natural
Resources, Bachelor/Master of Social Services

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Strategic Management
• Open badges are part of the
strategic management system:
they support the implementation
of HAMK strategy
• Badges are also part of the quality
assurance system:
they indicate the competences
developed and the figures
completed

4. Competence
Assessment
• The HAMK competence tree
describes the core competences
needed in the organization
• Data about organizational
competence and strategic development
areas is gained through skills survey
• Every employee completes the survey,
but the competence branches used
vary according to the employee’s role
• Self-assessment (scale 1-5; target value =
3)
• Some of the competences in the tree
are tied to open badges
• Self-assessment value 3 = badge completed

5. Staff Badges
• Individuals’ knowledge and skills lead
into organizational competence
• Badges linked to strategic goals via
competence management and
operational development
• Collaboration, pedagogy in the digital
age, information use, Office 365, data
protection
• Upcoming: Research and development
• Applicants demonstrate or describe
their skills in everyday work
• Flexible and variable system:
individual badges include alternative
sections to choose from
• Training program to support learning

6. Degree Students’
Badges
• Digital Starter Pack for all new
students (Finnish + English)
• Basic ICT skills badges and support
material as self-studies
• RPL: Scouts’ open badge
recognized in Forestry degree
programme

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Open badges in teacher education programs
• Integrated in vocational teacher education program and in
continuing education courses
• Cases
• Oppiminen Online (Learning Online)
• National project: ”Vocational teacher’s open badges”
• EU project: Soft skills for adult educatiors

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Three levels
Some-Noviisi (2 op)
”ICT in education and learning“ (10 badges)
Personal growth
Some-Ekspertti (3 op)
”Mobile devices and blogs in scaffolding learning” (25 badges)
Shared expertice
Some-Kehittäjä (5 op)
”Enriched learning solutions” (45 badges)
Development of vocational eduacation and educational institutions
Master levels
AR VR master
3D modeling
QR codes and augmented reality
Simulaations and pedagogy
Second Life
realXtend
GOOGLE master
Google Drive and documents
Google forms
MOBIILI master
Mobile applications in learning (1 iOS, 2 Android)
Upkeeping mobile devices
BYOD
Oppiminen Online concept
• Continuing education for
teachers by MOOC
• About ICT/digital skills
• Gamification
http://www.oppiminenonline.com/english/

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Learning Online / 30th September 2019

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Project: Vocational teacher’s open badges
• National project, funded by Finnish national agency for education
• All vocational teacher education units involved
• The focus: after the reform of vocational education and training
sector teachers nees new skills
• What are these skills and competences?
• How to apply open badges to accredit the comptences?
• How to apply open badges in education programs for teachers?
• Open badge constellation
https://www.facebook.com/openmerkit/

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Open badge constellation

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Open badge constellation (on 13th
November 2019)
• Guiding students’ learning in workplace
• Assessing competences in workplace
• Training workplace trainers
• Learning methods in workplace
• Guidance in digital environments and collaboration in workplace
environments
• Safety in educational institutions
• Career counseling
• På svenska – in Swedish some other comptences
→ These are only part of vocational teachers’ competences!

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Pilot with vocational student teachers
• Research, development and innovation (RDI)
• RDI comptence areas
• information search
• scientific writing
• working in RDI projects
• Study on Spring 2019 (n=26) results
• Open badges are useful for showing competences online
• Student teachers want to have specific teacher’s comptences recognised by
open badges (such as assessment, working as online teacher)
• The future recommendation is to consider topics of skills demonstrations via
competence themes.
• The case followed a course structure

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SOSTRA
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