ePIC 24.-26.10.2018 Paris, France

1. Teachers' Badges -
piloting a national
ecosystem
MSci, PhD Researcher Sanna Brauer
Oulu University of Applied Sciences
School of Professional Teacher Education

2. Teachers’ Profession and
Competence Development in Finland!
• Vocational teacher education (60 ects qualification program)
grants a teacher’s diploma for working in vocational schools,
universities of applied sciences, adult education centres, liberal
adult education units and upper secondary schools as well as in
comprehensive schools.
• A general entrance requirement for vocational teachers in
secondary and tertiary education is vocational academic degree
and a three-year work experience in the respective field. The
assessment and decision of the employer might also affect on the
entry qualifications. For subject teachers the entrance requirement
is master’s degree.

3. Digital pedagogy combines
theory with practice, and
making with thinking, aiming to
foster creativity, play and
problem solving among
learners (Spiro, 2013).!
Digital Pedagogical
Competencies!
Digital pedagogy means applying new technologies to teaching
and learning in online, hybrid and face-to-face learning
environments. !

4. SoMe-Novice = Ope.fi I!
SoMe-Expert = Ope.fi II!
SoMe-Developer = Ope.fi III!
100%!
70%!
10%!

5. From participation awards to
addictive learning and
competence-based assessment
Canva: Outi Loikkanen
DESIGN

6. Teacher´s badges
The aim of the Open merkit (teacher's badges) project is to create and
establish a national digital badges system to support the recognition and
acknowledging of professional competences of vocational teachers
during their teacher studies as well as their entire professional career.
www.hamk.fi/openmerkit
Funded by Ministry of
Education and Culture
Piloting a National Ecosystem
2017-2019

7. - a shared administrative model which is
applicable across educational sectors.
- a shared structure, model, and awarding
criteria for badges.
- a quality assurance model.
- a piloted and implemented badges
collection for digital competencies.
- shared guidelines for future expansion of the
badges system.
- guidelines for graphical design
- a shared network-based process model
- a national badges portal
- guidelines for resourcing, responsibilities,
assessment and guidance.
The
system to
be
created
will
consist of

8. Chips For Game Skills -project focuses on identifying the
needs of the game industry and develop the education on
the basis of them. The goal is to create a common evaluation
criteria – a digital open badge system – which clarifies the
definition and understanding of the learning objectives in the
games industry.

9. ’Work-Integrated
Pedagogy in
Higher Education’
(WORKPEDA)
Identification and
Recognition of
Desired
Competences
Oulu

10. DEMO: https://invis.io/8XNRS737TF9

11. Competence Mapping and Self-
Evaluation Services
Digital Learning Resources
Application Services
Career and Study Guidance services
Service
Person
Special
Education
Teacher
Assessment
Services
Career
Counselor
Workplace
Instructor
Coach
Teacher
Early
Childhood
Educator
Study
Counselor
Digital Learning and Competence Development Services and
Actors - Learner`s Perspec9ve
Work
Community
Principal
Family/
Guardian
Planning Services for Competence Development
Continuum and Learning
Versatile Digital Learning
Environments and Platforms
Identification and Recognition of
Competences
Feedback Services
Special Education Services
Recognition of Prior Learning
Services
Learning and Competence
Development Services and
Applications
#AuroraAI programme Finland
– life-event ecosystems:
Competence Excellence Network

12. Aurora AI
• Finland wants to build a human-
centric society where public services
are proactively offered to citizen in a
personalized manner.
• The goal is to empower individuals to
take care of them and their closebys’
holistic wellbeing (Stiglitz 2010).
• The key concepts that are currently
being explored are emergent network
of digital services, developing service
clusters around personal life-events,
enabling self-organizing ecosystems
of public agencies and private
services, and incentives that
accelerate self-organization and
scaling.

13. Networking !
!
sanna.brauer@oamk.fi
h/ps://www.linkedin.com/in/sannabrauer
h/ps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sanna_Brauer