You find out what Open Badges are (and how they are made portable, stackable & verifiable with JSON-LD) and get an overview of the OB community, e.g. Cities of Learning who use badges to promote learning within cities.
The Be Badges platform, an initiative by Selor, will be presented.
Vincent Van Malderen, general manager Jobpunt, presents a use case of badges at the City of Ghent and his views on the value of badges for the labor market.
This talk also sets the birth of a new working group.
Bert Jehoul is founder of the Open Badges Belgium working group and recent board member of Open Knowledge Belgium. He works at Selor (Selection Office for the Belgian Government) where he leads an innovation-Lab and helped initiating the Be Badges platform. Bert has a background in Psychology and Psychometrics and is an enthusiastic user of the statistical software R.
Strategic Support - Founder & Lead of Innovation Lab
SELOR
Vincent Van Malderen is currently managing director at Jobpunt Vlaanderen, thé reference for personnel & organizational services for the Flemish public sector. Until 2015 Vincent was Product & Innovation Manager at Selor (Selection Office for the Belgian Government) where he was project manager and (co-)founder of the Be Badges platform. His main interests are Innovations in HR, Evidence-based HR, talent mobility & Open badges. Vincent obtained Master's degrees in Clinical Psychology and in Comparative Cultural Studies at Ghent University.
Managing Director
Jobpunt Vlaanderen
