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Issue 1 (2017)
the VLE, and there may be some pilots about to
start).
46 (37.4%) responded that they were in the
exploratory stage. This corresponded to the original
survey that had 44% with the same response. It is
interesting that 39 (32%) respondents either have a
pilot about to start or are already using open
badges with one academic group (figure 9).
Have you discovered any barriers to
the implementation of Open Badges?
Other 8.8%
20
Security of badges 4%
There is a large difference in this data when
comparing Europe against the UK and the rest of
the world. When comparing this question across
geographic demographics we can see that in
Europe there are 24 (59%) institutions categorising
themselves as in an exploratory stage, while only
15 while only 15 (25%) in the United Kingdom and
(32%) in the rest of the world would describe
themselves similarly (figure 10).
9
Validity if badges 13.7%
31
Terminology around…
26
Technology is not able to…
19
Need to see more…
49
Badges concept needs…
41
Lack of Senior…
0
31
10 20 30 40 50 60
Figure 11: Barriers to Implementation
Purpose of Open Badges
The initial survey asked what the respondents were
planning to use Open Badges for. It was surprising
that the main response was staff CPD, with
‘academic’ lower by 8 responses (Fig. 4).
This question was asked again in the main survey
and staff CPD had moved to third in the list with 43
(29%) responses for skills development. Academic
achievement was the next most popular selection
with 30 (20%) responses (Fig 12).
If you have awarded any badges,
what have they been awarded
for?
Figure 10: Badge Implementation: Global
Comparison
Barriers to the implementation of Open Badges
A number of institutions seem concerned about the
security and validity of Open Badges (Fig.11), and I
would highlight the recent work to improve this by
the Badgechain 18 community who are trying to
integrate Blockchain 19 with Open Badges.
0.3
0.25
0.2 15.20%
0.15
0.1
0.05
28.50%
19.90%
15.90%
8.60%
9.30%
2.60%
0
18
https://medium.com/badge-chain
19
https://www.blockchain.com/
Figure 12: Purpose of Badge Implementation.
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