The challenge For many years Finnish education organisations ranging from public schools to edtech companies have struggled in entering the African continent and getting engaged in meaningful proejcts there. The often heard explanation is that the lack of success is dues to lack of funding from Finland and also the Read more…
The challenge The Finnish lifelong learning foundation implemented an interesting project “Media Literacy for Sustainable Society” in Palestine. During the project the know-how of the local media educators was updated, and a group of new media educators was trained and equipped with the latest teaching methods and materials. Towards the Read more…
The use of Open Badges in professional development of teachers is an extension to traditional teacher professional development initiatives. Existing teacher ICT Skills frameworks set a clear baseline for developing skills criteria and professional development goals for teachers globally. At the same time Badges support self-directed learning and micro certification Read more…
Challenge The Aalto University Sustainable Metals Processing Master’s programme has not manages to attract enough students for the past years, which is a shame given the relevancy of the the subjects studies in the final years. Unfortunately students are not well enough informed of what the study programme consists of Read more…
The year 2020 surprised and shocked education systems on all corners of the world, from North to South and from West to East. The digitalisation of education, which has been a part of education strategies everywhere became the new normal practically overnight. In Africa, various actors have tried or are Read more…
Using Open Badges in professional development of teachers is an extension to traditional teacher professional development initiatives. Existing teacher ICT Skills frameworks set a clear baseline for developing skills criteria and professional development goals for teachers globally. At the same time Badges offer an interesting new paradigm to self-directed learning Read more…
EdTalk organised an interesting webinar on the future of learning with special focus on winning tools and practices of online learning. During the webinar I discussed the overall change learning has gone through and in what to consider when planning distance and/or eLearning. I shortly explain the changing role of Read more…
Open Badge Factory Academy webinars are starting for this fall. Join the webinar on October 9 at 2pm BST where Satu Järvinen is presenting on the topic “Badges as signposts for self directed learning”. Read more and join us at https://openbadgefactory.com/academy/?direct=portfolioModal-2018-10-09-webinar
This is nice, Open Recognition Week recognised Satu and SkillSafari for the work done to promote badging and create learning solutions for Africa!
The Open Recognition movement and their ideas are very much in line with SkillSafari badging ideology. As they describe themselves: (more…)
SkillSafari and the Institute of Accounting & Economic Development (IAED) in Namibia have signed a cooperation agreement. The purpose of the cooperation is to enhance the quality of education through professional development of teachers. SkillSafari and IAED will join forces in bringing the SkillSafari badging approach to Namibia. (more…)
Last summer, we conducted a badging project in Tunisia in collaboration with CNTE (Centre National des Technologies en Education), a government body in charge of all ICT related matters in education in Tunisia. The purpose of the project was to see if badging brings added value to the services offered by the CNTE and how teachers respond to this new approach. (more…)
These first months of 2018 have been packed with all sorts of actions required to get a new company on its feet. That work is not over yet, but fortunately some hurdles have been crossed and things are shaping up. One big concern is, that no matter how fast I want things to proceed, they still take time. Getting things started is like a solving a big puzzle, one piece at a time.