Badge Badge is a technological open standard, initiated by Mozilla Foundation (OBI - Open Badges Infrastructure) and developed by an active international community. The Open Badge standard is used all over the world in the most different organizations.Open Badges look like images, readable by every computer, but those images also contain metadata about the competencies that each specific badge represents and about the person that owns it. Every badge is unique and, if read by a system that supports OBI, tells the story of its owner: - name and surname,
- the date of acquisition,
- the competency that it represents, in which way this competency has been acquired and assessed,
- who assessed it and, in case, for how long that competency is valid. All verifiable in real time from every system supporting OBI.
An Open Badge has a strong communication power due to the visual component represented by the image. An Open Badge is portable because any system supporting the standard can read its metadata: thus it can be verified by calling upon the platform who issued it. |
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Bestr Italian digital credentialing platform to valorize competencies growing in the higher education system and connect them with employers.
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Blockcerts Blockcerts is an open standard designed by MIT Media Lab to digitally express a certificate and record it on a blockchain, so that it is always verifiable without any need to call for the issuing organization or platform. The Blockcerts standard builds on the Open Badge 2.0 standard and connects it to blockchain technologies. Bestr writes its Blockcerts on the public Ethereum blockchain, using hashing and merkle-tree systems to ensure the lowest number of transactions and the highest level of privacy. Bestr is the first italian platform implementing the Blockcerts standard. Thus Bestr becomes a Digital Credentialing System, where titles and competencies can be represented with the most apt digital tool. Blockcerts are available on Bestr since 2019, you can see all the issuing organizations in the Blockcerts Public Key Registry |
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Blockcerts Public Key Registry Since 2023 Università degli Studi di Torino has a Public Key |
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Learner A learner is always learning, always growing, always going forward on a professional path.
The life-long & life-wide learner is the core of Bestr at the university or on the job, at school or for fun, the learner gets competencies continuously - on Bestr they can be valorized and certified, independently from the learning context, as the learner meets companies and trainers who value them. |
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Lifelong learning Lifelong learning or LLL ( permanent training or permanent learning or continuous learning) is an intentional individual process that aims at the acquisition of roles and skills and which involves a relatively stable change over time. This process has the objective of modifying or replacing learning that is no longer adequate concerning new social or work needs, in the professional or personal field.
The term "lifelong learning" means education throughout life, from birth to death, that education that begins even before school and continues until after retirement. |
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Lifewide learning (education and training that embrace all aspects of life), which underlines the concept that training can take place in all areas, and at any stage of existence.
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Valorize Bestr highlights competencies that students develop for their degree: unbundle the degree and make it clear what competencies it implies.
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