REVEAL
Programme: Erasmus+ KA2: Strategic Partnership for ADULT EDUCATION
Reference: 2020-1-FR01-KA204-080054
Start: 01/09/2020
End: 31/08/2023
REVEAL builds on Local Recognition Networks’ existing and emerging practices with the support of technologies, Open Badges, open data and their application to social innovation to remove barriers to recognition, encouraging new learning and career pathways based on real life experience with a focus on adults with low levels of formal education in, or expected to be, in precarious job situations.
Whether for leisure or work pursuits, these LRNs are places where individuals develop a wide range of skills, knowledge, attitudes and values that could be activated beyond those places. But to do so, they would need to be recognised beyond the limits of LRNs.
- To provide support to existing informal and formal networks to become active Learning Recognition Networks, i.e. recognising the learning that takes place within in a way that makes it visible beyond
- To explore the potential of loosely coupling (informal) ‘recognition’ and (formal) ‘validation’ as a means to remove current barriers to recognition
- Local Recognition Networks (LRN) Modelling: identification and recognition of existing LRN to formalise their practices.
- iREVEAL: activating and supporting Learning Recognition Networks with “agile” development of an “Open Access” Open Badge environment
- REVEAL Piloting: activation of a number of LRNs
- REVEAL Exploitation Pack. A range of resources supporting the emergence and operation of LRNs.
- REVEAL White Paper.
Results
- Removed barriers to recognition, to “reveal” the talents of competencies by addressing the following questions:
– Processes: how to overcome the constraints of current formal recognition processes?
– Technologies: how to overcome the constraints of current technologies? - Explored potential of “Open Access” Open Badge environment, i.e. the potential (with its pros and cons) of not forcing people to create an account on an Open Badge platform (e.g. Badgr, Open Badge Passport) in order to issue, collect, display and exploit Open Badges.
Co-Experts
- Adults with low levels of formal education: early school leavers, long-term unemployed, women back to work, migrants.
- Local Recognition Networks (LRNs): professional, civic or social network, informal or formal (club, association, business, trade union, etc.)
Keywords
Open badge, Local Recognition Network, informal learning.
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