EDEN – EU projects and forthcoming annual

conferenceDigital Skills and Competences Working

Group2nd meeting, 28th-29th April 2016

Deborah ArnoldEDEN Vice-President

Communication@DebJArnold

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“The smart network for the professional community

and a professional community for smart learning”

The most extensive and established professional network in open and distance

learning Founded in 1991171 institutional members852 individual membersOver 20 agreements with related

organisations64 EU projects since 1997ERASMUS+ Civil Society Cooperation

Operating Grant since 2015 3

Core missions• Policy and feasibility studies• Professional development – EDEN “Academy”• Innovative projects

To support our members and

partners in their endeavours to

modernise education in Europe

• Annual Conferences• Network of Academics and Professionals• Disseminating practice, project results and

policy

To facilitate the exchange of

knowledge and practice in all sectors

and levels of education

• Support for early-stage researchers• The European Journal of Open, Distance and

e-Learning EURODL• Bi-annual Research workshops

To further research in the field

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Contribution to EU Programmes

Comprehensive strategic projects Raising stakeholder awareness of EU

policies Boosting stakeholder participation in

E&T Exploiting the wide-scale expertise of

NAP members Networking and knowledge-base

building Promoting excellence and innovation Supporting a new generation of

educators Recognising and valuing competences Evaluation and dissemination of results

ODS ARMAZEG Carer+ EMPORT E-SOLVE VM-PASS STAY-IN EduWorks Revive-VET

POERUP eLene2learn VISIR NEST MOVE-ON SEVAQ+ EquNet Learnovation eTTCampus

eLene4work

OBN OpenPROF D-Transform t-MAIL DigiSkills TALOE LACE LeHo

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EDEN’s EU projects

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Open Badge Network Charter Advocate the adoption of Mozilla Open Badge standard across

Europe to recognise learning achievements gained in variety of contexts.

Provide information, guidelines and use cases to enable the widest possible adoption of Open Badges across policy, education, employers, service providers and individuals.

Advocate for and enable social inclusion by ensuring marginalised groups are able to gain recognition for all their skills and achievements, supporting their personal and professional progression.

Raise the value and profile of informal and non-formal learning taking place outside of formal education.

Support on-going development of Mozilla’s open source backpack and other open badging tools, to ensure end users’ data is portable between systems and retained by the individual.

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eLene4work - Learning to Learn Soft Skills and Digital Soft Skills for employability

Soft skills linked to employability, especially young people entering the job marketEuropean Commission, 2012 ; European Economic and Social Committee, 2010, Deloitte, 2011 ; SFOL,2012 ; IUL, CRUI, & Centromarca, 2012 ; Manpower Group, 2012.

By 2020, 90% of jobs will require digital skills

74% of universities consider they prepare their graduates well for the world of work, but only 38% of students and 35% of employers.McKinsey (2014). ‘Education to Employment, getting Europe’s youth into work’, ILO Global Employment Trend.

This project has been funded by the Erasmus + programme of the European Union.

eLene4work - Learning to Learn Soft Skills and Digital Soft Skills for employability

Little consensus:

Different terms: Soft skills, wicked skills Knight & Page (2007) Transversal skills, non-technical skills, 21st century skills

Different understandings: Digital skills ≠ computing skills Work-related competences ≠ Transversal competences

Ex. community management

Open for debate: Can the so-called ‘personal skills’ be learnt? Is it the role of Higher Education to teach soft skills?

This project has been funded by the Erasmus + programme of the European Union.

eLene4work - Learning to Learn Soft Skills and Digital Soft Skills for employability

self-evaluation tool +

orientation• Personal Journal• CV• ePortfolio

Comparative Analysis

• Policy• Literature review• Initiatives

• Students + young workers

• Teachers + HR managers

This project has been funded by the Erasmus + programme of the European Union.

eLene4work – the soft skills framework

Comparative analysis + focus groups + link with DIGCOMPSocial (inter-personal) Communication

Teamwork Conflict management Negotiation

Personal (intra-personal) Leadership Self-evaluation Adaptability and flexibility

Methodolological Learning to learn Analytical skills Creativity and innovation Problem solving

Digital Information and data-processing (Digital) communication (Digital) content creation (Digital) problem solving

This project has been funded by the Erasmus + programme of the European Union.

Spotlight on two EDEN initiatives• Short training courses

embedded in EDEN conferences• Fully online and blended courses

combining the best of online and face to face (e.g. MOOCs + workshops)

• Contributing the the sustainability of EU projects

EDEN “Academy”

• EDEN Fellow and Senior Fellow awards

• Young Scholar Award• Best Research Paper Award• Best Practice Initiative• Open Badges

Recognition schemes

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EDEN 2016 Annual Conference

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www.eden-online.org/2016_budapest/

Keynotes: Susan Aldridge Danny Arati Paul Bacsich Tony Bates Cristobal Cobo Melissa Highton János Józsa Micheal G. Moore Yves Punie Antonio Teixiera Lesley Wilson

At #EDEN16WG DSC Interactive

workshopD. Hodson, D. Arnold, S. Kucina and…

EU Policy on digital skills and competences

Learning café for participants to: exchange on initiatives relating to selected

themes from the WG DSC mandate make their own policy recommendations

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Thank you!

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Deborah ArnoldDeborah.Arnold@u-bourgogne.fr

@DebJArnold

www.eden-online.org

www.eLene4work.euwww.openbadgenetwork.com