Digitally Signed Credentials - Smart Motivation with Stackability
▶Summary
The DISCO SMS project aims to enhance education and training by focusing on soft skills recognition by creating methodology that combines them with Open Badge technology. It proposes a trainer and...
▶Objectives
The DISCO SMS project aims to enhance education and training by focusing on soft skills recognition by creating methodology that combines them with Open Badge technology. It proposes a trainer and VET teacher training course that utilizes gamification techniques using digital open badges to recognize and reward these soft skills in a visible, transferable, and multilingual manner, supporting learners in a diverse social and professional environment.
▶Activities
Key features of the project include - the further development of the DIScoPLAYER badge issuing portal by introduction of Stackable Digital Badges with standardized multilingual metadata, and creation of student digital repositories to display and gain endorsements for their achievements. - development of a training of trainers that combines these technologies with methodologies aiming to motivate and keep students from dropping out of education and offering them tangible proof of their skills.
▶Impact
A 30 hour online course and downloadable trainers' and teachers’ guidebook with 3 modules on gamification, on how to recognize soft skills, and on interoperability and stackability, including scenarios covering all educational sectors, in English, Hungarian, Latvian, Spanish, Greek, Lithuanian, designed to allow for self-learning. The material supported with a running and operational OB 2.1 compatible Displayer certified portal with enhanced stackability functions and services.