Finnish Vocational Teachers’ Competences Made Visible by Open Badges
Korhonen, Anne-Maria; Ruhalahti, Sanna; Niinimäki, Jukka (2020)
Korhonen, Anne-Maria
Ruhalahti, Sanna
Niinimäki, Jukka
North American Business Press
2020
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2020110989715
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2020110989715
Tiivistelmä
After the reform of Finland’s vocational education and training sector, there arose a need to focus on vocational teachers’ new competences. A national project called “Teachers’ Open Badges” explored these competences as instruments of recognition. The open badge-driven learning process was designed for Research, Development & Innovation (RDI) competence development in teacher education programs. The results revealed that student teachers found open badges useful for demonstrating competence for job application purposes. They attached earned open badges to their ePortfolios and shared their badges in
other digital environments.
other digital environments.