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Badge

A badge An Open Badge is a digital piece of evidence with which a student demonstrates that he or she has certain skills or knowledge. The badge also contains information about the issuing authority and the period of validity. The student can display his or her badge in the form of an icon in a digital environment, for example on LinkedIn. Students can collect and combine badges from different institutionsvalidated indicator of an accomplishment, skill, quality or interest that can be earned in various learning environments. They comply with the Open Badges Specification and are shareable across the web. Each Open Badge is associated with an image and information about the badge, its recipient, the issuer, and any supporting evidence. Students can earn badges from different institutions and can display their badge collection in an online environment like LinkedIn.

Blended learning

Blended learning is a mixture of face-to-face and ICT-based educational activities, learning materials and tools. Both types of learning activities are a substantial part of education; ideally they reinforce each other. The goal is to develop education that uses ICT to enable effective, efficient and flexible learning, with an increase in learning efficiency and student / teacher satisfaction as a result.

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Digital Learning Environment

The DLO DLE is the digital learning environment: the whole of systems or applications that supports education and learning. Students and teachers use the DLO DLE for many different educational activities such as communication, organizing education and exchanging content. The DLO DLE is a subset of the DLWE.

Digital testing and assessment

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The education catalog is the central, generic facility in which the total education modules or products are recorded. These educational products are described by means of a collection of metadata and refer to the place in the qualification structure (taxonomy) to which they relate. The exam activities and products can also be recorded in the education catalog.

Educational services beyond connectivity

The responding organisation provides additional services to educational institutions beside connectivity (fibre, network, wifi, eduroam). These services for example could include: learning management systems (LMS), electronic learning environments (ELE), digital learning environments (DLE), EduID, Blended learning, Badges, digital testing and assessment, learning analytics (LA), online learning, weblecture, transnational education...etc. 

EduID

An eduID is an identity owned by a student or researcher, not bound to a specific institution and usable in the research and education domain. It can be used for services or administrative processes delivered by institutions other than their home institution. It is primarily focussed focused on enabling student mobility and flexible education across institutional boundaries. Furthermore, an eduID makes it easier for cooperating institutions to recognize a student and it supports life-long learning use cases.

Electronic learning environment (

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ELE)

Electronic learning environment (ELOELE) can relate to specific digital learning applications (such as Blackboard or Moodle) and to the whole of digital applications for education. When it comes to one application, the term learning management system (LMS) is also used. When it comes to the whole of applications, we prefer the term digital learning environment (DLODLE).

Flexible education

Flexible education is education that offers students freedom of choice. This allows students, for example, to attend time and place independent education, at their own pace and according to their own planning. Teaching methods and teaching materials can also be offered flexibly. Flexible education can be related to what students learn (substantive freedom of choice, education appropriate to their background) and how students learn (at their own time and place and at their own pace, on their own level and manner).

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Infrastructure for open learning materials supports the mutual sharing of educational material by students and teachers. The infrastructure consists of various parts:

Educational repositories for storage and sharing of open learning materials. It is not necessary to store learning materials in one repository. Institutions can organize their own educational repository.

A harvester for the collection and search of learning materials. A prerequisite for making it searchable is that all linked repositories comply with national and international standards, such as NL-LOM and OAI-PMH, and that the learning materials are provided with metadata that systematically describe the learning materials.

A search portal for open learning materials. To be able to search in the various repositories of universities and colleges, and to search for other national and international collections, a search portal is needed. A search portal can enable the assessment of high quality learning materials that are suitable for reuse.

Integration with the digital learning environment. An open API enables integration with digital learning environments of higher education institutions, so that teachers are able to find or share open learning materials through their own development or learning environment.

Integration infrastructure

An integration infrastructure is the provision of information (data, processes, tools and services) that makes it possible to exchange data between applications. An integration infrastructure can allow a collection of separate systems to function as a single system. We distinguish between visual integration, data integration and system integration.

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Learning analytics is collecting, analyzing and reporting data from learning environments in order to improve the learning process of students. This information can then be made available to students, teachers or training management.

Learning management system

Learning management system is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery of educational courses or training programs or learning and development programs.

Learning record store

A learning record store (LRS) is a system where all data is stored from the various online (learning) environments that students use.

Alternative name: Learning Record Warehouse, learning data hub

Microcredentialing

Micro-credentialing

Micro-credentialing is the process of earning a micro-credential, which are like mini-degrees or certifications in a specific topic area. Once you've completed all of the requirements for a micro-credential, you will be awarded proof that you've earned it. This might take the form of a digitalcertificate, which may be a document or an open badge as evidence that you've completed the necessary workMicrocredentialing is the 'cutting-up' of education in smaller units and the certification thereof. A microcredential is comparable to a mini-diploma, or with a certificate (or badge) for mastering specific substantive expertise.

Online education

Online education is education where learning materials, tools and services are available for at least 80% via the internet.

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