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Is our tool right ?

Claire Héber-Suffin – founder of RERSPresident of Honor of Open Recognition Alliance Are recognition badges just tools? Is the process they induce a fair tool? The right tool, according to Ivan Illich has three characteristics: “It is efficient without degrading personal autonomy; it raises neither slaves nor masters; it broadens…

First international Open badge night

The very first international Open Badge night is jointly organized by the Association Reconnaitre – ORA, the Ligue de l’enseignement and Let’s Hub, on March 20th between 18:00 and 00:00 CET. This event wants to be a great moment of communication and acculturation to these new instruments at the service…

Paul Valéry on Diplomas and the Baccalaureate

Excerpt from Le bilan de l’intelligence (1935) I never hesitate to declare that the diploma is the mortal enemy of culture. The more important diplomas have become in life (and this importance has only increased because of economic circumstances), the lower the performance of education has been. The more control was…

Publication of an Informal Recognition Framework

“In what follows, the magical or tribal or collectivist society will also be called the closed society, and the society in which individuals are confronted with personal decisions, the open society.” -Karl Poper, The Open Society and its Enemies. Open Badges have demonstrated their impact on the life of individuals…

Publication of an Informal Recognition Framework

“In what follows, the magical or tribal or collectivist society will also be called the closed society, and the society in which individuals are confronted with personal decisions, the open society.” -Karl Poper, The Open Read more…

Publication of an Informal Recognition Framework

“In what follows, the magical or tribal or collectivist society will also be called the closed society, and the society in which individuals are confronted with personal decisions, the open society.” -Karl Poper, The Open Read more…

Publication of an Informal Recognition Framework

“In what follows, the magical or tribal or collectivist society will also be called the closed society, and the society in which individuals are confronted with personal decisions, the open society.” -Karl Poper, The Open Read more…