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Badges in workforce education: The case of certification in humanitarian logistics in Oxfam

Jeroen BremanLisa Giacumo

AECT06 November 2014

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DIGITAL BADGES IN OXFAM

• What are digital badges?• Why use badges?• Badges in Oxfam

• Implementation• Results

PILOT

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Background

• Learning happens everywhere • Difficult to recognise skills and achievements

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Image credit: By Douglas Muth from Ardmore, PA, USA (My old Boy Scout merit badges) [CC-BY-SA-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

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• Issuer• Criteria• Evidence

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Open Badges in Oxfam

SUPPLY & LOGISTICS

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WHAT WE DO?

• Ensure that supply and logistics in Oxfam GB’s programmes worldwide is: • Effective• Professional• Compliant

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SOME FIGURES• Supply and Logistics accounts for over

£100,000,000 of International Division’s programme expenditure

• A recent survey of a number of Supply & Logistics creative cost saving initiatives recorded savings for

Oxfam of at least £1.4m

• By December 2013, introduction of SCM software in

programs had made £3.5m in financial savings

• Fleet Management has saved Oxfam £30k but could

save up to £200k per year when used globally

Implementation

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Certification in Humanitarian Logistics

• Individual• Distance learning• 1 ½ - 3 years• Low completion rate

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CERTIFICATION IN HUMANITARIAN LOGISTICS

Results

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Unit progression analysis

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Survey results – 6 of 36 respondents

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Survey results

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Survey results

• “I tried to collect my badges but could not even save one badge. I do not know how the badges look like. I was very much interested into getting my badges, but to no avail (unfortunately)”

• “The badges used to encourage someone to feel recognized on the course s/he was undertaking especially if you are a first time student doing a course online”

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Next steps

• Interview participants to find out what is preventing them from completion.

• Track time-to-completion rates.

• Standardize prompts for completion.

• Improve technology.

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Contact

• Jeroen Breman: jbreman@oxfam.org.uk• Lisa Giacumo: lgiacumo1@oxfam.org.uk