Whom Will Digital Badges Empower? Sociological Perspectives on Digital Badges

The workshop preserved the general OBIE focus on opportunities and challenges associated with Open Badges, and the overall objective of connecting educators, researchers, and entrepreneurs in discourses on teaching, learning, assessment, digital credentials, and digital education in general. Still, considering the context where it took place, namely the major international conference on learning analytics, this 2 installment in the OBIE series was primarily intended for those interested in the intersection of Open Badges and Learning Analytics. This intersection includes collection, integration, and analysis of data and resources associated with Open Badges, with the ultimate objective of supporting educators, learners and other stakeholders in the ever-increasing Open Badges ecosystem through the provision of informative and relevant feedback, predictive capabilities, and eventually a better understanding of the factors underlying educational processes and outcomes.