Within digital open badge-driven learning process, the SOSTRA project introduces new ways to recognize prior soft skills and knowledge, as well as a unique opportunity to gain new skills and knowledge.

Adult Educator soft skills as transferable personal attributes and abilities that enable to interact effectively and harmoniously with others both at intra- and inter-personal and at socio-emotional level.

To earn a micro-credential (badge), educators submit evidence of their competence (e.g. in the context of a lesson, examples of student work, student and teacher reflections). That evidence is then assessed by experts or peers based on a set of evaluation criteria.

How to get started?

• Reflect your own skills and knowledge (REFLECT)
• Select a skill you have developed or would like to develop (LEARN)
• Collect the required evidence demonstrating your skill in the selected area
• Apply and upload and submit your collected evidence (EARN)
• Share your digital badge once you have earned it (DISPLAY)

We are piloting this digital badging concept between 15.1.-1.5.2020 and all applicants will receive a survey at the end of the process.

Join to the soft skills learning community (FB group for guidance) and like our Facebook page to get more information.

And you are also warmly welcomed to listen all our podcasts from here.

Contact persons:

• HAMK EDU/ Sanna Ruhalahti, Project manager
• HAMK EDU/ Anne-Maria Korhonen, Senior lecturer
• HAMK EDU/ Hanna Lindroos, Project coordinator