Serge Ravet shares the work being done for the renewal of the French version of Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (Validation des Acquis de l’Expérience – VAE) and about ePIC 2021, the 19th International Conference on Open Education and Open Recognition technologies and practices

1. Serge Ravet
An emerging approach to
Prior Learning Assessment and
Recognition
Update on ePortfolio practice in France
August 26 2021

2. About the reform of
Validation des Acquis de l’Expérience (VAE)
The French approach to
Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR)

3. Based on the observation that the current VAE* system does not match the
expectations, four Ministers have called for a thorough reform of the VAE:
• Labour,
• Solidarity and Health,
• Higher Education, Research and Innovation,
• National Education and Youth
* Validation des Acquis de l’Expérience / Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR)

4. Context

5. Part recognised by a diploma
A person’s experience
Current situation
experience is interdisciplinary by nature,
diplomas not (yet)

6. VAE (PLAR) accessibility
Population
Current situation
experience is interdisciplinary by nature,
diplomas not (yet)

7. Interdisciplinary diplomas
Diplomas
Current situation

8. Emerging practices
Practices
Current situation
Diplomas recognising emerging
practices

9. Solution?

10. REVE
decoupling and re-articulating
recognition and validation

11. R
E
V
E
ecognition
alidation xperience
xperience
of
of
decoupling and re-articulating recognition and validation

12. Recognition
Validation/Certification

13. What about ePortfolios?

14. ePortfolio practice
is about making the invisible visible

15. Learning
making the invisible visible
Process
Outcome
Assessment
Recognition

16. Empower
Conform Enable
Formal
Informal
Non-traditional
Institution
Community
Dynamic
Static
Include
Traditional
Past Future
Recognition

17. 17
Asymmetry
Symmetry
RECOGNITION CERTIFICATION
certi
fi
er - certi
fi
ed
recogniser - recognised
Referees Framework
Practitioners
Community of Practice
Assessors
Awarding body
Analogic Analitic
Power

18. Individuals
RECOGNITION
Activate
Communities Practices
Competences
Involved
Belong
of
Competences do not exist independently from practices and practitioners

19. What [ePortfolio] practice
Empowers individuals and communities?
Makes visible formal and informal learning?
Makes visible and actionable formal and informal recognition?
Ending the power asymmetry embedded in ePortfolio platforms and processes (e.g. grading)

20. How to create interdisciplinary diplomas?
How to recognise work experience?
REVE
Open Diplomas
Open Credentials

21. Practices
Diploma Curriculum
Disciplinary
Credentials
Interdisciplinary
Institution
Communities
of practice
Open
Credentials
Individual
Selects
Engages
Open
Diploma
Defines
Recognise Accredits
Learn
Define
Belongs
Open
Curriculum
Designs
Collects Claims Open
Diploma
Informs
Documents

22. Using Open Badges as a means to empower individuals
and communities to create their own ePortfolio of open
credentials leading to interdisciplinary diplomas
REVE
Open Diplomas
Open Credentials
Open Curriculum

23. Merci
openrecognition.org
Serge Ravet