Digital Badges: An Annotated Research Bibliography v1

Announcing Mozilla BadgeKit Design Principles for Assessing Learning with Digital Badges This post is cross-posted at Remediating Assessment . Rebecca Itow and Daniel Hickey This post introduces the emerging design principles for assessing learning with digital badges. This is the second of four posts that will introduce the Design Principles Documentation Project’s (introduced in a previous post ) emerging design principles around recognizing, assessing, motivating and evaluating learning. At their core, digital badges recognize some kind of learning. But if one is going to recognize learning, there is usually some kind of assessment of that learning so that claims about learning can be substantiated by evidence. No one project embodies all of these principles, and the principles mean somewhat different things to different projects. Design Principles for Assessing Learning The following principles are ordered by their prevalence among the different projects. Use leveled badge systems . Enhance validity with expert judgment. Use performance assessments in relevant contexts.

Conference 2014 Videos Keynote Address: Dr Daithí Ó Murchú Keynote Address: Dr Deirdre Butler & Dr Michael Hallissy Capstone Presentation – Sparking the Imagination Sound Effects [Caroline Carswell] Living Schools Lab Project – Showcasing good ICT practice in schools and exploring ways to upscale and mainstream this in other schools [Karin Whooley & Sarah-Jayne Carey] Making and Managing MOOCs: An Experience from the Udder-side [Mark Brown] Online Resources for Active and Inclusive Learning, incorporating JC Key Skills and SSE [Siobhan O'Sullivan] Rolling With the Punches: Integrating New Technology into a Chicago Public School Classroom [Alex Selkirk] ‘Dance like the waves of the sea’ – Ten top tech tips by WB Yeats [Dughall McCormick] Using “Badges” for sustainable Professional Development for Teachers [Mark Glynn] Back to Top

The Teacher's Guide To Using Badges In Your Classroom What encourages students to do well in school? Often, it comes down to grades. Many students will work harder in order to earn a higher grade. Colleges want to see good grades. Unfortunately, some students are not motivated by grades. Cub Scouts and Girl Scouts Boys and girls in the scouting program earn patches for three things: progressing through the scouting program, attending a special event, or accomplishing a specific goal. The patches are a source of pride to the scout who earned them, and they are a way to show off what they have accomplished to others. The values of every organization change, and when that happens new badges are created to encourage members to gain those skills. The Use Of Badges In The Military The Scouts’ use of badges was borrowed from the military which has been utilizing badges for hundreds of years. Video Game Achievements Video games award badges, too, in a very similar way to the Scouts and the military. Some of the achievements are very specific .

Evidencing Employability Skills with Open Badges | Jisc RSC Scotland e-Assessment Concerns, Possible Solutions, Paradigm Shifts and Key Findings There was focused and lively discussion at the Open Badges: Ways to Evidence Employability event I co-facilitated at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) this week. Alongside Tom Caira, Chair of the Industry Advisory Board for Computing and Frances Rowan, Stakeholder Manager (Careers and Employability Service) from UWS, we brought together over 50 technology employers (Directors from multinational and local companies), students, educators and members of the Open Badges in Scottish Education Group (OBSEG) to consider if Open Badges could provide a useful way of highlighting employability skills and attributes employers are looking for. Commencing with an ice-breaker activity we split into groups and asked students to say what attributes they thought employers might look for in potential employees, then employers commented on what they are looking for. Concerns Possible solutions From Flickr by Doug Belshaw Paradigm shift

Open Badges in K12 meeting: 2 April 2013 : Free Download <div style="padding:5px; font-size:80%; width:300px; background-color:white; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; border:1px dashed gray;"> Internet Archive's<!--'--> in-browser audio player requires JavaScript to be enabled. It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature. </div> openbadges-k12-call-2apr13.output This was a special Mozilla Open Badges community call focusing explicitly on badges in a school context. This audio is part of the collection: Community AudioIt also belongs to collection: Date: 2013-04-02Language: EnglishKeywords: Mozilla; Open Badges; K12; schools; community Creative Commons license: CC0 1.0 Universal Individual Files Be the first to write a review Downloaded 87 times Reviews

Badges/Onboarding-Earner A. Mozilla Open Badge Infrastructure (OBI) Why Are We Doing This? Learners are learning everywhere -- but most of that learning doesn't "count" Skills assessment and communication is limited in current system, e.g. GPA, GED, Bachelor or Master degrees, static resume There are few alternatives to the current accreditation/credentialing system Learning doesn’t happen simply between K - 12 and university; learning happens over the course of a lifetime and frequently in informal settings Goals Description Enabling learners to earn badges wherever they're learning across the web requires support for multiple individual badge issuers. The OBI is built in node.js using express. Diagram Overview Issuer issues a badge on their site, then prompts the Badge Earner to push the badge into their Backpack for portability. Badge The core currency of exchange. Open Badge Infrastructure (OBI) Badge Backpack Metadata Spec The definition of what makes up a badge. Badge Baking Issuer API Verification API Endorsement API

I Don’t Get Digital Badges Digital badges appear to becoming the next, “new” thing in education. What follows is a description of digital badges as described by Digital Media and Learning: A digital badge is an online record of achievements, the work required, and information about the organization, individual or other entity that issued the badge. The proposed benefits of such a system would be a broader and deeper picture of skill sets acquired both in formal and informal settings. Advocates of this vision for K-12 contend that such badges could help bridge educational experiences that happen in and out of school, as well as provide a way to recognize “soft skills” such as leadership and collaboration. The Functions of Badges Daniel Hickey proposed four functions of badges in Intended Purposes Versus Actual Function of Digital Badges: Recognizing Learning. Badges As Rewards/As a Means for Motivation Daniel Pink discusses a similar occurance in organizational settings: Who Decides?

Open Badges for Training & PD - Savvyfolio.net Making a Market for Competency-Based CredentialsCorporation for a Skilled Workforce (2013?)Great overview of the state of practice in the United States and makes a case for doing better. Cites Mozilla Open Badges, US Dept of Labor Competency Models, credential stacking. Some good visuals. Digital “Badges” Emerge as Part of Credentialing’s FutureProfessional Examination Service www.ProExam.org Research Brief - ProExam Digital Micro-Credential Market Research (November 2012)Professional Examination Service - research study of employers cited in white paper above"ProExam Digital Micro-Credentials were seen as taking “the fluff off the badges” and giving them real meaning....a secure, embedded linkthat would provide a validation of both the authenticity of the credential as well as its current status."

Design Principles for Assessing Learning with Digital Badges This post is cross-posted at Remediating Assessment. Rebecca Itow and Daniel Hickey This post introduces the emerging design principles for assessing learning with digital badges. This is the second of four posts that will introduce the Design Principles Documentation Project’s (introduced in a previous post) emerging design principles around recognizing, assessing, motivating and evaluating learning. At their core, digital badges recognize some kind of learning. No one project embodies all of these principles, and the principles mean somewhat different things to different projects. Design Principles for Assessing Learning The following principles are ordered by their prevalence among the different projects. Use leveled badge systems. Enhance validity with expert judgment. Align assessment activities to standards: Create measurable learning objectives.Almost all of the badging projects have decided to align their activities to some established standard. Use mastery learning. Use rubrics.

Home - Savvyfolio.net Open Badges in Bb Open Education #GCUGamesOn | howsheilaseesIT GCU Games On Gold Medal Our online event GCU Games On is now in it’s final week. Each week we have been giving participants the chance to win digital medals which are actually badges but as the event is about the Commonwealth Games it was too good an opportunity to use the term medals. Creating and issuing badges with Open Education is pretty straightforward using gradecentre. Firstly we developed this “event” pretty quickly and we wanted it to be as easy as possible to get the almost instant gratification of winning a badge – which seems to have worked. Now a silver medal! It’s really it’s that pesky email authentication thang in Backpack. Our “event” is not a course or one of those M things. However, overall issuing badges through the open platform does work and we have learned a lot about the practicalities of creating and issuing badges within Blackboard. If you have any experiences/thoughts/tips about badges then please let me know in the comments. Like this: Like Loading...

.........Experimental Blog: #Openbadges Simplest Possible Message about Open Badges I've been working with colleagues to try and refine a very simple message about #Openbadges . Here is work in progress - it is aimed at a Scottish schools audience but could be used in a range of contexts when introducing the concept of Open Badges - comments welcome ! Digital /Open Badges – What Exactly Are They? This is a guide prepared for an audience who may never have heard of Digital / Open badges. Badges are not a new phenomenon in learning. To earn a badge the recipient has to meet a certain level of competency or demonstrate a specific attribute. Digital Badges are really just a simple extension of this philosophy into the digital age. The advantage that a digital badge has over a cloth badge is that a digital badge can contain a lot of additional information (called meta data). So a digital badge becomes an on-line way for a learner to show evidence of their learning. The open in the heading comes from the technology that has been used to support the creation of digital badges.

5 Great Resources for Creating Digital Badges - LearningMesh | LearningMesh Recent attention within the scope of digital learning has focused on the use of digital badges to recognize a learner’s achievement and proficiency through course objectives. For those with boy scout or girl scout experience, you may recall receiving multiple badges after demonstrating knowledge and application on various skills. Or, if you’re a regular Foursquare user that likes to check-in at various locations, perhaps you’ve received badges for your journeys and usage. (Too see a list of Foursquare badges, check out this link on all the potential Foursquare badges you can earn.) Similarly, online learners can earn various digital badges for their progress through digital coursework on certain learning management systems. Digital badges have the capacity to become great motivators for online learners. If you are looking for resources to help you create your own digital badges to incorporate into your online course or learning management system, here are five great resources: