All about badges
(in 20 minutes or less)
Badges from MoodleBadges.com licensed under
digital badge
an online representation of a skill or achievement
open badges
an open technical standard anyone can use to create, issue, and verify digital badges
Badge Alliance: Why Badges: http://www.badgealliance.org/why-badges/
Mozilla Open Badges: http://www.openbadges.org/
Imagine that...
- your skills and competencies could be captured more granularly across different contexts (formal and informal)
- evidence of your skills could be collected and associated with your online identity (blogs, eportfolios, websites)
- you could discover relevant opportunities and craft your own learning pathways based on your own interests, at your own pace
- you could present a more complete picture of yourself to key stakeholders: employers, mentors, peers, collaborators
Enter....Badges!
Bull, B. (2014, Sept. 4). 15 Reasons Why People are Using Digital Badges. Retrieved from: http://etale.org/main/2014/09/04/15-reasons-why-people-are-using-digital-badges/
Who's using them?
- Industry: (eg: National Manufacturing Institute)
- Education: (formal & informal)
- Professional Associations & Service Organizations
- and many others
How do you make them?
- Roll your own: BadgeLab , Purdue
- Plug-ins for LMSs (Moodle, Blackboard), CMSs (WP, Drupal)
- 3rd-party badge issuing platforms: Credly, Open Badge Factory
What are they made of?
* badge name
* description URL
* badge criteria
* badge image
* issuer
* date
* recipient
* alignment (standards)
* evidence URL
- a digital image
- with metadata "baked" in
Criticisms, challenges...
- Extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation
- Gamification skepticism
- Trust, rigor, validity
- Trivial, juvenile
Casilli, C. (2012). Mozilla Open Badges: building trust networks, creating value. Retrieved from: http://carlacasilli.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/mozilla-open-badges-building-trust-networks-creating-value/
Hickey, D. (2014, Aug. 5). Of Course Alfie Kohn Dislikes Open Digital Badges: Transcending a 40-Year Old Debate. Retrieved from: http://remediatingassessment.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/of-course-alfie-kohn-dislikes-open.html
Considerations:
- Value proposition (why earn the badge?)
- Who is it for?
- What skills/behaviours does it represent or encourage?
- Criteria (what do you need to do to earn it?)
- Evidence (what artefacts or information?)
- Who awards it?
- Who endorses or recognizes it?
- Will it be cumulative or part of a larger badge system?
- Institutional policy implications?
Mozilla Open Badges Community. Badge System Design: http://community.openbadges.org/#design
Digital Me. Badge Canvas. http://www.digitalme.co.uk/assets/pdf/DigitalMe-Badge-Design-Canvas.pdf
KPU's Badge Pilot
"I Cite My Sources"
KPU Library Online Plagiarism Tutorials: http://libguides.kpu.ca/plagiarism
Moodle badge link:
Thanks!
Meg Goodine (meg.goodine@kpu.ca)
Manager, Learning Technology
Institute for Innovation & Scholarship in Teaching & Learning (INSTL)
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
For more information about badges, visit the Reconnect Learning website
All about badges (in 20 minutes or less)
By Meg Goodine
All about badges (in 20 minutes or less)
A presentation for the KPU Positive Space Working Group, Sept. 12, 2014
