CERTIFICATIONS
Strategy
TRAVIS THURSTON
Sr. Instructional Designer
@travesty328
travis.thurston@usu.edu
PURPOSE
Enhance professional skill set
Further education
Prove competency
Provide HEeD Members with opportunities to:
CERTIFICATIONS
Integrated with Professional Development and Badging
Certify or badge what we have
-Skills or PD that we can offer now
-Prioritize our certificate offerings
-Consider partners for offerings
CERTIFICATIONS
Track or theme based workshops
-Allow learner choice
-Stack badges = Certifications
Integrated with Professional Development and Badging
Format and LMS for offerings
-Asynchronous/Synchronous
-Partnering
7 POINT PLAN
- Create a badge constellation
- Map meaning to badges and system
- Identify a global assessment strategy
- Determine system relationships & how learners progress
- Design benefits, opportunities and rewards into the system
- Address technology considerations
- Utilize appropriate graphic design
To develop an integrated badge system we will:
CONSTELLATION
Visual map of scope and scale:
-skill or knowledge development
-summative achievement
-progress or milestones
-membership activity/involvement
1. Create a badge constellation
MAP MEANING
Map articulates each badge:
-backward design
-Title, description, criteria, expiration
(if applicable, and evidence
Sample:
UCF Infolit http://infolit.ucf.edu/faculty/
2. Define each Badge and relation to System
ASSESSMENT
Define when competency has been earned:
-authentic artifact
-test, quiz or formal assessment
-peer review of work
-verified participation (event or program)
-membership or interest group
-presenter, facilitator or leader
3. Identify a global assessment strategy
LEARNER PROGRESS
-Consider milestones or other steps
-Formative or Summative steps
-Make progression easy to understand
4. Determine system relationship & learner progression
BENEFITS & REWARDS
Crucial questions:
-What does the badge represent in HEeD? Elsewhere?
-What rewards are available?
-Will it unlock added benefits?
5. Design benefits, opportunities & rewards
TECH CONSIDERATIONS
Adopt Badge Platform:
-Create, Distribute, Track
-Open Badge Platform
-Backpack or Curate
6. Address Technology Considerations
TECH CONSIDERATIONS
Essentials in a Badge Platform:
-Define badge, metadata, titles, description, etc.
-Manage organization issuing badges
-Set badge earning criteria or rules for earners
-Host assertion and badge evidence
-Track and analyze badge-earning and sharing data
-Confirm identity enable secure badge acceptance
6. Address Technology Considerations
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Badges should include:
-indicate balance of skill/competency
-branding from HEeD Association
-color and art theme or branding
-title of badge and years
7. Utilize appropriate graphic design
QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION
TRAVIS THURSTON
@travesty328
travis.thurston@usu.edu
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