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BadgeOS™ is a powerful free plugin to WordPress that lets you easily create achievements and issue sharable badges as your users succeed. Activate the free BadgeStack extension to instantly create Levels, Quests and Badge Achievement Types — and start badging!
What are conditional activities? Since the introduction of Moodle 2, it has been possible for users to track which activities/resources they have completed. This means that resources/activities are ‘aware’ ...
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Mozilla has released version 1.0 of its Open Badges standard, which offers digital badges in reward for verifiable achievements, skills and learning. The organization has launched ...
Yesterday, Mozilla just released version 1.0 of its Open Badges standard, which offers digital badges in reward for verifiable achievements, skills and learning. Open Badges is an open technical s...
Gamification in Education – facilitated by Barry Peddycord from NCState
use points/badges, etc. as a gatekeeping mechanism to prevent students from moving on to material they are not ready for it
Sheryl Grant from HASTAC recently posted a detailed summary of resources about uses of digital badges in higher education.[1] It was a very timely post for me as I had been asked to draft just such a brief by an administrator at Indiana University where I work. Sheryl is the director of social networking for the MacArthur/Gates Badges for Lifelong Learning initiative. Her job leaves her uniquely knowledgeable about the explosive growth of digital badges in many settings, including colleges and universities. In this post, I want to explore one of the issues that Sheryl raised about the ways badges are being introduced in higher education, particularly as it relates to Indiana’s Universities.
Opening presentation for University College London Open Badge design day. Covering: - Problems in educational assessment / recognition - Open badges technolog
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Digital Badges: Initiatives seek to give students permanent online records for developing specific skillsAsh, Katie. Education Week's Digital Directions5. 3 (Spring/Summer 2012): 24, 25, 28, 25, 30, 25. Turn on hit highlighting for speaking browsersAbstract (summary)Translate Abstract Initiatives seek to give students permanent online records for skills they have developed that they could then use when applying to college or for jobs.
Digital badges are a validated indicator of accomplishment, skill, quality or interest that can be earned in various learning environments.[1]Mozilla Open Badges allow organizations to create, issue, earn and display digital badges on members’ websites, social media pages, and resumes.[2]
Traditional physical badges have been used for many years by various organizations such as the United States Army[3] and the Boy Scouts of America[4] to give members a physical emblem to display the accomplishment of various achievements.
While physical badges have been in use for hundreds of years, the idea of digital badges is a relatively recent development drawn from research into gamification.[citation needed] As game elements, badges have been used by organizations such as Foursquare and Huffington Post to reward users for accomplishing certain tasks.[5] In 2005, Microsoft introduced the Xbox’ 360 Gamerscore system, which is considered to be the original implementation of an achievement system.
Stimulating and Supporting Innovation in Learning The image above is of a Jisc RSC Scotland Digital Leadership Open Badge, awarded to those who attended the Assessment Summit 2013. The Assessment Summit brought together individuals leading the assessment agenda in colleges and universities across Scotland, with the key agencies supporting assessment, to discuss future strategic priorities. The aim of the event was to highlight how considering assessment in terms of the whole institution, can enhance the learner journey and enable efficiencies. The event demonstrated how this can be achieved through presentations focusing on streamlining assessment data flow and processes and embedding effective assessment practices within the curriculum to help equip students with the skills they need to become more self-regulating and in control of their own learning.
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Integrate OpenBadges in Blackboard Learn to allow faculty to display student badges from mozilla backpack, allow faculty create new badges in courses, allow students claim badges. A student photo roster will accompany this project, so the facutly can preview not only the faces of students, but badges earned in other classes. This will help faculty to get to know students prior to start of a class and to track their progress in the learning networks outside of the classroom.
Digital Badges: An Annotated Research Bibliography selected and annotated by Sheryl Grant and Kristan E. Shawgo and published on HASTAC on February 27, 2013. This bibliography has been curated by Sheryl Grant, Director of Social Networking for the HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition, and PhD student at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) and annotated by Kristan Shawgo, HASTAC Special Projects Manager and Ci-BER Library Liaison, and recent MSLS graduate from SILS at UNC-CH.
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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...
Put a badge on it? U.S. startup Badgeville brings its brand of engagement to the Salesforce cloud.
Even though badges are still in their infancy, a class of them have emerged that will make employers and admissions counselors take notice.
Digital Badges
December 1-15, 2012 | SCoPE discussion Description
During this two-week seminar we will explore digital badges from concept through to implementation. The seminar will focus on the possible pedagogies and technology required for implementing digital badges. We will also take a critical look at the current state of digital badges with discussion of the required and possible futures. If you have a few hours to read and discuss focused topics and participate in two mid-day (PST) webinars then please join is this lively learning experience focused on digital badges
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We will explore how informal and nontraditional learning environments are impacting how we think about education. In particular, we'll discuss peer-to-peer learning trends and unpack the need for microcredentials and badge-empowered learning, which Finkelstein is pioneering as part of major initiatives with groups such as the Smithsonian Institution, the New York City Department of Education, Yale University, WCET, and programs for schools, museums, libraries, and other nonprofit organizations across the globe. Finkelstein will share examples of new educational programs and online communities that leverage digital badges to build ongoing relationships with learners, foster engagement, and acknowledge learning that often goes unrewarded or unrecognized. Badges also help learners showcase discrete skills and competencies that have value in their current professional and social lives. We’ll look at how even formal educational programs can leverage the benefits of microcredentials.
Abstract This expanded version of the 2007 Presidential Address for the American Educational Research Association approaches changes in assessment and accountability from the perspective of achieving balance. The author identifies unresolved conceptual and practical issues in the use of assessment in the schools and describes approaches intended to mitigate problems or improve practice. An example is given from formative assessment research that integrates some of these approaches (Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, at the University of California, Los Angeles). International examples of performance and assessment are also reviewed. The author suggests that secondary school assessment be modified to focus students on acquiring concrete Qualifications that certify important accomplishments, with a wide choice of Qualification areas. She argues that using concrete accomplishments and restructuring tests will help schools and their students to regain needed balance.
The DML conference over the past few years has been a key milestone in the badge work. This year we formally launched the production version of Open Badges and it was awesome. As I was standing on...
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The folks at Credly continue to set the standard.