Tag: badges
Mozilla is Doing a Hack Job on Open Badges
This week at MozFest in London there’s a session called “Hack the Backpack” where the Open Badges community is being asked to help contribute to long-standing open and unaddressed issues regarding the backpack. It needs some “love”. But…
Read More »Badging in a Learner-Centered Context
Daniel Hickey describes his process for badging and how the learner might personalize their achievements.
Read More »IBL Studios Issues an Open Source Badging Platform
The open badges community continues to grow through the development and implementation of open source software. What distinguishes IBL’s platform is that it is a fully-functioning, badge-issuing open source code that will work with multiple providers, including learning…
Read More »10 Lessons Learned from an Award-Winning Digital Badging Program
The field of badging is a rapidly evolving ecosystem with exciting potential. Its relatively new status also presents challenges for early adopters. Yet our early experiences suggest that badging has tremendous potential to motivate, engage, and acknowledge achievements,…
Read More »Information Literacy Digital Badges Mapped to Bloom’s Taxonomy
In today’s society, visual representation of information is highly valued. Images present a significant amount of information in a faster time. We created information literacy digital badge infographics to visually convey the cognitive processes embedded in the badge…
Read More »Are Digital Badges a New Measurement of Mastery?
Across the globe, higher ed institutions and professional organizations are harnessing the power of digital badges to motivate, demonstrate, and validate learning and development (L&D). Digital badges are currently in use at postsecondary institutions such as MIT and…
Read More »Students want better digital credentials
As it stands, diplomas represent degree completion and achievement, while transcripts provide a deeper level of detail as to how someone earned their degree. However, transcripts are more focused on student mobility within or between schools, and do…
Read More »IMS Global getting into Badges!
MS thinks that CBE and Badges are probably going to become intertwined as both progress into the future. CBE, at its most broad interpretation, is about relaying information about what a person is capable of doing, ideally including…
Read More »Badges for Learning: a review of the formative role of badges in two open online courses
The emergence of open online learning courses brings in to sharp relief the viability of existing forms of teacher provided formative and summative assessment. For such courses that carry no charge for participation alternative structures for engaging, motivating…
Read More »Digital Badges / Open Badges Taxonomy
Working on the taxonomy of digital badges / open badges is an interesting empirical and conceptual endeavour. I have been looking into different types of badges as part of the “Discussion Paper on Open Badges and Quality Assurance” on which…
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