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Badge It! Using Digital Badges to Certify Information Badge It! Using Digital Badges to Certify Information

Literacy Skills within Disciplinary Curriculum Literacy Skills within Disciplinary Curriculum

Emily Ford Portland State University

Jost Lottes Portland State University

Betty T. Izumi Portland State University

Dawn Richardson Portland State University

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Badge it!

Using Digital Badges to Certify Information Literacy Skills within Disciplinary Curriculum

Emily FordJost LottesBetty Izumi

Dawn Richardson

Portland State University

● What are badges?● Theory● Overview of the PSU

Project● Our Approach● Project Planning● Faculty Perspectives● Future Directions● Claim Your Badge!● Questions/Discussion

Agenda

A badge is a visual representation of a skill, achievement, or knowledge gained.

Theory - Active Learningtheartdontstop.org/images/gallery/1169430383.jpg

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Theory - Competency- Based Curriculum

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Theory - Motivation

Badge Anatomy

Badge NameDescriptionCriteriaIssuerEvidenceDate IssuedStandardsTags

CC BY Kyle Bowen

Our Approachcommons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shipdham_Airfield_final_approach.JPG

Planning - Outcomes & Curriculum Mappingcommons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portland,_OR,_street_map.png

Planning - Instructional Design

Website Evaluation

Prof/ Pop/ In-between

Contributor to Info

Landscape

Source Documentation

Analysis of Info

Search Techniques

Planning - Instructional Design

Contributor to Information Landscape Badge Assignments and Criteria

Course Assignment Criteria

Our Community, Our Health

Write a blog post on the class blog. Peer evaluation of one another's blog posts.

Complete blog post and evaluation.

Community Nutrition

Critically evaluate a newspaper article on a community nutrition topic. Write and submit a commentary to The Oregonian and The New York Times. Provide peer review feedback on commentary drafts prior to their submission.

Print/submit the email submissions; participate as a peer reviewer.

Social Gerontology

Write critical responses to an article. Provide peer review of one another's responses.

Complete the critical response and the peer review process.

Planning - Instructional Design

Contributor to Information Landscape Badge Assignments and Criteria

Course Skill Assignment/ Criteria

Our Community, Our Health

Keyword searching and maximizing search efficacy in Google and other search engines

Online module and quiz

Community Nutrition

Keyword searching, basic Boolean search techniques, and database functionality in a subject-specific database. (Health Source)

D2L assignment (flipped prior to library session), library session, and annotated bibliography

SocialGerontology

Keyword searching, basic Boolean search techniques, and database functionality in a subject-specific database. (Ageline)

D2L assignment and quiz, library session, find one article to review.

Faculty Perspectives Dawn

Richardson

Faculty Perspectives Betty Izumi

Faculty Perspectives

A recent article in Yahoo Finance listed the “10 Worst States for Retirement.” The state ranked #1 (i.e., the worst) was Oregon: “Oregon ranks dead last on our list of bad states for retirement for a variety of reasons. Its crime rate, state and local tax burden and cost of living are all higher than the national average. Its annual average temperature is 48.8 degrees, which is colder than the 30-year national average of 52.8 degrees.

However, The Beaver State offers spectacular scenery from Mount Hood to the Pacific coast, and plentiful opportunities for hikers to climb its rugged terrain and kayakers to experience its exhilarating white-water rapids -- perhaps unsuitable activities for all but the hardiest retirees.”

Faculty Perspectives

Future Directionscommons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AToutes_directions.JPG

Claim Your Badge

http://bit.ly/badgeit

Questions/ Discussioncommons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ADiscussion.png

Abramovich, S., Schunn, C., & Higashi, R. M. (2013). Are badges useful in education?: it depends upon the type of badge and expertise of learner. Educational Technology Research and Development, 61(2), 217–232.

Albanese, M. a, Mejicano, G., Anderson, W. M., & Gruppen, L. (2010). Building a competency-based curriculum: the agony and the ecstasy. Advances in Health Sciences Education : Theory and Practice, 15(3), 439–54.

Brasley, S. S. (2008). Effective Librarian and Discipline Faculty Collaboration Models for Integrating Information Literacy into the Fabric of an Academic Institution. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, (114), 71–88.

Cary, K. (2012). A Future Full of Badges - Commentary. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Gordon, L., & Bartoli, E. (2012). Using Discipline-Based Professional Association Standards for Information Literacy Integration: A Review and Case Study. Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, 21(1), 23–38.

Levidow, L. (2002). Marketizing higher education : neoliberal strategies and counter strategies. In K. Robins & F. Webster (Eds.), The Virtual University? Knowledge, Markets and Management (pp. 227–248). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lozano, J. F., Boni, A., Peris, J., & Hueso, A. (2012). Competencies in Higher Education: A Critical Analysis from the Capabilities Approach. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 46(1), 132–147.

Further Readings

Moser, F. Z. (2007). Strategic Management of Educational Technology--The Importance of Leadership and Management. Tertiary Education and Management, 13(2), 141–152.

Meulemans, Y. N., & Carr, A. (2013). Not at your service: building genuine faculty-librarian partnerships. Reference Services Review, 41(1), 80–90.

Pagowsky, N. (n.d.). Keeping Up With... Digital Badges for Instruction. ACRL Keeping Up With...

Schneckenberg, D., Ehlers, U., & Adelsberger, H. (2011). Web 2.0 and Competence-Oriented Design of Learning--Potentials and Implications for Higher Education. British Journal of Educational Technology, 42(5), 747–762.

Schulte, S. J. (2012). Embedded Academic Librarianship: A Review of the Literature. Evidence Based Library & Information Practice, 7(4), 122–138.

Sleeter, C. (2008). Equity, democracy, and neoliberal assaults on teacher education. Teaching and Teacher Education, 24(8), 1947–1957.

Smith, K. (2012). Lessons Learnt from Literature on the Diffusion of Innovative Learning and Teaching Practices in Higher Education. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 49(2), 173–182.

Wheelahan, L. (2007). How competency‐based training locks the working class out of powerful knowledge: a modified Bernsteinian analysis. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 28(5), 637–651.

Wheelahan, L. (2012). The appropriation of constructivism by instrumentalism: The case of competency-based training. In Why Knowledge Matters in Curriculum: A Social Realist Argument. New Studies in Critical Realism and Education (pp. 126–144). New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

Further ReadingsCont’d

Emily FordUrban & Public Affairs Librarian

Millar LibraryPortland State

University

forder@pdx.edu

Jost LottesResearch Associate

Institute on AgingPortland State

University

jost@pdx.edu

Betty IzumiAssistant Professor

School of Community Health

Portland State University

izumibet@pdx.edu

Dawn RichardsonAssistant Professor

School of Community Health

Portland State University

drichar2@pdx.edu