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BadgesNon-credit awards from a Faculty Development ProgramScott B. JohnsonProgram Coordinator/Director Illinois Online NetworkUniversity of Illinois

http://tinyurl.com/IONBadgesSTEM

The ION Story1997 1999 Online Learning: An Overview2000 Exemplary Online Education Resource award WebCT2001 first Master Online Teacher certificates2002 - ION receives the award for Excellence in ALN Faculty Development from the Sloan Consortium. 2013 First badges awarded

Growth and Development

How to Grow

Two ways to growNew customersExisting Customers

About whom am I talking? Of the 9,107 current profiles, 1,872 have taken only one course3,225 have not yet registered for a course74 have taken 5 of the 6 courses required for the Master Online Teacher certificate but still need the Practicum

Master Online Teacher certificateOnline Learning: An OverviewInstructional Design for Online Course DevelopmentStudent Assessment in Online CoursesThe Core ChoiceA) Universal Design Principles for Online Learning ORB) Encouraging Communication in Online Courses ORC) Technology Tools for Online Learning(One of these courses must be taken. If a second from this group is completed, the second one will count as the elective.)One ElectivePracticum

Certified Online Learning AdministratorThe core courses: AS - Administration Seminar (4 weeks) QA - Quality Assurance and Accountability IS - Issues and Strategies in Faculty Training SS - Supporting Online Students (and supporting students online)One Elective CourseThe capstone course: AP - Online Administration Practicum (8 weeks)

Badges?GamesIncentives/reinforcementsRecognizing less-than-certificate achievementsAdigital badgeis a validated indicator of accomplishment, skill, quality, or interest that can be earned in many learning environments.(https://www.hastac.org/initiatives/digital-badges)

DecisionsWe need a mechanism, what will it be?Where will the badges reside?What will the criteria be?The badges themselves, they need icons

MechanismDifferent ways to do it, we selected the Mozilla Backpack projectWhy? Why not?Mozilla Backpack

Reside where?(Very small) Badge files reside on University of Illinois serverBadges are exportable to Backpack http://openbadges.org/

CriteriaWhat to recognize?MOT is a six-course program, what should the smaller increments be?CCC has a three-course requirement (OO,ID,SA) 16 ceu blocks or two courses

The pairings: http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/badges/about.aspOverview and Instructional Design - BUILDERUniversal Design and Copyright - COMPLIANCEGlobal Education and Administration of Online - GLOBALQuality Assurance and Issues and Strategies - QUALITYSims, Labs, etc and Tech Tools - TECHNOLOGYBlended Learning and Encouraging Communication - TRANSFORMATIONSupporting Students and the Practicum Administration - SUPPORTPracticum and Student Assessment - ASSESSWeb Design and Multimedia - WEBSynchronous Classrooms, Group Work, Librarians, Tutoring Online - CLASSTime Management, Social Networking, Mobile Technology, Podcasting-CONNECTOverview, Instructional Design, Student Assessment - CCCCertified Financial Literacy Instructor - CFLI

4,184 badges awarded to date

The Super Badges448 claimed of 943 issued (48%)

20 claimed of 25 issued (80%)19 Institutions represented

Overview and Instructional Design 480 claimed of 1550 issued (31%)Of 326 badges issued since 2013, 202 claimed (62%)Universal Design and Copyright 3 claimed of 5 issued (60%)

Global Education and Administration of Online2 claimed of 4 issued

Quality Assurance and Issues and Strategies24 claimed of 33 issued (73%)

Sims, Labs, etc and Tech Tools2 claimed of 9 issued (22%)Blended Learning and Encouraging Communication63 claimed of 142 issued (44%)

Supporting Students and the Practicum Administration17 claimed of 25 issued (68%)Practicum and Student Assessment282 claimed of 957 (29%)[102 of 226 since 2013] 45%

Web Design and Multimedia12 claimed of 30 issued (40%)Synchronous Classrooms, Group Work, Librarians, Tutoring OnlineNone awarded yet

Time Management, Social Networking, Mobile Technology, Podcasting1 claimed of 7 issuedOverview, Instructional Design, Student Assessment166 claimed of 444 issued (37%)

Certified Financial Literacy Instructor5 claimed of 9 issued (55%)The next one?? Maybe yours?

TroublesComplicated?Different emailsEdit .jsn file to matching email addressEmail addresses dont match exactly, case mattersOld email addressesAwards never seenValidity?Whats the big deal with backpack. Just send me the iconbaking

Badge day arrives---

That Black Box?

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)Lightweight data-interchange formatLanguage independent Attributevalue pairs"Self-describing" and easy to understandLargely replacing XMLOpenbadges JSON file

RecipientEvidenceBadge (Name, Image, Description, Criteria, Issued Date, Issuer)

http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/badges_DFS/mot/Johnson_Scott_1079.json{"recipient":"scottb.johnson@yahoo.com","evidence": "http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/badges/evidence.asp","badge": { "version": "0.5.0", "name": "MOT", "image": "http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/badges/images/mot.png", "description": "Master Online Teacher", "criteria": "http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/badges/criteria.asp", "issued_on": "6/4/2015 9:29:54 AM", "expires":null, "issuer": { "origin": "http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/","name":"Illinois Online Network"} }}

Openbadges verion 1.0.0./mot/assertion/Johnson_Scott_1079.jsonBadgeAssertionIdentityObjectVerificationObject/mot/badge/Johnson_Scott_1079.jsonBadgeClass/mot/issuer/Johnson_Scott_1079.json IssuerOrganization

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