microcredentialing: recognizing student learning with digital badges
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Microcredentialing: Recognizing Student Learning with Digital Badges
Presenters
Cameron WillsResearch Associate
[email protected]@MetaWills
Stephanie RichterAssistant [email protected]
@slrichter
Slides available at j.mp/fsi15badges
The landscape of learning is changing…
Why Microcredentialing?
What are Badges?
Visual representations of achievements, learning, skills, interests, & competencies
Digital Badge
an online record of achievement, tracking the recipient’s communities of interaction that issued the badge and the work completed to get it
(The Mozilla Foundation & Peer 2 Peer University, 2012)
Digital Badges – Examples
Digital Badges – Examples
Badge Alliance
Microcredential
Awarded on the acquisition of specific knowledge or demonstrated competency of an identified skill
and validated by recognized professional bodies or educational institutions
(Elliott et al., 2014)
Badge vs. Microcredential
• Some debate on the difference• Formative vs. summative assessment
Common terminology
Lifecycle Creating > Issuing > Displaying
Stacking“Upgrading” badges to higher level achievements
EcosystemOverall badging architecture, including badges, platforms, and paths for earning
Challenges to Adoption
ValueDo badges/microcredentials mean anything? Do employers value them?
TrustAre issuers valid? Does the recipient deserve the badge?
Equivalency• How do badges compare to certificates or degrees?
Mozilla Open Badge Backpack
• Repository for saving badges• Framework for displaying badges
• Learn more at openbadges.org
Step 1: Create a Mozilla Persona Account
• Go to backpack.openbadges.org/• Click Log In or Sign Up • Enter your information
TIP: Choose an email address you can check during this session
Step 2: Give us your email address
• Go to j.mp/fsi15_claimbadge• Enter your name and the email address you
used for your Mozilla account
Note: Personal information will only be used to distribute the badges
Using Microcredentials in Teaching
Why Use Badges?
Recognition Motivation
ETR 531 – Educational Program Evaluation
12-week Graduate level course
Students working toward M.S. Ed in Instructional Technology
Badges rewarded students for mastering evaluation concepts
Badges for ETR 531
Evaluation Measures Mastery
Disability in Society MOOC
Perspectives on Disability
10-week Massive Open Online Course(MOOC)
Instead of grades, participants earned badges
Badges for Perspectives on Disability
Week 1
Week 10
Lessons learned
Students liked the badges & certificate
Was ideal for providing recognition without grading
Easy to set up
Discussion How would you use microcredentials or badges in your teaching?
Creating and Issuing Badges
Formula for Making Badges
Image + metadata = badge
Image
No secret – it’s just an image
Usually square
Metadata
• Proves that the badges was earned• Validates the issuer, the criteria, the evidence
Metadata is what creates trust in badges
Metadata{
"uid": "f2c20", "recipient": {
"type": "email", "hashed": true, "salt": "deadsea", "identity":
"sha256$c7ef86405ba71b85acd8e2e95166c4b111448089f2e1599f42fe1bba46e865c5" }, "image": "https://example.org/beths-robot-badge.png", "evidence": "https://example.org/beths-robot-work.html", "issuedOn": 1359217910, "badge": "https://example.org/robotics-badge.json", "verify": {
"type": "hosted", "url": "https://example.org/beths-robotics-badge.json"
} }
Learn More About Badge MetaDatawiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Onboarding-Issuer
Badge Images
Made with PowerPoint
Program EvaluationETR 531
PROSPECTUS
Program EvaluationETR 531
LOGIC MODEL
Program EvaluationETR 531
EVALUATION DESIGN
GREAT CONTRIBUTOR
ETR 531Program Evaluation
Program EvaluationETR 531
MEASURES
Program EvaluationETR 531
EVALUATION MANAGEMENT
Program EvaluationETR 531
EVALUATION PLAN
Program EvaluationETR 531
EVALUATION PRESENTATION
Other Tools for Making Badge Graphics
• Adobe Illustrator• Adobe Photoshop• Inkscape (free)
• OpenBadges.me
Issuing Badges
Tools for Creating Metadata
• BadgeKit• Purdue Passport• Credly• Blackboard Achievements
Create a Badge with Credly
1. Go to credly.com2. Click the Customize This button3. Create a Credly account if you want to save or
issue your badge
Accepting a Badge
Learn moreMozilla Open Badgeswww.openbadges.org/
Badge Alliancewww.badgealliance.org/
7 Things You Should Know About Badgeswww.educause.edu/library/resources/7-things-you-should-know-about-badges
7 Things You Should Read About Badgeswww.educause.edu/library/resources/7-things-you-should-read-about-badges
Questions?
Cameron WillsResearch Associate
[email protected]@MetaWills
Stephanie RichterAssistant [email protected]
@slrichter
Slides available at j.mp/fsi15badges