Soft Certificationof

Participant Engagement and Task Completionthrough

Open Badges

Teresa MacKinnon,Principal Teaching Fellow, SFHEASchool of Modern Languages and Cultures

#Clavier project:

● large scale virtual exchange Warwick/Clermont Ferrand, France

● Formal and informal learning, shared space on EWC● professional development for staff ● connected educators extending to Poland, Sweden,

Japan, US, Finland...#clavedu G+ community

“...the future belongs to those who learn to work together with other groups without regard to location, heritage, and national and cultural difference” (Grandin & Hedderich, 2009)

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Cross and Galley (2012) Typology of badges

Pattern of EWC activity pre- and post implementation of open badges.

Preliminary conclusions:

Badges provide a route to the acquisition of complex skills, confidence builds competence.

Badge collection should not become the means and the end, but remain the means to an end, namely enhanced learner motivation.

Badges can help to balance extrinsic and intrinsic motivation.

Badge selection and positioning must be informed by learning design and not the other way round.

Badges can gamify learning but should be chosen and placed with care to support learner ownership of learning progress.

References:

Cross, Simon and Galley, Rebecca (2012) MOOC Badging and the Learning Arc. Blog post 16 November 2012. Available from: http://oro.open.ac.uk/42038

O’Dowd, R., & Ware, P. (2009). Critical issues in telecollaborative task design. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 22(2), 173–188.

The Mozilla Foundation and Peer 2 Peer University (no date). Open Badges for Lifelong Learning. Working Document. Retrieved 19.01.2015 from https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/5/59/OpenBadges-Working-Paper_012312.pdf

Clavier on uni-collaboration.eu http://uni-collaboration.eu/?q=node/302

O’Dowd, R. (2013). The competencies of the telecollaborative teacher https://warwick.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/Rob+O%27Dowd+presenting+at+cwil+day+2/1_e530960x

Haulk, M and MacKinnon,T. (2015). Soft certification of participant engagement and task completion https://warwick.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/COIL+recording+final/1_aoyjttqe/6610831