Badges Design Principles Documentation Project - Interim Report - January 2014. Design Principles for Assessment in Digital Badge Systems. Seed is your jumping off point, building the foundation for your project. It helps you define your idea, vision and audience. The Design Principles Documentation (DPD) Project followed the DML Badges for Lifelong Learning awardees as they proposed and implemented their badging systems. The DPD team categorized badging projects' practices in terms of using badges to recognize, assess, motivate, and study learning. The Seed Phase presents the recognition principles we found and links to the specific projects that enacted those principles. The Digital Media and Learning 2012 Badges for Lifelong Learning Initiative funded 30 projects to develop digital badge systems. This work focuses on the badging projects' assessment practices, and the implications of their assessment choices for learning.
Common practices were then categorized more general design principles for assessing learning in digital badge systems. Use rubrics (16): Projects used rubrics as an aid to score learner artifacts. Design Principles for Recognition in Digital Badge Systems. Sprout is the story of your project, its process and evolution. It illustrates how the work's getting done. Our initial concepts for this concern the external resources that we have located that are relevant to each of the standards. So far these are as follows, Use Badges to Map Learning Trajectories Community Research Partners (2008) published the report “Ohio Stackable Certificates: Models for Success,” describing a series of levels in which learners can advance through a certificate system.
This is similar to the levels of digital badges that map one’s learning trajectory. Align Badges to Standards In the report brief “Strengthening Transitions by Encouraging Career Pathways” by the Community College Research Center, Hughes and Karp (2006) describe alternative pathways for learners to transition into college and careers. Use Badges as an External Means of Communication of Learning In this article “What Do Educational Credentials Signal and Why do Employers Value Credentials?
Design Principles for Motivating Learning in Digital Badge Systems. Seed is your jumping off point, building the foundation for your project. It helps you define your idea, vision and audience. Many researchers and developers are divided on the role of digital badges in motivating learners. Skeptics of badges point out that they “worry that students will focus on accumulating badges rather than making connections with the ideas and material associated with the badges – the same way that students too often focus on grades in a class rather than the material in the class, or the points in an educational game rather than the ideas in the game” (Resnick, 2012).
Badge enthusiasts find promise in having a new way to assess learners apart from the “current multiple-choice form of testing doesn’t measure all that is being learned and de-motivates true curiosity” (Davidson, 2012). From the badge practices of the DML projects, we derived a set of design principles for motivating learning: Recognizing identities. Engaging with communities. Recognizing identities. Digital Badges Need Mass to Matter. Parts of the edtech world are abuzz about “open” digital badges. But despite the excitement about, and real potential of, these intelligent graphics in education they will need more than current passion or even eventual ubiquity to succeed. They will need to mean something to more than just those who give them or get them. A bit of background: one year ago in March, the Mozilla Foundation (perhaps best known for the Firefox web browser), released version 1.0 of the Open Badge Infrastructure. Students who achieve something worthy can be awarded, display, and share a digital Open Badge.
Think Scouting, but woven with pixels and metadata. Unlike earlier digital badges which were just static images that could be easily counterfeited by cut-and-paste, these have significant differences: So it’s no wonder that a lot of experimentation is going on with issuing Open Badges, fueled in part by early grants from the MacArthur Foundation. An Open Badge, by itself, means nothing. Absolutely not.