Sarah Blattner's Public Library. Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory. What is a digital badge?
A digital badge is a validated indicator of accomplishment, skill, quality, or interest that can be earned in many learning environments. Open badging makes it easy for anyone to issue, earn, and display badges across the web—through a shared infrastructure that's free and open to all. The world is changing fast and, today more than ever, traditional modes of assessment fail to capture the learning that happens everywhere and at every age. Digital badges are a powerful new tool for identifying and validating the rich array of people's skills, knowledge, accomplishments, and competencies.
Digital badges inspire new pathways to learning and connect learners to opportunities, resources, and one another. Resources The Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition was supported by the John D. and Catherine T. Carla-research. Digital Badges - Educational Technology. General Badge Info - Learning today happens everywhere.
But it's often difficult to get recognition for skills and achievements that happen online or out of school. Mozilla Open Badges helps solve that problem, making it easy for any organization to issue, manage and display digital badges across the web. Badges with a button maker from American Button Machines. We have the machine that does 1 inch round buttons. The exact system we purchased is here.
Its been great for us so far. Open Badge Initiative(OBI) - The OBI isn’t a badge issuing platform. Articles About BadgesSites Using BadgesHere are a couple references that talk about the digital badges in case you are unfamiliar with this trend:Blog: Badges in the Real World by openmatt blog. Article: Forget the College Degree, Earn Badges Instead by Lynn O'Shaughnessy eSchool News Article: Digital Badges could help measure 21st Century Skills.
Digital Badges: An Annotated Research Bibliography v1. This annotated bibliography is a first step toward organizing literature about digital badges, open badges and badge systems.
This domain involves multiple streams of literature from education, learning sciences, library and information science, reputation systems, and systems design. The bibliography includes peer-reviewed and non peer-reviewed articles, blog posts, news articles, white papers, videos, wikis and FAQs. We acknowledge that digital badges are an emerging topic and we have attempted to include a full spectrum of viewpoints.
In light of this, we have chosen to provide descriptive rather than evaluative annotations. Digital Badges: An Annotated Research Bibliography selected and annotated by Sheryl Grant and Kristan E. Why a Badges Bibliography? This annotated bibliography is a first step toward organizing literature about digital badges, open badges and badge systems. How to cite: Grant, S. & Shawgo, K.E. (2013). Return to top of page Adams, J., & DeFleur, M. (2006). Computer Science Student Network. Carnegie Mellon University & University of Pittsburgh Collaborative Badge Research CS2N is involved in research in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh's Learning Research and Development Center.
Ongoing Studies Here you will find a listing of our published articles and papers. Teaching Programming through Robotics Liu, A., Schunn, C. Badges, Motivation, and Assessment Abramovich, S., Schunn, C.D., Higashi, R. (2013) Are Badges Useful in Education? Approaches in Teaching Mathematics and Robotics King, S., Stein, M., Schunn, C.D., (2012, May).Designing Educative Guides: Reconceptualizing Teacher's Role in Teacherless Cognitive Tutor-based Robotics Instruction.Paper presented at the 2012 annual meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education, Vancouver, BC.
Other Notable Research Badge Research National Studies around CS-STEM.