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Badges for Learning Research. Beyond Badges: Why Gamify? Learn to code. ClassBadges. Six Ways to Look at Badging Systems Designed for Learning. Six Ways to Look at Badging Systems Designed for Learning Initiated by Barry Joseph, Global Kids, Inc.

Six Ways to Look at Badging Systems Designed for Learning

Written by Barry with scores of others* Introducing the DML Design Principles Documentation Project. I want to introduce the DML Badges Design Principles Documentation project.

Introducing the DML Design Principles Documentation Project

This two-year project was launched at Indiana University in July 2012. The project intends to document the badge design principles that emerge from the Badges for Lifelong Learning initiative sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning program. In this post, I describe our general goals and seek input on accomplishing these goals. There are specific questions at the end if you want to jump ahead. Why Document Badge Design Principles? The roughly 30 badge content projects funded under DML 2012 are all now underway. Regardless of where you start, it’s more than likely you’ll end up somewhere other than your intended destination. This reality was highlighted by Charles Perry of awardee Mentor Mob at the recent DML Badges workshop.

How Badges Really Work in Higher Education. IT Trends | Feature How Badges Really Work in Higher Education Digital badge initiatives at colleges and universities across the country are challenging assumptions about learning and assessment.

How Badges Really Work in Higher Education

In 2011, as the University of California, Davis added a new major in sustainable agriculture and food systems, it sought to create a curriculum that would help students develop competencies for addressing the environmental, social, and economic challenges involving agriculture. Because much of the work takes place outside the classroom, administrators wanted students to create their own portfolios where they could demonstrate all types of learning and activities.

The Disruption Higher Ed Doesn’t See Coming (and how it could respond, even lead, but probably won’t) No, not MOOCs.

The Disruption Higher Ed Doesn’t See Coming (and how it could respond, even lead, but probably won’t)

Badges. Ok, now that you’ve stopped laughing (I admit, even I have a hard time not dismissively thinking of the sleeves of my Cub Scout shirt when I hear the term) let me explain why badges, as they mature beyond where they are currently, have the potential to disrupt formal education in a way that none of the technology innovations we’ve seen in the last couple of decades have.

Over those two decades, essentially the duration of my working life so far, every time I have tried to explain the magnitude of the disruptions (and the amount of potentials) that the network presents to formal education institutions (especially post secondary ones) the trump card interlocuters ALWAYS bring out to minimize the potential threat is “Accreditation.” Again, I’ll give you a second to stop laughing. Inline_mowt6iWcef1qz4rgp.png (413×750) Gamification Badges for Moodle Learning Motivation! CGI BADGES FInecut. Badge System Design Reboot. Stablish.me. Stablish.me. The OnPhD Candidacy Badge System. OpenBadges.me. Integrating the badge designer We've built our badge designer so that it can plug easily into other software applications.

OpenBadges.me

The designer can be launched seamlessly from your own tools, allowing for rich graphics to be created, and then a published graphic sent back to your code as a Base64 encoded PNG or JSON string. Read more about integrating with our API documentation. Let us know what you think We love the potential of the Mozilla Open Badges initiative and want to be a part of what's going on, that's the reason we built the badge designer in the first place. If you've got an idea, an image suggestion, an integration opportunity or anything else you'd like to contribute then you can let us know on our feedback page or by dropping an email to product-manager@myknowledgemap.com.

MyKnowledgeMap Ltd. » MyKnowledgeMap for Mobile Assessment and Learning Systems. Ob-awareness.myknowledgemap.com/MKM_open-badges_portable-rewards-for-learner-achievements.pdf. Higher York Open Badges Workshop. Rethinking Digital Badges. Over the past couple of years, digital badges have become a hot topic in higher education.

Rethinking Digital Badges

In his poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” Wallace Stevens writes that he was “of three minds / Like a tree / In which there are three blackbirds.” Me, I’m of many minds, like a professor in a university in which there are proliferating ways of recognizing student learning and experience. Badges and Learning — LearningTimes. Badges and Learning In today’s ultra-connected and rapidly-changing world, people learn both on their own, as well as from experts and communities, and they learn in formal and informal contexts.

Badges and Learning — LearningTimes

We developed a system to bring all of this learning together, fostering ongoing community engagement, and helping people share their achievements and knowledge with the world. We call it BadgeOS™. Get to Know Badges. Background.

Get to Know Badges

Badges are a lightweight, engaging way to recognize learning. At P2PU, we've pioneered the use of badges as assessment. Check out our published paper on the subject. Our badge model even scaled for a pilot of 500 learners with our Webmaking 101 Challenge. We've won grants for our badge program, to boot. But how do badges actually work? Say you’re designing a Challenge at P2PU.

You’d like to make a badge yourself. Overview. The badge creation process has just a few steps. Open Badges: Portable Credentials for Learning by Bill Brandon. “Are badges frivolous, superficial, or worthless?

Open Badges: Portable Credentials for Learning by Bill Brandon

Will employers, job applicants, and providers use them or not? Time will tell, but what is certain is that the way is open to anyone who wants to learn almost anything and to do it at the time and location of their choosing. Grades Out, Badges In - College, Reinvented. Ambiguity, OER & Open Badges. Digital Badges. Open Badges.