Microcredentialing: Recognizing Student Learning with Digital Badges
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The document discusses microcredentialing and digital badges as visual representations of students' achievements and skills, emphasizing their role in recognizing learning outcomes. It covers the lifecycle of badges, their value to employers, and challenges associated with their adoption, including trust and equivalency to traditional credentials. The document also provides guidelines on creating, issuing, and utilizing badges in educational settings to enhance student motivation and recognition.
Microcredentialing: Recognizing Student Learning with Digital Badges
- 1. Microcredentialing: Recognizing Student Learning with Digital Badges
- 2. Presenters Cameron Wills Research Associate cwills@niu.edu @MetaWills Stephanie Richter Assistant Director srichter@niu.edu @slrichter
- 4. The landscape of learning is changing…
- 6. What are Badges? Visual representations of achievements, learning, skills, interests, & competencies
- 7. 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)
- 8. Digital Badges – Examples
- 9. Digital Badges – Examples
- 10. Badge Alliance
- 13. 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)
- 14. Badge vs. Microcredential • Some debate on the difference • Formative vs. summative assessment • Incremental vs. Comprehensive
- 15. Common terminology Lifecycle Creating > Issuing > Displaying Stacking “Upgrading” badges to higher level achievements Ecosystem Overall badging architecture, including badges, platforms, and paths for earning
- 16. Challenges to Adoption Value Do badges/microcredentials mean anything? Do employers value them? Trust Are issuers valid? Does the recipient deserve the badge? Equivalency How do badges compare to certificates or degrees?
- 17. Mozilla Open Badge Backpack • Repository for saving badges • Framework for displaying badges • Learn more at openbadges.org
- 18. 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
- 19. Step 2: Give us your email address • Go to facdev.niu.edu/slate15claimbadge • Enter your name and the email address you used for your Mozilla account Note: Personal information will only be used to distribute the badges
- 20. Using Microcredentials in Teaching
- 21. Why Use Badges? Recognition Motivation
- 22. 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
- 23. Badges for ETR 531
- 25. Discussion How would you use microcredentials or badges in your teaching?
- 26. Creating and Issuing Badges
- 27. Formula for Making Badges Image + metadata = badge
- 28. Image No secret – it’s just an image Usually square
- 29. Metadata • Proves that the badges was earned • Validates the issuer, the criteria, the evidence Metadata is what creates trust in badges
- 30. 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 MetaData wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Onboarding-Issuer
- 31. Badge Images
- 32. Made with PowerPoint Program Evaluation ETR 531 PROSPECTUS Program Evaluation ETR 531 LOGIC MODEL Program Evaluation ETR 531 EVALUATION DESIGN GREAT CONTRIBUTOR ETR 531 Program Evaluation Program Evaluation ETR 531 MEASURES Program Evaluation ETR 531 EVALUATION MANAGEMENT Program Evaluation ETR 531 EVALUATION PLAN Program Evaluation ETR 531 EVALUATION PRESENTATION
- 33. Other Tools for Making Badge Graphics • Adobe Illustrator • Adobe Photoshop • Inkscape (free) • OpenBadges.me
- 34. Issuing Badges
- 35. Tools for Creating Metadata • BadgeKit • Purdue Passport • Credly • Blackboard Achievements
- 36. Create a Badge with Credly 1. Go to credly.com 2. Click the Customize This button 3. Create a Credly account if you want to save or issue your badge
- 38. Learn more Mozilla Open Badges www.openbadges.org/ Badge Alliance www.badgealliance.org/ 7 Things You Should Know About Badges www.educause.edu/library/resources/7-things-you-should- know-about-badges 7 Things You Should Read About Badges www.educause.edu/library/resources/7-things-you-should- read-about-badges
- 39. Questions? Cameron Wills Research Associate cwills@niu.edu @MetaWills Stephanie Richter Assistant Director srichter@niu.edu @slrichter Slides available at facdev.niu.edu/slate15badges