Digital Badges in Higher Ed: An Emergent and Transformative Technology for Engaged Learning (256161382)

8/9/2019 Digital Badges in Higher Ed: An Emergent and Transformative Technology for Engaged Learning (256161382)

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Digital Badges in Higher Education:

An Emergent and TransformativeTechnology for Engaged Learning

Chris Gamrat – Penn State University

Daniel Hickey – Indiana UniversitySteve Lonn – University of Michigan

@cgamrat @dthickey @stevelonn







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Who’s Using Digital Badges

in Higher Education?•

Seton Hall University

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UC Davis

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Purdue University•

Portland State University

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University of Arizona

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University of Illinois•

MOOC Providers

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Piloting Digital Badging at Penn State

Chris Gamrat

Instructional DesignerOnline Learning Design & Innovation

@cgamrat



Penn State Pilots

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Libraries

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College of Liberal Arts

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NASA Educator Professional Development





College of Liberal Arts

(Representing Exemplar Values andQualities)







Connecting students’

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What Do Badges “Get” Students?

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• 600 badge content proposals

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29 content developers supported• 3 platforms supported







Capturing “Practical Wisdom”

• Aristotle’s Phronesis –

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• Bent Flyvbjerg(2001) –

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Rich Halverson(2004) –

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Categories of Badge

Purposes and Functions • Recognizing Learning

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Skills, achievements, experiences, &practices

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Individual, peer, social

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Assessing Learning –

Summative, formative, transformative, &transcendent

• Motivating Learning –

Intrinsic, extrinsic, & participatory • Studying Learning

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Research of, for, & with digital badges



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Practices Intended Practices

- Ideas outlined in originalproposals

Enacted Practices

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Use Badges to Map Learning Trajectories: Intended

Recognition Practice in 17 Projects

• 12 project used “leveled” badges –

LevelUp, Global Pathways, Who Built America,Story Corps U, Roadtrip Nation, News Hour,

BuzzMath, Design for America, Intel,Manufacturing Badges, and AQUAPONS

• 6 projects used routes or pathways throughmetabadges –

4H, BuzzMath, MOUSE Wins, Planet Stewards,S2R Medals, SA&FS

• 1 project used both –

BuzzMath





Other Current

Badges Resources



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Project Goals

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Advance open badges in higher education

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Help innovators develop effective systems

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Develop badge extensions for major LMSs

– Already built badges xBlock for Open edX

– Working on Canvas, D2L, Blackboard,Moodle, etc

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Share open case library of examples – Focus on lessons learned, problems solved

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Help entrepreneurs thrive and connect



Thank You!

• Chris Gamrat – [email protected]

– @cgamrat

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Dan Hickey – [email protected]

– @dthickey

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Steve Lonn – [email protected]

– @stevelonn

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Digital Badges in Higher Ed: An Emergent and Transformative Technology for Engaged Learning (256161382)