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Badges in Blackboard Validating achievements. A Brief History Origins with US Army, Boy/Girl Scouts First digital achievements with Microsoft, 2005 Eva Baker, the path of Qualifications shifts attention from schoolwork to usable

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Badges in Blackboard

Validating achievements.

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A Brief History

  • Origins with US Army, Boy/Girl Scouts
  • First digital achievements with Microsoft,

2005

  • Eva Baker, “the path of Qualifications

shifts attention from schoolwork to usable and compelling skills, from school life to real life.”

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Who’s Using Them?

  • Mozilla, Peer-to-Peer University (P2PU),

and Khan Academy

  • Huffington Post, Foursquare
  • Disney-Pixar, 4H, NASA
  • Soon to come: PBS, Intel, and the US

Department of Education

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Implementation in Blackboard

  • Achievements T
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– Coming with installation of Service Pack 13 – Includes Certificates and Badges

  • Achievements are not awarded arbitrarily

and are based on specific student performance metrics

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Implementation in Blackboard

  • Example

– An Achievement could be tied to a student completing 4 assignments and have a final grade of 90%

  • Student can track progress of Achievements

earned and ones they still can earn

  • Students can see their progress on

Achievements they are working on

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Certificates

  • Certificates

– Certificates are 8x11 and can be printed – Certificates can only be viewed in Blackboard

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Badges

  • Digital Badges that students can collect
  • Badges can be pushed to Mozilla Open

Backpack

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Demonstration in Test Site

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View Achievement Earners

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Course Completion

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Badge Uses

  • Help students to document achievements

within the course and what goals remain

  • Provide students the ability to display

Badges to others (job interviews)

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Future of Badges

  • Working with Mozilla, the MacArthur

Foundation and a consortium interested in virtual learning, former President Bill Clinton announced a project on June 13th 2013 to expand the use of Open Badges (New Y

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Times)

  • Chicago’s initiative keeps kids learning all

summer - As kids complete activities, they earn digital badges from the city (Chicago Sun-Times 2013)

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Future of Badges

  • Badges for Lifelong Learning

Competition supported by:

– John D. and Catherine T . MacArthur Foundation – The Gates Foundation – Administered by co-located HAST AC teams based at the University of California Humanities Research Institute and John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.

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Using Badges

  • Blackboard
  • Moodle
  • Passport Assessment System by Purdue

University

  • University of Rhode Island, Harvard, and MIT

, recognize digital badge accomplishments in the admission process

  • Building a 21st Century Resume with metadata
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Readings

  • Research Design Principles for Studying Learning

with Digital Badges

– Daniel Hickey , Associate Prof & Program Head, Learning Sciences, Indiana University – http:/ /www.hastac.org/blogs/dthickey/2013/07 /07 /research- design-principles-studying-learning-digital-badges – Daniel Hickey was recently awarded a $400,000 grant by the MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning Initiative to study how digital badges,

  • Digital Badges in Higher Education: An Overview

– Brett Bixler and Ken Layng, ITS T raining Services, Penn State University – https:/ /docs.google.com/document/d/ 1UqNeLzIu0i0EkiqdJEivIJrqV J5Afikl7OSKKOzQgI8/ edit#

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Questions for Mia or Dan?