Badges in Blackboard Validating achievements. A Brief History - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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 and compelling skills, from school life to real life.”

Who’s Using Them? • Mozilla, Peer-to-Peer University (P2PU), and Khan Academy • Hu ffi ngton Post, Foursquare • Disney-Pixar, 4H, NASA • Soon to come: PBS, Intel, and the US Department of Education

Implementation in Blackboard • Achievements T ool – Coming with installation of Service Pack 13 – Includes Certificates and Badges • Achievements are not awarded arbitrarily and are based on specific student performance metrics

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

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

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

Demonstration in Test Site

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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)

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 13 th 2013 to expand the use of Open Badges (New Y ork Times) • Chicago’s initiative keeps kids learning all summer - As kids complete activities, they earn digital badges from the city (Chicago Sun-Times 2013)

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.

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 21 st Century Resume with metadata

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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