Digital badges are an awesome way to recognize merit, strengths, behaviors and skill achievement in students and adults. For many years people have received recognition for their efforts and achievements. Sometimes they are given a certificate, medal, diploma or letter. However, it has always been hard to share this recognition to a wider audience. It was also hard to give these awards in a way that is easily shared and can scale to much larger groups.
Thanks to digital badges, those issues are beginning to disappear. This workshop discusses the possibilities, thanks to the introduction of digital badges, that are now available to the world.
6. Today’s Take Aways
• What are digital badges?
• Starting a badge program
• Designing your first badges
• Badge tech
• Future of badges
• My learnings
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10. !
The humble badge in some form, has been worn for hundreds of years and has
been used as a tool to signify political allegiance or contempt, social injustice,
support or disdain for the monarchy and more recently as a symbol of global
protest over issues such as war, peace, race-relations and regime change.
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As far back as early mediaeval times, people have shown a fascination for badges.
Wearing badges also expressed a sense of belonging, and during the 19th century
they were used by trade-unionists and politicians to declare their membership or
support of a particular group.
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The earliest badges we know of are from the 12th century when badges were
made with the engraved faces of St Peter and St Paul. Pilgrims would wear them
as a sign of their devotion and to prove their faith and these badges would have
been the popular promotional gift of the time. Pilgrimages became even more
popular in the 14th century and many gatherings used to take place at the
famous Tabard Inn in Southwark, London for pilgrims on their way to the annual
pilgrimage in Canterbury Cathedral. Badges have been found by the banks of the
Thames near Tabard Inn where it is possible that the pilgrims might have thrown
their badges into the river as a ritual or out of superstition, like throwing a coin
in the Trevi Fountain today to make a wish.
In 1807 William Wilberforce purchased 50,000 medallions to promote the Anti
Slavery cause that he was passionate about. In what was probably one of the
first promotional badges made for a political cause, it was the campaign which led
to the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 which abolished slavery in most of the
46. Things to Think About
• What behavior(s) are
you try to change?
• What behavior(s) are
you try increase?
• What action are you
trying to create?
• What else?
47. Assignment
• Come up with a list of
“whys”
• Share them here:
tinyurl.com/badgefun
49. What do ya want to
happen?
• What types of specific
behaviors do you
want to increase or
decrease?
• What types of specific
actions do you want
to increase or
decrease?
50. Case Study:
Organization
• Take more than the minimum
number of classes
• Interact with others online
• Design a course for Concordia
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61. Level 1
Planner
Locker
Home
work
Percentage
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Filled out Filled out Filled out Filled out
for two
for four
for six
for eight
weeks
weeks
weeks
weeks
Survived Survived Survived Survived
two locker four locker six locker eight locker
checks
checks
checks
checks
Homework Homework Homework Homework
turned in for turned in for turned in for turned in for
two weeks
four weeks
six weeks
eight weeks
100
85
40
15
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62. Assignment
• Come up with a list of
leveled badges
• Share them here:
tinyurl.com/badgefun
68. Things to Consider
• Role of Currency
• Intrinsic v. Extrinsic
Motivators
• Who Will Make the
Badges?
• When Will You Reset?
• How Long Should the
Program Run
87. In House Designer
Create
Badge
badg.us
WP Badger
OBI Compliant system
Award
Badge
Upload to website or
WPPlugin: WPBadgeDisplay
Display
Badge
Institutional Route
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118. ■ In June 2013, the Clinton Global Initiative announced a
commitment to help 1 million students and 1 million U.S.
workers access opportunities through badges. Non-profit
organizations, universities, civic organizations,
technology providers, employers, and others are teaming
up to meet this challenge.
■ Blackboard’s recent integration with the Mozilla Open
Badges framework enables educators around the world to
become badge issuers to millions of students who can use
their badge achievements portably in their online
identities and resumes.
■ Mozilla, Blackboard, WCET and Sage Road Solutions are
bringing together academic, governmental, civic, and
corporate thought leaders to contribute to a MOOC,
“Badges: New Currency for Professional Credentials,”
that will foster and strengthen emerging badge
ecosystems.
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