Mini-presentation within ELI's shortcourse: "Digging into Badges" AUDIO: play mp3 accompanying these slides at: http://ofcoursesonline.com/badging%20at%20ucf%20audio.mp3

1. Digital Badging @ UCF
Dr. Kelvin Thompson
Dr. Beth Nettles
University of Central Florida
Mini-Presentation within ELI’s short course: “Digging into Badges”

2. Badge or Be Badged
A Little Background

7. Badging the InfoLitMods
An Institutional Pilot

8. http://infolit.ucf.edu

10. • 13,840 assessment completions by
• 4,433 students in
• 422 course sections taught or led by
• 94 faculty members who created
• 430 instances of
• 4 information literacy modules with an
average score of
• 85.30% across all modules' summative
assessments.
InfoLitMods Year One (2008-2009)

11. • 38,423 assessment completions by
• 8,082 students in
• 159 unique courses taught or led by
• 160 faculty members who created
• 1275 instances of
• 13 information literacy modules with an
average score of
• 85.19% across all modules' summative
assessments.
InfoLitMods Year Four (2011-2012)

12. http://credly.com

13. Obojobo
(Module Platform)
UCF Middleware
Credly
(UX)

14. Obojobo
(Module Platform)
UCF Middleware
Credly
(UX)
InstitutionalData(Mitigates risk)

15. Obojobo
(Module Platform)
UCF Middleware
Credly
(UX)
InstitutionalData(Mitigates risk)
Free API

16. How Does It Work?
Structure of Pilot Project

23. Communication Plan
● InfoLit web site
● Email to faculty
currently using
InfoLit Modules
● Illuminations
newsletter
● Webcourses@UCF
listserv
● IF Office
● FCTL
● Library digital
signage
● Installments
● SDES venues
● New Faculty
Orientation
● New Student
Orientation
● Twitter/Facebook
● Subject Librarians’
Newsletters

24. Support

25. Roles
It Takes a Village

26. • Oversight: Kelvin Thompson
• Management: Beth Nettles
• Developers: Ian Turgeon, Zach Berry, Jacob Bates
• Graphic designer: Kyler Wilson
• InfoLitMod Partners: Librarians
- Elizabeth Killingsworth & Corinne Bishop
• Digital Badging Committee: (those above plus)
Tom Cavanagh, Shea Silverman, Andre Watts, Linda
Futch , Francisca Yonekura, Elisabeth Greenwood
Pilot Badging Team

27. So How’s It Going?
Initial Findings from Week One of Pilot

28. Initial Data
1044 - badges sent via institutional email addresses
634 - individual students who’ve earned badges
10 - students earning badges from non-assigned mods
4 (1 student) - Number of badges claimed via Credly

29. Observations
● Earners driven by assignment (currently)
● Watching for student-driven uptick later
● Troubleshoot module-to-middleware process
● Potential value in each phase of badging:
○ Notification email
○ Claiming (“Save and Share”)
○ Making public

30. What Next?
Phase II and Beyond for Badges @ UCF

31. What’s in the Hopper?
● UCF Phase II: Professional development
offerings
● Test current process with BlendKit2013
● Discussions of “campus life” badging
● Other pockets of interest emerging on
campus
● Build vs. buy decision could emerge

32. Questions?
kelvin@ucf.edu
enettles@ucf.edu