digital badges @ ucf

Digital Badging @ UCFDr. Kelvin Thompson

Dr. Beth NettlesUniversity of Central Florida

Mini-Presentation within ELI’s short course: “Digging into Badges”

Badge or Be BadgedA Little Background

Badging the InfoLitModsAn Institutional Pilot

http://infolit.ucf.edu

• 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)

• 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)

http://credly.com

Obojobo(Module Platform)

UCF MiddlewareCredly(UX)

Obojobo(Module Platform)

UCF MiddlewareCredly(UX)

Institutional Data (Mitigates risk)

Obojobo(Module Platform)

UCF MiddlewareCredly(UX)

Institutional Data (Mitigates risk)

Free API

How Does It Work?Structure of Pilot Project

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

Support

Roles

It Takes a Village

• 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

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

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

1099 - assessments that should have delivered a badge

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

○ Linking to specific badges

What Next?Phase II and Beyond for Badges @ UCF

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

Questions?kelvin@ucf.edu

enettles@ucf.edu