Badges IIVISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF ACHIEVEMENTS, LEARNING, SKILLS, COMPETENCIES

•Badges are NOT a threat to current educational processes or institutions

•Badges work by capturing assessments in different ways

US Dept. of Education Viewpoint

• “Badges can help engage students in learning, and broaden the avenues for learners of all ages to acquire and demonstrate – as well as document and display – their skills,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in 2011.

•Duncan also linked badging to competency-based education, saying it “can help speed the shift from credentials that simply measure seat time, to ones that more accurately measure competency.”

Remember…Grades are Symbols with Implicit Meaning

•Can represent….•Formal Learning Pathways•Hard and soft skills

Thus transcripts or degrees are pretty limited in “meaning”, students want a broader representation of their experiences.

Digital Badges are a Visual Representation of Learning

Two Emerging Archetypes of Badges

Functions of Badges

Current Industry Badges

•National Manufacturing Institute M-Badge

•SkillsUSA

•Microsoft Certification

•Cisco Certification

Institutions & Companies Using Badges

• Purdue University

• Penn State

• University of Indiana

• Colorado State University – Ft. Collins

• University of Denver

• Deloitte

• City of New York

• City of Chicago

• ACE and the US Military

• Samsung

• LearnDash

• Extreme Networks

• LinkedIn

• Khan Academy

City of Chicago Badges

CSU’s Integrated Sustainability Management Program

University of Indiana’s Badges for Educational Assessment

A Badge is like an …..

Anatomy of a Digital Badge

The Validity of a Badge

•Technical Standards•Meta Data Standard• Identifies all the associated material of the badge•Can be displayed

Badges are based on Demonstrating Mastery

•Assessments

•Portfolio of work

•Certifications

•Field work in real time documented with images, movies….

Demonstrating Mastery can be….

Issuing Badges

• Access the badge

Badge

• Identify grandular Competencies

Competencies

Accepting Badges

Meta Data

URL

For CCCS, the URL will be:

badges.cccs.edu

Criteria

Badges Help Anyone Standout From a Crowd

Earn this Badge by taking this quiz

http://quizrevolution.com/ch/a209867