Quality Matters Presentation Handout- Digital Badges in the News From Mel Edwards

1. College uses digital badges to replace grading

Published Online: June 13, 2012

http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2012/06/13/03badges-s1.h05.html

2. Digital Badges Threaten Colleges’ Monopoly on Credentials

Jan. 20, 2012 | 9:00 a.m. EST

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2012/01/20/digital-badges-threaten-colleges-monopoly-on-credentials

3. Open Badge Passport – Digital Medial and Learning Competition – One of the Winners

http://dmlcompetition.net/proposals/open-badge-passport/

4. A Future Full of Badges

April 8, 2012

http://chronicle.com/article/A-Future-Full-of-Badges/131455/

5. “Badges” Earned online Post Challenge to Traditional College Diplomas

January 8, 2012

http://chronicle.com/article/Badges-Earned-Online-Pose/130241/

6. How Badges Really Work in Higher Education

06/20/13

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2013/06/20/how-badges-really-work-in-higher-education.aspx

7. Blackboard Validates Mozilla Digital Badges

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2013/06/19/blackboard-validates-mozilla-digital-badges.aspx

(Video within Article – Using Intelligent Agent technology to award badges within LMS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr6DKgx4sH8)

8. Edvance360 LMS-SN Gets Support for Digital Badges (Using Credly) 09/10/13

Credly:

Open Badge Infrastructure-compliant; An available API, called Open Credit; Support for custom icons for badges; and Support for WordPress via the BadgeOS plugin.

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2013/09/10/edvance360-lms-sn-gets-support-for-digital-badges.aspx

“This MSU-Northern/RevUp Montana workforce product was funded by a $1.7M grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration. The product was created by the grantee and does not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Department of Labor.”-Melissa “Mel” Edwards, MSU-Northern Energy Sector Curriculum Coordinator. 2014.

Quality Matters Presentation Handout- Digital Badges in the News From Mel Edwards

9. Awarding Badges in Moodle (Note: Default in Ver 2.5, can be administrator disabled) – Article includes a “how to” with screenshots

08/20/14

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2014/08/20/awarding-badges-in-moodle.aspx

12. U San Diego Deploys Intelligent To-Do App for Students

(App is named Insight: http://sites.sandiego.edu/mobile/)

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2015/03/25/u-san-diego-deploys-intelligent-to-do-app-for-students.aspx

13. Twelve (12) Important Trends in the ePortfolio Industry for Education and for Learning

09/19/12

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2012/09/19/12-important-trends-in-the-eportfolio-industry.aspx

14. DML Webinars – Badges for Lifelong Learning Community via HASTAC

Started Jun 26, 2013 – Archive of Webinars – I can spend a day here, easily!

http://www.hastac.org/collections/dml-badges-webinars

15. Pearson report: Open Badges for Higher Education

http://www.pearsoned.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Open-Badges-for-Higher-Education.pdf

16. 9 Ways Badges Are Better than Degrees

http://www.ecampusnews.com/top-news/digital-badges-degrees-324/

17. Understanding the Symbolism of Digital Badges

http://www.ecampusnews.com/top-news/symbolism-digital-badges-959/

18. Your Acclaim (developed by Pearson)

https://www.youracclaim.com/

19. Retention Strategies Across Campus

http://www.ecampusnews.com/technologies/retention-students-campus-572/2/

20. Platforms for Issuing Badges

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsHml-k4XnX7dHJQSDBrdUphYlprc1N0N09KMzFzckE#gid=0

21. Penn State Educational Gaming Commons

http://gaming.psu.edu/gamification/digital-badges/

“This MSU-Northern/RevUp Montana workforce product was funded by a $1.7M grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration. The product was created by the grantee and does not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Department of Labor.”-Melissa “Mel” Edwards, MSU-Northern Energy Sector Curriculum Coordinator. 2014.