Kerstin Namuth said:
There are several areas where I would like to deploy Badges. For example in my organisation’s Moodle training courses for teachers/IT support persons.
There is a long list of skills that teachers need in order to run and/or create courses in Moodle. Badges could make the boring parts (learning about technical functionalities and settings) more fun and they could reward attitudes which we would like to encourage.
A range of badges at several levels and for different Moodle-related skills would support a modular approach to learning to use Moodle. This could replace our rather comprehensive “Moodle driving license”.
I can see a variety of paths to gain badges:
- A teacher can take the long course for Moodle teachers/course creators, either F2F or the online version of it and all the badges will pop up along the road.
- A teacher can do separate chunks of the course and earn badges like Moodle collaborator (tasks: Set up a forum och get a disussion going) or Basic publisher (tasks: publish a link and a text) or Creative publisher (task: publish 5 different types of digital content and make them pretty) or Trouble shooter (task: solve a technical problem or help a colleague).
- teachers can also get badges for skills they already have when they show some piece of evidence, e.g. a concrete task they have set up for their students and their pedagogical reflections on it.
- colleagues could meet up for a workshop and work towards a badge together.
Intended side effect
Moodle supports badges and an intended side effect would be that teachers get to know badges as a pedagogical tool and want to try them out in their own courses.