Identify Skills [June 8, 2012, 12:11 p.m.]
Your Task.
In the comments section below, tell us:
- Which skills your badge represents?
- Which course will offer the badge?
- What type of badge will it be?
Which Skills Are You Assessing?
As an organizers, the badge should directly correspond to the learning goals of your P2PU course. A strong connection between goals and badges makes the assessment relevant. For instance, in HTML Hunting in the World Around You, HTML Basic Badge directly corresponds to learning the, well, basics of HTML.
While it would be awesome, an "Internet Browsing Monster" badge would not be a relevant badge here, because browsing the web isn't a goal of the course. Make sense? :)
What Is The Badge For?
What event in the learning process does the badge recognize? A few options:
- Is the badge for the completion of a project or task? A “Skill” badge is most appropriate. Learners apply for that badge upon completion of a project or task.
- Is the badge for a trait a learner demonstrates? “Community” badges are what peers award to each other--maybe for giving Helpful Feedback or being a Team Player.
- Is the badge about user’s activity? “Stealth” badges are earned automatically by usage on the site. For instance, learners get the Beta Hero badge by completing all tasks in a challenge.
A Word on Skill, Community and Stealth Badges
Skill Badge
- requires submissions
- minimum N number of votes to be awarded (default and preferably 3 or 2)
- minimum M average rating (default and preferebly 3)
- can be associated with a task of the challenge so the user is promt to submit to the badge while (s)he is marking the task as completed
Community Bagde
- users give this badge to their peers
- appears in the give badge dialog on discussion areas of the challenges
- users can receive multiple badges of this comming from different peers
- no submissions
Submission-Enabled Community Badge
- Extends Community Badge to also allo users to optionally post a submission that others can accept
Challenge Completion Badge (Stealth)
- given automatically to anyone that marks all the challenge tasks as completed