Open Badges and assessment

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Week 4 - Evidence base for #openbadges (3-9 September 2011)

Got an idea of what we should focus on in Week 4? Add it below! :-)

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  • Jacky Hood   Sept. 9, 2011, 12:22 a.m.

    A relevant event next week:

    Digital Media and Learning Competition 4: Badges for Lifelong Learning

    The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with Mozilla and HASTAC, invite you to an event on September 15th at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC and online at hastac.org/DML-competition-launch to explore the potential of Badges for Lifelong Learning. Badges are a new assessment tool that will help identify skills mastered in formal and informal settings, virtually and in physical spaces, and in schools, workplaces and communities.

    Featured speakers include:

        The Honorable Arne Duncan, Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
        Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Administrator, NASA
        Emily Stover DeRocco, President, The Manufacturing Institute and the National Center for the  American Workforce
        Mark Surman, Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation

  • Jacky Hood   Sept. 9, 2011, 12:40 a.m.
    In Reply To:   Jacky Hood   Sept. 9, 2011, 12:22 a.m.

    I see now that Doug posted this event elsewhere on this P2PU class -- maybe I was not the only one who missed it -- I will leave the posting here.

  • Thomas Gokey   Sept. 10, 2011, 4:52 p.m.
    In Reply To:   Jacky Hood   Sept. 9, 2011, 12:22 a.m.

    This is interesting. How does it work? Can you apply for a small grant?

    I'm looking for $4,000-$5,000 for the spring to cover a class.

  • Jacky Hood   Aug. 30, 2011, 3:20 p.m.

    Here is one of the few scholarly papers about badges:

    Badges in Social Media: A Social Psychological Perspective
    Authors:Antin, J.; Churchill, E.F.
    Source: CHI 2011, ACM, Vancouver, BC (2011)

    http://research.yahoo.com/node/3469

    It would be interesting to discuss this paper and to talk about how to get more research done on badges for open education.

  • AndiRehak   Sept. 1, 2011, 8:17 a.m.
    In Reply To:   Jacky Hood   Aug. 30, 2011, 3:20 p.m.

    This is indeed interested but it seems this paper is missing some important sections to really be beneficial such as their methods or the origins of the badge functions.  Is there possibly a more complete article that this is just a snapshot of?

  • Doug Belshaw   Sept. 3, 2011, 2:34 p.m.
    In Reply To:   Jacky Hood   Aug. 30, 2011, 3:20 p.m.

    I haven't read it yet, but do you think it's a good paper to discuss in Week 4, Jacky? :-)

  • Doug Belshaw   Sept. 8, 2011, 5:08 a.m.
    In Reply To:   Jacky Hood   Aug. 30, 2011, 3:20 p.m.

    Badges in Social Media: A Social Psychological Perspective
    Authors:Antin, J.; Churchill, E.F.
    Source: CHI 2011, ACM, Vancouver, BC (2011)

    http://research.yahoo.com/node/3469

    Apart from the above paper, does anyone know of journal articles, etc. about Open Badges? 

  • Jacky Hood   Sept. 9, 2011, 12:38 a.m.
    In Reply To:   Doug Belshaw   Sept. 3, 2011, 2:34 p.m.

    When I posted this, the topic for Week 4 had not yet been selected.