Full Description
In recent years, digital badging systems have become a credible means through which learners can establish portfolios and articulate knowledge and skills for both academic and professional settings. Digital Badges in Education provides the first comprehensive overview of this emerging tool. A digital badge is an online-based visual representation that uses detailed metadata to signify learners' specific achievements and credentials in a variety of subjects across K-12 classrooms, higher education, and workplace learning. Focusing on learning design, assessment, and concrete cases in various contexts, this book explores the necessary components of badging systems, their functions and value, and the possible problems they face. These twenty-five chapters illustrate a range of successful applications of digital badges to address a broad spectrum of learning challenges and to help readers formulate solutions during the development of their digital badges learning projects.
Contents
Part I: Trends and Issues
1. History and Context of Open Digital Badges
Sheryl L. Grant
2. Badges and Competencies: New Currency for Professional Credentials
Anne Derryberry, Deborah Everhart, and Erin Knight
3. The Case for Rigor in Open Badges
Richard E. West and Daniel L. Randall
4. Competency-Based Education and the Relationship to Digital Badges
Rhonda D. Blackburn, Stella C.S. Porto, and Jacklyn J. Thompson
5. Good Badges, Evil Badges? The Impact of Badge Design on Learning from Games
Melissa L. Biles and Jan L. Plass
6. The Impact of Badges on Motivation to Learn
Samuel Abramovich and Peter S. Wardrip
7. What Video Games Can Teach Us About Badges and Pathways
Lucas Blair
8. Instructional Design Considerations for Digital Badges
Chris Gamrat, Brett Bixler and Victoria Raish
9. Badging as Micro-Credentialing in Formal Education and Informal Education
Kyle Peck, Kyle Bowen, Emily Rimland and Jamie Oberdick
10. Digital Badges, Learning at Scale, and Big Data
Barton K. Pursel, Chris Stubbs, Gi Woong Choi, and Phil Tietjen
11. In the Eye of the Beholder: The Value of Digital Badges
Zane L. Berge and Lin Y. Muilenburg
Part II: Cases
Digital Badges for K12 Learners
12. College and Career Ready: TK-12 Badging for Student Motivation
April Marie Moore and Leanne Edwards
13. Learning with Digital Badges in Formal, Informal, and Crowd-Sourced Settings
Christine Chow, James E. Willis, III, and Daniel Hickey
14. Afterschool and Digital Badges: Recognizing Learning Where it Happens
Sam Piha
15. Designing Digital Badges for an Informal STEM Learning Environment
Eve Klein and Katie Davis
Digital Badges in Higher Education
16. Measuring Nursing Students' Mastery of Health Care Competencies
Andrea L. Thomas, Jason D. Fish, Pamela M. Karagory, and Kristen F. Kirby
17. Lifelong Learning Starts at School: Competency-based Badge Systems within the Transdisciplinary Experience at Purdue Polytechnic
Iryna Ashby, Marisa Exter, Sorin Adam Matei and Jeffrey Evans
18. Evaluating Design Frameworks for Badges: A Case Study and Comparative Analysis of Two Types of Digital Badging Systems
Rudy McDaniel and Joseph R. Fanfarelli
19. A Case Study of Digital Badges in Composition Courses
Alan J. Reid and Denise Paster
20. A Delayed Badge is a Worthy Badge: Designing Digital Badge Architectures Based on Academic Delay of Gratification
Răzvan Rughiniș and Ștefania Matei
Digital Badges for Adult Learning
21. Teacher Learning Journeys: A Design Case Study of a Learner-Centered STEM Digital Badging System
Chris Gamrat and Heather Toomey Zimmerman
22. VIF International Education: Global-Ready Teacher Badging
Julie Keane, Mark Otter, Tamara Oxley and Leslie Lipscomb
23. Digital Badges as a Motivator in MOOCS: The Carpe Diem MOOC Experience
Kulari Lokuge Dona, Janet Gregory and Ekaterina Pechenkina
24. Learning Technologies Badges for Faculty Professional Development: A Case Study
David A. Goodrum, Serdar Abaci, and Anastasia S. Morrone
25. Digital Badges for Continuing Education at Colorado State University
Michael Paul Macklin
About the Authors
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