Full Description
Digital Badges are gaining traction in the education landscape, and librarians have been some of the leading pioneers at the forefront of this exciting new frontier. This book provides examples of how badges are being used to enhance and invigorate the teaching and assessment of information literacy. Chapters provide inspiration for teaching librarians interested in:
·Providing an engaging experience for their students
·Gaining insight into this growing innovative technology trend
·Discovering how librarians are using badges to enhance their teaching
·Forming meaningful collaborations with faculty and teachers
·Developing knowledge about badge system design and badging platforms
·Learning how badges can motivate, support, and celebrate learning achievements
·Launching a badging project
The book is divided into two sections. The first section explores the environment in which badges are being developed, in particular situating them within the current educational setting, and provides guidelines on how best to create a badging program. The second section details contributing authors' firsthand experiences creating, implementing, and refining digital badges and digital badging systems, in some cases collaborating with teachers and faculty. These chapters provide a wealth of ideas about using digital badges in academic and school libraries to engage and motivate students.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: The Badging Environment
Chapter 1: Overview of Micro-Credentialing
Cinthya Ippoliti
Chapter 2: Forces of Change for Higher Education: Opening Gates for Digital Badging
Trudi E. Jacobson
Chapter 3: Addressing Stakeholder Needs to Establish Meaningful Digital Badging in Higher Education
Laureen P. Cantwell and Kristyn K. Rose
Chapter 4: Digital Badges in Schools
Amanda Rose Fuller
Chapter 5: Badges Can Do That: Ideas for Using Badges to Enhance Information Literacy Instruction
Allison Hosier
Chapter 6: Badging Best Practices
Kelsey L. O'Brien
Part II: Badging and Information Literacy: Case Studies
Chapter 7: Pollak Library Spark Tutorials
J. Lindsay O'Neill
Chapter 8: Competency-Based Education, Badging, and the Library
Michael Fosmire and Amy S. Van Epps
Chapter 9: Hot Neoliberal Commodities or Tools for Empowerment? A Badges Case Study and Conversation
Emily Ford, Jost Lottes, Betty Izumi, and Dawn Richardson
Chapter 10: Badging and Workplace Information Literacy: Helping Students Prepare for the Professional World
Megan Blauvelt Heuer
Chapter 11: Failing Better: Scaffolding Learning with the Metaliteracy Badging System
Kelsey L. O'Brien
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
