Badges = Engagement + Data Exploring the Potential of Badging Kelvin Thompson, Ed.D University of Central Florida This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial - ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License #FDLAconf13 #badgify @kthompso
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Badges = Engagement + DataExploring the Potential of Badging
Kelvin Thompson, Ed.DUniversity of Central Florida
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
“visual representations of 21st century skills and achievements”- Open Badges Initiative of the Mozilla Foundationhttps://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/About
“a validated indicator of accomplishment, skill, quality or interest that can be earned in [diverse] learning environments”- Macarthur Foundation on behalf of Digital Media + Learning Digital Badges for Life Competitionhttp://www.macfound.org/media/files/BadgesforLifelongLearning_Info.pdf
The first is the amount of time and effort students put into their studies and other educationally purposeful activities. The second is how the institution deploys its resources and organizes the curriculum and other learning opportunities to get students to participate in activities that decades of research studies show are linked to student learning.