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Using Moodle Badges to Track Course Completion

Martin LaGrow

Senior Academic Consultant

June 2014

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What is a Badge?

A badge is an electronically awarded symbol of accomplishment.

Example: A student completes Algebra, Geometry, and Trigonometry and is awarded the “Mathematician Badge.”

Example2: A student participates in five optional live chats in a course and is awarded the “Communicator” Badge.


What are the elements of a badge?

A badge includes the following: A Name A description An image (can be custom or downloaded from many open

source badge sites) The issuer Name (set by LMS) The issuer Email (set by LMS) The Badge expiry (optional) A set of criteria defining how it is issued A message to the user that is sent once it is earned

(optional)


How are badges issued in Moodle?

Site Badges can be awarded… Automatically for completion of selected elements of your

user profile. Example: A student is awarded the “Chatter” badge for adding a Skype ID to their profile.

Automatically for completing a set of courses. Example: A student is awarded the “Mathematician” badge for completing four higher level Math courses.

Manually by role for the same criteria as above. Example: All teachers are given the right to manually issue a badge for attending live sessions in a course.


How are badges issued in Moodle?

Course Badges can be awarded… Upon the completion of a course (must be enabled in course

settings). Upon the completion of an activity. Example: Teacher

awards the “Plagiarism expert” badge for completion of a quiz on plagiarism. Note: can be ‘all’ or ‘any’ of selected activities

Manually by role. Example: A Teacher or Teaching Assistant uses this to create a “Socratic Method” badge for students who ask thoughtful questions in a discussion forum. Note: can be ‘all’ or ‘any’ of the selected roles


Where are badges displayed?

Badges are visible on a student’s profile.



Clicking on the badge provides related information.



Issuers can track who has received badges. Clicking on the number of recipients yields a list.



A student’s Moodle badges can be linked to a backpack at http://backpack.openbadges.org.

http://backpack.openbadges.org/


What is a backpack?

At Openbadges.org, anyone can earn, issue, and display badges in their backpack. It links to many educational contexts, including museums, MOOC providers, LMS’s, and schools. An Openbadge backpack is designed to provide validation for the completion of learning objectives in multiple contexts, something like a portfolio.


Application of Badges in Higher Education

Incentivized Programs (Gamification)

REWARD STATUS ACHIEVE-MENT

SELF-EXPRESSION

COMPETITION

Points

Levels

Challenge

Virtual goods

Leaderboards

Growth Engineering (Academy LMS)http://www.growthengineering.co.uk/the-psychology-of-badges-and-motivation/



Recognition (Internal) Professional Development Purdue Passport

“Learning management mixed with gaming mixed with e-portfolio”

Badges connected with course objectives



Alternative Credentials (external) CompTIA—Recognized leader in IT certifications

Why do their certifications have value? Industry interaction and recognition

Microsoft—Certifies in their own software Why do their certifications have value? Knowledge of product

Your Institution—Certifies students with badges Why do your certifications have value?



Madison Area Technical College Noncredit in workforce development Awarded for program completion Meeting employer needs

Inform/educate/market to employers Creating specialized badges

Patterned after certifications

Taken from http://www.slideshare.net/KateRadionoff/digital-badges-in-non

http://www.slideshare.net/KateRadionoff/digital-badges-in-non





Kathleen Radionoff, Dean of Continuing Education, Madison Area Technical College “…Using badges to increase academic rigor of non-

credit, not just seat time.” “…Badges are tied to learning outcomes based on

employer and industry standards.” “…Local employers are all over badges—we work

cooperatively to cobrand them with the business.”


Badges in Action: CS2N

CS2N (http://www.cs2n.org/teachers/badges) uses a badge-based system to motivate students, help them to define pathways and set goals, and indicate that they have mastered concepts.

Badges are a core component of CS2N that seek to solve two key problems: How do you capture a record of students’ learning in a form

that is recognized and valuable everywhere? How do you encourage students to continue beyond the

initial stages of engagement into long-term and lifelong learning?


Badges in Action: CS2N

Badges should be MAGIC:

Motivation

Assessment

Guidance

Identification

Certification/Credentialing

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Badges? BADGES? Do we need stinking BADGES?


Yes, we need badges!

Badges are considered useful for these main purposes: To set up an incentivized program within a course, providing

motivation to participate (gamification), To recognize completion of a set of standards, To provide alternative credentials and recognize

independent and informal learning. Badges allow students to “differentiate themselves and tell a narrative (Normoyle, quoted in Inside Higher Education).”

A method of assessment other than “multiple-choice form of testing [that] doesn’t measure all that is being learned and de-motivates true curiosity (Davidson, 2012).”


Yes, we need badges!

Digital badges are getting a serious look on many university campuses because they may allow students to demonstrate a greater variety of skills. "A diploma says as much about the institution you attended as it does about you," notes Bill Wisser, instructional designer in the Graduate School of Education (HGSE) at Harvard University (MA). "A portfolio gets more granular, and badges can show individual records of accomplishment (Raths, quoted in Campus Technology)."

What says more

about the learner?


We don’t need no stinking badges!

Badges (in gamification) focus on extrinsic instead of intrinsic motivation. “Students will focus on accumulating badges rather than making connections with the ideas and material associated with the badges – the same way that students too often focus on grades…or the points in an educational game rather than the ideas in a game (Resnick, 2012).

Anyone can award badges based on any criteria. What value does a badge from your institution hold in an external context?

“Informal learning works because it is informal. Yet, any coherent system of badges requires systems and structure…too quick a move towards badges runs the risk of destroying the complex but fragile ecosystem within which participatory learning thrives (Jenkins).”


Readiness questions:

Will the focus of your badges program be: Internal—motivation Internal—recognition External—validation

How will your badges program be introduced? Will it be a centralized effort or pockets of innovation?

How does the introduction of the badge transform discourse? Will it encourage students to engage more deeply?

How will you maintain the integrity of your ‘brand?’

How will you promote and regulate the issuing of badges?


The Mechanics of Badges

Outcomes

Learning Objectives

Learning Activities

Assessment



Outcome

Learning Objectives

Learning Activities

Assessment 1a

Assessment 1b

Assessment 1c



You can’t tie activity completion to a minimum grade!



Assignment 1b

Assignment 1a

Summary Discussion

Forum

Restrict access to discussion forum based on performance in assignments

Activity Completion



Access Restrictions to a Summative Discussion Forum


Relevant Resources

“Badging Alliance” http://wiki.badgealliance.org/index.php/Higher_Education_Working_Group#Examples_of_Badges_in_Higher_Education

“Badging from Within” – dead link (?) http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/01/03/uc-daviss-groundbreaking-digital-badge-system-new-sustainable-agriculture-program

CS2N http://www.cs2n.org/teachers/badges “Can Badging be the Zipcar of Testing and Assessment?”

http://dmlcentral.net/blog/cathy-davidson/can-badging-be-zipcar-testing-and-assessment

http://wiki.badgealliance.org/index.php/Higher_Education_Working_Group#Examples_of_Badges_in_Higher_Education



http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/01/03/uc-daviss-groundbreaking-digital-badge-system-new-sustainable-agriculture-program





http://www.cs2n.org/teachers/badges

http://www.cs2n.org/teachers/badges






Relevant Resources

Growth Engineering, “The Psychology of Badges and Motivation” http://www.growthengineering.co.uk/the-psychology-of-badges-and-motivation/

“How Badges Really Work in Higher Education” http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2013/06/20/How-Badges-Really-Work-in-Higher-Education.aspx

“How to Earn Your Skeptic Badge” http://henryjenkins.org/2012/03/how_to_earn_your_skeptic_badge.html

“Digital Badges for Workforce Development: A Case Study at Madison College” http://www.slideshare.net/KateRadionoff/digital-badges-in-non

http://www.growthengineering.co.uk/the-psychology-of-badges-and-motivation/



http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2013/06/20/How-Badges-Really-Work-in-Higher-Education.aspx

http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2013/06/20/How-Badges-Really-Work-in-Higher-Education.aspx

http://henryjenkins.org/2012/03/how_to_earn_your_skeptic_badge.html






Relevant Resources

“Still a Badge Skeptic” http://hastac.org/blogs/mres/2012/02/27/still-badge-skeptic

“Rethinking Digital Badges” http://thebluereview.org/rethinking-digital-badges/

“Seven Things You Should Know About Badges” http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eli7085.pdf

http://hastac.org/blogs/mres/2012/02/27/still-badge-skeptic

http://hastac.org/blogs/mres/2012/02/27/still-badge-skeptic

http://thebluereview.org/rethinking-digital-badges/

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eli7085.pdf

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eli7085.pdf

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