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E-Badges 101 Using e-badges to encourage faculty & staff development in the MCC Leadership Institute Community Presented by Professor Sandra Rimetz MCC Leadership Institute Advisory Board February 13, 2012
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Presented to the Leadership Advisory board to consider badges for attendees of workshops.
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E-Badges 101Using e-badges to encourage faculty & staff development in the
MCC Leadership Institute Community
Presented by Professor Sandra Rimetz MCC Leadership Institute Advisory Board
February 13, 2012
What is a badge?
• An emblem given as an award, honor or recognition.
• Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts to honor accomplishments• Military to display rank• Classrooms (stickers) to reward completed tasks
• Confirms an achievement, quality, interest or skill.
Today’s Reward SystemTraditionally, our educational accomplishments are rewarded through:– Degree attainment (A.A. of
Arts)– Certificates (Web
Technology)– Continuing Ed Credits (C.E.U.)– Plaques (20 years of service)
Tomorrow’s Reward System
• A system of recognition for those who learn beyond the traditional paradigm (degrees, certificates awarded).
• Acknowledgement of knowledge or expertise in a specific area.
• Technology enables us to easily capture a learning pathway that may not have been so obvious.
Just imagine…
Faculty and staff joining workshops
with the excitement of becoming proficient
Promoting lifelong, non-traditional
learning
Supporting participation in interest-driven
programs
Why Use the Badges Model for the MCC Leadership Institute?
Encourages participants to follow each other. Validates a track or path of knowledge/expertise. Helps track topics that a user frequents for further
development (measures interest). Identifies knowledgeable users/experts’. Encourages relationships. Inspires participants to pursue the next level. Fosters mentorship and community. Encourages persistence. Provides an alternate path of education/learning (rather than
traditional coursework).
“That's the vision outlined in the National Educational Technology Plan we at the Department of Education released last year. Our plan, "Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology", aims to reframe learning as a process that is not only lifelong, but life-wide.”
Digital Badges for Learning Remarks by Secretary Duncan at 4th Annual Launch of the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Lifelong Learning CompetitionSeptember 15, 2011
http://www.ed.gov/news/speeches/digital-badges-learning
Aligns with the “big” Education Plan
How the Participants BenefitFeeling of
accomplishment
Renewed sense of community
Rewarded for time investment
Identifies their expertise to
others
Development of leadership for
future workshop leaders
Proposed Badge Type“Collectible Achievements”
Defined as:
Rewards that can be collected and displayed for others in the
community to see.
“Collectible Achievements” Assetsfor Participants
Encourages exploration in areas they may not be comfortable with (discovery).
Broadens the community member’s view of what is available in a particular area.
Non-competitive.
Can track their individual growth.
Implementation
Develop a series of badges related to current workshop themes (i.e. supervision).
Professional
Personal Organization
• Build an ecosystem so people can display e-badges in their e-mail signatures, add them to resumes.
• Eventually create interactive badge so information can be accessed at a click.
• Oversee verification (authenticity).• Start small think big
Implementation
BADGES IN ACTION ON THE WEBMore about this concept…
Yahoo! Fantasy Sports awards collectible trophies for various sports. They are temporal in nature, and are awarded for a specific season of play. A "Trophy Case" on the players profile keeps the achievements on display.
http://designingsocialinterfaces.com/patterns/Reputation
http://www.dmlcompetition.net/media/4/BadgesforLifelongLearning_Info.pdf
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lydia-dobyns/digital-badges-the-great-_b_1022751.html
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/digital-badges-student-awards-anne-obrien
http://opensource.com/points-and-badges
Additional Resources
YOUR THOUGHTS?And now…
