Kay Scouter, Deakin University: Digital Badges
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Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B DIGITAL BADGES IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF ASSESSMENT
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Associate Professor Kay Souter, Director, Learning Environments, Research and Evaluation, Deakin University delivered this presentation at the 2014 Future of Learning conference. This two-day national forum focuses on new approaches, technologies, environments and best practices in post-secondary education. For more information about the annual event, please visit the conference website: http://www.informa.com.au/futurelearningconference
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Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B
DIGITAL BADGES IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF
ASSESSMENT
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Rewriting the future as interactive, connected, personalised
Spatial experience
• Engagement pedagogy
• Whole campus as a
learning space
• Reconfigurable spaces
• Dialogue, comfort,
engagement in virtual and
physical spaces
• Flipping; Active Learning;
Naked Teaching
Assessment
• Assessment for engagement
• All of assessment for
learning
• Reconfigurable assessment
• Dialogue, comfort,
engagement in assessment
• Active assessment
Why badge ?
• ‘Unbundling’
• Rich evidence of learning: unpacking the giant badge
• Gamification of learning
• Speaking to the world
portals
testamurs
The Death of Grades– or Two Rivers in the same Bed?
It’s less Talking at students
Talking to the institution
Transmissive content sharing
Testing knowledge outcomes
Tallying marks to judge student success
It’s more
Facilitated digital learning
Talking to the world
Mentoring for outcomes and standards
Industry-integrated learning
Macro and micro accrediting of learning
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“when you look at this transition from brick
and mortar classes to online space, we
should not strip away the experiential or
social aspects of learning, but we should
find a way to use a way to amplify them”.
Amin Saberi, Stanford 2012
• Peer credit?
• Institutional credit?
How might this work?
Peers warrant that learning evidence meets outcomes and standards
using digital badges
warrant
learning
Institutional badges:
Graduate Learning outcomes
1 Discipline knowledge
2 Communication
3 Digital literacy
4 Critical thinking
5 Problem solving
6 Self-management
7 Teamwork
8 Global citizenship
Mozilla Backpack
D2L Portfolio
...and how to organise?
A big pool of unsorted badges?
Amassing more and more: issue of motive
Domains?
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Gamification?
Within different domains?
Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B
Our graduates
will have
portfolios of
warranted
learning
evidence
openbadges.org
But in the end
http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/1094/open-
badges-portable-credentials-for-learning
THANK YOU!
