Digital Badges in Education

<p>In recent years, digital badging systems have become a credible means through which learners can establish portfolios and articulate knowledge and skills for both academic and professional settings. <i>Digital Badges in Education </i>provides the first comprehensive overview of this emerging tool. A digital badge is an online-based visual representation that uses detailed metadata to signify learners’ specific achievements and credentials in a variety of subjects across K-12 classrooms, higher education, and workplace learning. Focusing on learning design, assessment, and concrete cases in various contexts, this book explores the necessary components of badging systems, their functions and value, and the possible problems they face. These twenty-five chapters illustrate a range of successful applications of digital badges to address a broad spectrum of learning challenges and to help readers formulate solutions during the development of their digital badges learning projects.</p> <p><strong>Part I: Trends and Issues</strong></p><p>1. History and Context of Open Digital Badges</p><p>Sheryl L. Grant</p><p>2. Badges and Competencies: New Currency for Professional Credentials</p><p>Anne Derryberry, Deborah Everhart, and Erin Knight</p><p>3. The Case for Rigor in Open Badges</p><p>Richard E. West and Daniel L. Randall</p><p>4. Competency-Based Education and the Relationship to Digital Badges </p><p>Rhonda D. Blackburn, Stella C.S. Porto, and Jacklyn J. Thompson</p><p>5. Good Badges, Evil Badges? The Impact of Badge Design on Learning from Games</p><p>Melissa L. Biles and Jan L. Plass</p><p>6. The Impact of Badges on Motivation to Learn</p><p>Samuel Abramovich and Peter S. Wardrip</p><p>7. What Video Games Can Teach Us About Badges and Pathways</p><p>Lucas Blair</p><p>8. Instructional Design Considerations for Digital Badges</p><p>Chris Gamrat, Brett Bixler and Victoria Raish</p><p>9. Badging as Micro-Credentialing in Formal Education and Informal Education</p><p>Kyle Peck, Kyle Bowen, Emily Rimland and Jamie Oberdick</p><p>10. Digital Badges, Learning at Scale, and Big Data</p><p>Barton K. Pursel, Chris Stubbs, Gi Woong Choi, and Phil Tietjen</p><p>11. In the Eye of the Beholder: The Value of Digital Badges</p><p>Zane L. Berge and Lin Y. Muilenburg</p><p>Part II: Cases</p><p>Digital Badges for K12 Learners</p><p>12. College and Career Ready: TK-12 Badging for Student Motivation</p><p>April Marie Moore and Leanne Edwards</p><p>13. Learning with Digital Badges in Formal, Informal, and Crowd-Sourced Settings</p><p>Christine Chow, James E. Willis, III, and Daniel Hickey</p><p>14. Afterschool and Digital Badges: Recognizing Learning Where it Happens</p><p>Sam Piha</p><p>15. Designing Digital Badges for an Informal STEM Learning Environment</p><p>Eve Klein and Katie Davis</p><p>Digital Badges in Higher Education</p><p>16. Measuring Nursing Students’ Mastery of Health Care Competencies</p><p>Andrea L. Thomas, Jason D. Fish, Pamela M. Karagory, and Kristen F. Kirby</p><p>17. Lifelong Learning Starts at School: Competency-based Badge Systems within the Transdisciplinary Experience at Purdue Polytechnic</p><p>Iryna Ashby, Marisa Exter, Sorin Adam Matei and Jeffrey Evans</p><p>18. Evaluating Design Frameworks for Badges: A Case Study and Comparative Analysis of Two Types of Digital Badging Systems</p><p>Rudy McDaniel and Joseph R. Fanfarelli</p><p>19. A Case Study of Digital Badges in Composition Courses</p><p>Alan J. Reid and Denise Paster</p><p>20. A Delayed Badge is a Worthy Badge: Designing Digital Badge Architectures Based on Academic Delay of Gratification</p><p>Răzvan Rughiniș and Ștefania Matei </p><p>Digital Badges for Adult Learning</p><p>21. Teacher Learning Journeys: A Design Case Study of a Learner-Centered STEM Digital Badging System</p><p>Chris Gamrat and Heather Toomey Zimmerman</p><p>22. VIF International Education: Global-Ready Teacher Badging</p><p>Julie Keane, Mark Otter, Tamara Oxley and Leslie Lipscomb</p><p>23. Digital Badges as a Motivator in MOOCS: The Carpe Diem MOOC Experience</p><p>Kulari Lokuge Dona, Janet Gregory and Ekaterina Pechenkina</p><p>24. Learning Technologies Badges for Faculty Professional Development: A Case Study</p><p>David A. Goodrum, Serdar Abaci, and Anastasia S. Morrone</p><p>25. Digital Badges for Continuing Education at Colorado State University</p><p>Michael Paul Macklin</p><p>About the Authors</p><p>Index</p>