Group items tagged

By Jeffrey R. Young in College 2.0 of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan 8 2012. This article looks at the use of badges to mark accomplishments and progress in online courses.

This article was mentioned in the Jam with special notice of the profile of one of OpenStudy's Level 40 Heros.

By Preetha Ram on Innovating Education blog, September 15 2011. In this post, Ram posits the badge as a means of promoting retention in online courses, particularly free and open courses.

Ran participated in the NGLC Jam.

By Preetha Ram on the Innovating Education blog, Jan 25 2012. Ram looks at social capital in terms of persistence in education, but also considers social capital in terms of (education) badges.

Ram was a Jam participant and shared this post, along with one on badges for retention.

As per the Reader Notes (at the top of the document), this is a project funded by the Hewlett Foundation to Peer to Peer University. This white paper draft is available, for comment, in Google Docs. David Gibson is one author.

David Gibson, a Jam participant, provided a link to this draft with this comment: "a white paper I co-authored with others under a grant from foundations driving the new efforts in badging. We're seeking public input and feedback on the paper."

Definition taken from Wikipedia.org. Bayesian network is a method of looking at probability.

Jammer David Gibson explained that his massive online game uses a Bayesian network to understand where each user has gone in the game and how each user has played. The network will help to establish badges.