3 Reasons not to gamify education - 0 views
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Ian Guest on 18 Sep 11Blog post presenting some issues to consider should we wish to attempt to gamify education through awarding badges. (From LearnBoost)
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Show Me Your Badge - 0 views
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"... digital badges are actually portals that lead to large amounts of information about what their bearers know and can do. They are also being used to improve education itself, by borrowing techniques from video games that keep users playing, until they advance to the next level." - NYTimes.com
How Mozilla's Newest Project Could Improve Continuing Education - 0 views
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Blog post by Matt Russell
Good Magazine: Badges will unlock higher-education alternatives « o p e n m a... - 3 views
Grades Out, Badges In - College, Reinvented - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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"Erin Knight, leader of an education-badge project run by the Mozilla Foundation that provides a platform for students to display such badges on their Web sites, argues that grades shift students' goals from learning to earning, because the stakes are so high when the result of an entire course is reduced to a single letter."
Education Week: 'Digital Badges' Would Represent Students' Skill Acquisition - 0 views
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"Advocates of this vision for K-12 contend that such badges could help bridge educational experiences that happen in and out of school, as well as provide a way to recognize "soft skills" such as leadership and collaboration. Badges could paint a more granular and meaningful picture of what a student actually knows than a standardized-test score or a letter grade, they say."
Do-It-Yourself Badges - 0 views
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"How can an educator, librarian, or maker create a do-it-yourself badge system? What resources are out there for people who want to build a small-scale badge system?"
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"How can an educator, librarian, or maker create a do-it-yourself badge system? What resources are out there for people who want to build a small-scale badge system?"
The Teacher's Guide To Badges In Education - 0 views
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Thorough article summarising the main issues teachers need to be aware of
Badges Go To Graduate School | iterating toward openness - 0 views
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"I've just started awarding the first badges from my graduate seminar, IPT 692R: Introduction to Open Education."
A Future Full of Badges - 0 views
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Commentary piece by Kevin Carey in The Chronicle of Higher Education. As is often the case, the comments are equally worth reading!
An exciting week for Open Badges - 0 views
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"Earlier this week, IMS Global announced "an initiative to establish Digital Badges as common currency for K-20 and corporate education." By 'digital badges', the post makes clear, they mean Open Badges."
Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning - Educational Research - 0 views
Open Badge Experiences - 0 views
Anyone working on Open Badges for their projects let us know. We're currently assessing OBs for use with our educational programmes. Would welcome chance to discuss with others...
INSIGNIA | Another OLT project - 0 views
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Insignia is a project dedicated to exploring open badging in research education. This blog contains research notes and ponderings on the key questions underlying this work:
7 Things You Should Know About Badges | EDUCAUSE.edu - 0 views
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From the EDUCAUSE 7 Things ... series - "a different approach to credentials, one that places the focus on individual students and their learning accomplishments."
Could Badges Ever Replace Diplomas? - 0 views
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"Will digital badges ever really be accepted as proof of mastering a subject?"
Out With the Degree, In With the Badge - 0 views
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Article discussing Badges, their background, examples of use and how you might introduce them in your setting.