badges: the "new black" or another "black "hole"

Badges for Learning: The “New Black” or Another “Black Hole”

Anne Derryberry, Sage Road SoluBons

SLN SOLsummit 2013

IntroducBon

Anne Derryberry, Sage Road SoluBons LLC March 2013

QuesBons????

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QuesBon #1

•  What is gamificaBon?

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What is GamificaBon?

•  A dirty word •  Points •  Leaderboards •  Badges •  Game stuff –  Contests

•  Check-‐ins •  VoBng •  Social, bring your friends


QuesBon(s) #2

•  What badges have you earned? •  What badges have you collected?



A Badge (r)EvoluBon


Sample Postsecondary IniBaBves


QuesBon(s) #3

•  Who is taking OER 101? •  (extra credit – What badges have you earned in OER 101?)

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Forces of (r)EvoluBon

Higher Ed

“Engagement, RetenBon, CompleBon”

“Off-‐transcript” learning

Competency-‐based learning

Alternate credenBaling

EducaBon ß à Workplace crosswalks


Jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs

Can digital badges for learning help?


What Are Badges for Learning? •  Digital symbols to

communicate one’s abributes

•  Independent, 3rd-‐party acknowledgement and validaBon

•  More than (but not replacement for) grades

•  Portable •  (Can be) visible to all, at

the badgeholder’s discreBon


QuesBon(s) #4

•  How are you using digital badges with your learning programs?

•  What things do you use badges to signify?



Badges Can Signify Many Kinds of Abributes

•  Accomplishment •  Achievement •  Competencies •  Merits •  Rank •  Interests •  Belonging, membership •  ContribuBon •  ReputaBon •  Status


Badge = image + METADATA

–  Content –  Competencies/Skills –  Assessment –  Discrete or dynamic –  Scarcity and granularity –  QualificaBons

–  Role and idenBty –  Level –  OpportuniBes and privileges

–  Permanence or expiraBon

–  Issuer and/or endorser

Through metadata, badge issuers define for stakeholders the abributes that the holder of a badge has acquired.


No badge is an island

Typically, badges don’t exist alone, but as a set or collecBon,

called a Badge System.


From Badge to Badge Cluster


From Badge Cluster to Badge System


QuesBon #5

•  Do you organize your course content and assessments in a format that comports with “badge thinking”?



About Badge Systems Badge Systems DO include: •  Badges •  Corresponding assignments

–  Missions –  Quests –  Challenges

•  Data and records •  Logs •  Social media

–  Profiles –  Friends –  Mail and messaging –  RaBngs and reputaBon

Badge Systems DON’T include: Learning content. That’s because challenges, missions and quests are pointers to acBviBes that enable targeted learning to occur within the learning experience.


Badge Plaporms provide necessary infrastructure

Badgeforge.com

Badg.us


How does a badge plaporm know to issue a badge?

The “issuing” of a badge is a[n automated] transacBon. Badge plaporms award badges when the plaporm soqware receives an instrucBon to make the award. Such an instrucBon is triggered when a learner provides verified evidence of the required performance.


QuesBon #6

How could your course be (re-‐)structured so that on-‐going assessment could be done in an evidenBary manner?



Project Intent Purpose •  To give WCET members and staff a fun, informal, light-‐hearted experience

of badges and games •  To provide a behind-‐the-‐scenes look at what designing and implemenBng

a badge system for learning entails. ObjecBves •  Expose players to many WCET programs and engage players in various

acBviBes and projects of the CooperaBve •  Underscore the values that the CooperaBve represents •  Have fun with member contribuBons, recogniBon and appreciaBon

Design Challenges •  Members are in the learning business and will apply what they’ve learned in a

learning se=ng •  WCET is not in the learning business, but serves and supports those who are


Design Framework for “Who’s Got Class?”

•  Purpose, Goals, Values •  Align acBviBes with desired outcomes •  Match compleBon of acBviBes, evidence of performance and system triggers

•  Weight acBviBes and balance points to reinforce key messages


< = > (Less is more)

Evidence and Assessment

•  Does evidence required really prove what’s being assessed?

•  Are the triggers appropriate to the objecBves? •  Do they support learning transfer?


26 Missions and Badges


Lots of help along the way


“Who’s Got Class?” Three Ways to Win!!

+ + + + = Connect Learn Advance Serve Support CLASS Act


By the numbers

IniAal interest •  518 invitaBons requested •  461 unique visitors •  1,421 visits

Joiners •  204 registered players •  146 teams

–  13 non-‐academic insBtuBons

•  16,270 page views •  Average visit – 10:04


34 Forum discussions, 272 comments


Important Issues for ParBcipants

•  CompeBBon and learning •  MoBvaBon and cheaBng in GBL and badge systems

•  Maintaining learner engagement •  Badges and LMSs •  Evidence-‐based learning and assessment •  Faculty development


So what do you think…?


Forces of (r)EvoluBon

Higher Ed

“Engagement, RetenBon, CompleBon”

“Off-‐transcript” learning

Competency-‐based learning

Alternate credenBaling

EducaBon ß à Workplace crosswalks


Thinking about applicaBons on the: •  Course level •  Program level •  InsBtuBonal level •  (Inter)naBonal level


QuesBon(s) #7

•  Are badges the “new black” or another “black hole”?

•  Why?



And the Twiber says…


Anne Derryberry Sage Road SoluBons, LLC SageroadsoluBons.com [email protected] @aderryberry Linkedin.com/aderryberry Slideshare.net/a_derryberry

Thank you!

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