Digital Badges in Education

Digital badges provide new affordances for online educational activities and experiences. When used with points and leaderboards, a badge can become a gamification element allowing learners to compete with themselves or others, and to know how close they are to accomplishing a goal and acquiring its...

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Main Authors: Gibson, David, Ostashewski, Nathaniel, Flintoff, Kim, Grant, Sheryl, Knight, Erin
Format: Journal Article
Published: Springer 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40969
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author Gibson, David
Ostashewski, Nathaniel
Flintoff, Kim
Grant, Sheryl
Knight, Erin
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Flintoff, Kim
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description Digital badges provide new affordances for online educational activities and experiences. When used with points and leaderboards, a badge can become a gamification element allowing learners to compete with themselves or others, and to know how close they are to accomplishing a goal and acquiring its accompanying reputation. In this role, badges motivate continued engagement, which increases time on task and supports skill acquisition through performance. Learning outcomes signified by badges can also be displayed in an e-portfolio or on web sites and are highly transportable to social media sites. In this role they summarize achievement and signal accomplishment. With these characteristics, digital badges have the potential to become an alternative credentialing system, providing visible recognition in digital symbols that link directly via metadata to validating evidence of educational achievements in public displays. This paper will trace the brief history of digital badges, define what they are, give examples of their use, and discuss their educational affordances.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-409692019-02-19T05:35:11Z Digital Badges in Education Gibson, David Ostashewski, Nathaniel Flintoff, Kim Grant, Sheryl Knight, Erin Assessment of learning Gamification Certification systems Digital badges Digital badges provide new affordances for online educational activities and experiences. When used with points and leaderboards, a badge can become a gamification element allowing learners to compete with themselves or others, and to know how close they are to accomplishing a goal and acquiring its accompanying reputation. In this role, badges motivate continued engagement, which increases time on task and supports skill acquisition through performance. Learning outcomes signified by badges can also be displayed in an e-portfolio or on web sites and are highly transportable to social media sites. In this role they summarize achievement and signal accomplishment. With these characteristics, digital badges have the potential to become an alternative credentialing system, providing visible recognition in digital symbols that link directly via metadata to validating evidence of educational achievements in public displays. This paper will trace the brief history of digital badges, define what they are, give examples of their use, and discuss their educational affordances. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40969 10.1007/s10639-013-9291-7 Springer fulltext
spellingShingle Assessment of learning
Gamification
Certification systems
Digital badges
Gibson, David
Ostashewski, Nathaniel
Flintoff, Kim
Grant, Sheryl
Knight, Erin
Digital Badges in Education
title Digital Badges in Education
title_full Digital Badges in Education
title_fullStr Digital Badges in Education
title_full_unstemmed Digital Badges in Education
title_short Digital Badges in Education
title_sort digital badges in education
topic Assessment of learning
Gamification
Certification systems
Digital badges
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40969