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Badges represent a way of acknowledging achievements or skill acquisition more granular than a college degree. The resources below provide an overview of the uses of badges and their implications for how individual accomplishments can be awarded, recognized, and shared. This updated ELI 7 Things You Should Read About Badges (May 2013) provides additional key facts about Badges.
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EDUCAUSE Sprint: Beyond MOOCs: Is IT Creating a New, Connected Age?, July 30 – August 1, 2013
Articles, Papers, Portals and Reports
7 Things You Should Know About Badges, ELI 7 Things You Should Know, June 2012
Case Study 6: Mozilla Open Badges, A Case Study from Game Changers. Erin Knight, Carla Casilli. May 2012. Mozilla Open Badges is an initiative exploring alternative ways for learners to receive recognition for skills and achievements gained outside of the school environment, such as open credentialing and accreditation for all types of learning, including informal and interest driven.
Badges for Lifelong Learning, A curated Scoop it site by HASTAC.
Thinking about Accreditation in a Rapidly Changing World, Paul LeBlanc, EDUCAUSE Review Online, April 2013. Online learning has provided a platform for rethinking delivery models, yet much of accreditation is not designed to account for new approaches, including badges.
“Show Me Your Badge”, Kevin Carey, New York Times, November 2, 2012. The author describes ways in which badges are being used in higher education.
Digital Badges Engage Incoming Freshmen, Danielle Mirliss, June 2012. Seton Hall University dips their toes into the use of digital badges.
Presentations and Seminars
Engaging Students Through Digital Badges, ELI Annual Meeting, Mirless and Soupios, February 2013
Digital Badges as an Open Passport for Learning, ELI Webinar, Bowen, January 2013
Digital Badges and Meaningful Microcredentials, ELI Webinar, Finkelstein, October 2012
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Mozilla Open Badges, website, supported by MacArthur Foundation
MacArthur Foundation: Digital Badges
Purdue.edu: Passport and Passport Profile
Seton Hall: PiratePatch program
Library Items on this Topic
EDUCAUSE Library Items for Badges
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Badges
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Badges True Badges represent a way of acknowledging achie…
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How Badges Really Work in Higher Education
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June 20, 2013
Digital badge initiatives at colleges and universities across the country are challenging assumptions about learning and assessment. Digital badg…
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7 Things You Should Read About Badges
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May 29, 2013
Badges represent a way of acknowledging achievements or skill acquisition more granular than a college degree. The resources below provide an overview of the uses of badges and their im…
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Thinking about Accreditation in a Rapidly Changing World
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April 1, 2013
Online learning has provided a platform for rethinking delivery models, yet much of accreditation is not designed to account for these new approaches. Paul J. LeBlanc is Presiden…
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The Beginning of Something Big
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March 7, 2013
Thanks to MOOCs, online learning has gained worldwide attention from academic leaders, trustees, legislators, and the media. The power of technology enables massive scale and allows learning and …
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Interview and Interactive Q&A Session with Speakers Kyle Bowen, Purdue University; Amy McQuigge, Empire State College SUNY; and Danielle Mirliss and Michael Soupios, Seton Hall University
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February 4, 2013
Join us for an exclusive interview and take advantage of this unique opportunity to engage in dialogue with four speakers who will comment on and discuss their presentations from the face-to-face…
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Digital Badges as an Open Passport for Learning
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January 7, 2013
Join Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative director, and Veronica Diaz, ELI associate director, as they moderate this webinar with Kyle Bowen. As we continue to reshape the form and method …
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Leadership in Educational Entrepreneurship through Badges
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April 18, 2013
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A session at the Enterprise IT Leadership Conference 2013
A digital badge is a credential ideally suited for the electronic, networked world of 21st-century work. This session examines the badge process to identify opportunities, strategies (e.g., organ…
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Badges but Were Afraid to Ask
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February 6, 2013
Open badges: this concept can be explosive in an educational environment. During this session, Mozilla will lay bare the successes, challenges, and failures of the Open Badge Infrastructure (OBI)…
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If You Badge It, Will They Engage? Gamification Principles in Online Courses
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February 5, 2013
Motivation (and the associated engagement) in online classes is both the linchpin to success and arguably the most difficult element to inspire in students. The principles of gaming offer clues t…
