By Dan Hickey
I am crunching out the final report of the Open Badges Design Principles Document Program and it pushed me to dig more deeply into the research on "knowledge evaporation" in the design of complex software architectures. It makes me wonder if current efforts to build badges into the larger, more complex learning management systems are about to run into the wall that complex software systems always run into.
Monday, November 3, 2014
Monday, October 27, 2014
Fostering a Self-Sustaining Professional Learning Community in Online Professional Development
by Rebecca C. Itow
Since 2011, I have been studying
ways to help teachers adopt and adapt new practices that value learners’
experience and expertise as they explore new concepts. Often, this necessitates
that teachers find ways to reconcile their experience and existing beliefs
about knowledge & learning with the underlying assumptions of the new
practices so that they can be worked into curricular designs. In Spring 2013,
an opportunity arose to redesign the English Language Arts (ELA) courses of a
university-run online high school. While the high school was ranked
the #2 online high school in the United States, they wanted to update their
pedagogy both to attend to the push to foster connected learning in participatory
spaces and address accreditors’ concerns about their use of a correspondence
model. Dan Hickey suggested I take on this task, enabling me to aid the school
in redesigning their courses and to realize the potential of the research I had
been doing for the last two years.
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Open Digital Badges: Recognizing, Assessing, and Motivating Learning in the DPD Project
As the Design Principles Documentation team analyzes the project data from 30 digital badge projects awarded funding in the 2012 DML 4: Badges for Lifelong Learning Completition, certain principles and practices emerge as being successful or overly challenging. This post highlights the three most successful and challenging principles and practices in recognition, assessment, and motivation.
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Open Badges Laboratory: Collaboration with Vitrine Technologie Education
by James Willis and Dan Hickey
We are pleased to announce that we were invited to lead an online Open Badges Laboratory with Charles Tsai, the Director for Learning Networks for Ashoka Canada, and Don Presant, the President of Learning Agents. This collaboration is hosted by Vitrine Technologie Education (VTE) based in Quebec, Canada. The first lab will kick-off on Thursday, October 23rd; the registration form is here. Registration in the lab is free of charge.
We are pleased to announce that we were invited to lead an online Open Badges Laboratory with Charles Tsai, the Director for Learning Networks for Ashoka Canada, and Don Presant, the President of Learning Agents. This collaboration is hosted by Vitrine Technologie Education (VTE) based in Quebec, Canada. The first lab will kick-off on Thursday, October 23rd; the registration form is here. Registration in the lab is free of charge.
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