by Dan Hickey and Tara Kelley
This extended post details how open digital badges
were incorporated into the Education Assessment Big Open Online Course. In summary there were four types of badges:
- Assessment Expertise badges for completing peer-endorsed wikifolios and an
exam in each of the sections of the course (Practices,
Principles, and Policies)
- Assessment Expert badge for earning the three expertise badges and succeeding on the
final exam
- Leader versions
of the Expertise and Expert badges for getting the most peer-promotions in the
networking group
- A Customized Assessment Expert badge for completing
a term paper by assembling all of the insights gained across the 11 wikifolios
assignments into a coherent professional paper.
This badge allows earners to indicate the state, domain, or context in
which they have will have developed local expertise about assessment.
Along the way, this post explores (a) how open badges are different
than grades and other static (i.e., non-networked, evidence-free) credentials, (b)
how we incorporated evidence of learning directly into the badges, and (c) the
role of badges in making claims about general, specific, and local expertise.
Previous posts describe the BOOC,
the peer promotion and endorsement features,
the role of the textbook, and how one
student experienced the course and the badges.
Future posts will describe the code and interface used to issue them in
Course Builder, the entire corpus of badges issued, how earners shared them,
and what we learned by analyzing the evidence they contained, and the design
principles for recognizing, assessing, motivating, and studying learning that
the BOOC badges illustrate.
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