M11: Stimulate competition | Design Principles Documentation Project

Stimulate comptetition:

Scarcity, point systems, and leaderboards help create competition between learners, which can motivate some to try harder.

For specific examples of how badge systems have stimulated competetition, please see the following pages: scarcity of badges and point system.

Implementing a complex leveled hierarchy: S2R

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Nate Otto — No Comments ↓

S2R designed their medal system to allow students to progress through different levels of mastery in three different areas of journalism, targeting the roles of Journalist, Producer, and Coach. Moreover, they wanted to guide students through these badges along a…

Recognizing Principles	Assessing Principles	Motivating Principles	Studying Principles
R1: Use badges to map learning trajectory	A1: Use leveled badge systems	M11: Stimulate competition

LevelUp

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Nate Otto — No Comments ↓

The badging initiative LevelUp is the result of a partnership between Adams County District 50, EffectiveSC, and Intific. LevelUp is a web-based platform for students to map the progression of their learning experiences on their own, personal competency map, with the capacity to take effect across systems and institutions, including “K-12 schools, colleges, extra-curricular activities, or job training”

Recognizing Principles	Assessing Principles	Motivating Principles	Studying Principles
R1: Use badges to map learning trajectory R2: Align badges to standards R3: Have experts issue badges R9: Award formal academic credit for badges	A2: Enhance validity with expert judgment A3: Align assessments to standards A6: Use formative functions of assessment A10: Involve students at a granular level	M1: Provide incentives M3: Engage with the community M5: Build outside value for badges M7: Set goals M11: Stimulate competition

PBS News Hour Student Reporting Labs

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Nate Otto — No Comments ↓

Student Reporting Labs is a educational program offered by PBS News Hour in which participating high school teachers offer their students the opportunity to write and record a story about their community with the chance of getting it broadcast on local or national television.

Recognizing Principles	Assessing Principles	Motivating Principles	Studying Principles
R1: Use badges to map learning trajectory R2: Align badges to standards R3: Have experts issue badges R6: Use badges as external communication of learning R8: Recognize educator learning R10: Promote discovery	A1: Use leveled badge systems A2: Enhance validity with expert judgment A3: Align assessments to standards A5: Use e-portfolios A6: Use formative functions of assessment	M1: Provide incentives M2: Recognize identities M4: Display badges to the public M5: Build outside value for badges M7: Set goals M11: Stimulate competition	S2: Improve badge impact

Supporter To Reporter (S2R) Medals

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Nate Otto — No Comments ↓

Supporter to Reporter (S2R) provides learning opportunities for young people to take on the roles of sports journalists, media producers, and mentors. S2R Medals will recognize and reward the skills and achievements gained by young reporters who learn and demonstrate a rich array of competencies acquired through their participation in the program.

Supporter To Reporter, an existing program developed by DigitalMe in the UK, participated in the Digital Media & Learning competition focused on Badges for Lifelong Learning. S2R won a grant from the MacArthur Foundation to implement Mozilla OBI-compliant digital badges in support of its educational objectives, helping young people to learn skills required in sports journalism and apply them in their communities.

Recognizing Principles	Assessing Principles	Motivating Principles	Studying Principles
R1: Use badges to map learning trajectory R3: Have experts issue badges R4: Seek external backing R6: Use badges as external communication of learning R7: Determine appropriate lifespan of badges R8: Recognize educator learning R10: Promote discovery	A1: Use leveled badge systems A2: Enhance validity with expert judgment A3: Align assessments to standards A5: Use e-portfolios	M1: Provide incentives M2: Recognize identities M3: Engage with the community M5: Build outside value for badges M8: Use different types of assessment M11: Stimulate competition	S1: Study badge impact

Who Built America Badges for History Education

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Rebecca Itow — No Comments ↓

Who Built America Badges for History Education (WBA) is a project developed by the American Social History Project (ASHP) in partnership with Electric Funstuff and Education Development Center (EDC). The project moves the face-to-face synchronous professional development for grade 7-12 history teachers that the ASHP has been conducting for over 20 years to an online asynchronous space where teachers work at their own pace and without a cohort. This has been a somewhat challenging process, but the use of leveled digital badges and formative assessments have aided in the process. WBA master history teacher badgeThere is substantial effort to build community within WBA, and teachers can build relationships beyond a small cohort. This professional development helps teachers grow in both content and pedagogy; through a series of tasks and engagement in both the community and with ASHP experts, teachers can earn the badge and title of Master History teacher.

Recognizing Principles	Assessing Principles	Motivating Principles	Studying Principles
R1: Use badges to map learning trajectory R2: Align badges to standards R3: Have experts issue badges R4: Seek external backing R6: Use badges as external communication of learning R7: Determine appropriate lifespan of badges	A2: Enhance validity with expert judgment A6: Use formative functions of assessment A9: Promote hard and soft skill sets	M1: Provide incentives M2: Recognize identities M8: Use different types of assessment M6: Give badges for small accomplishments to hook in learners M11: Stimulate competition	S1: Study badge impact S2: Improve badge impact

Youth Digital Filmmaker Badge System

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Nate Otto — No Comments ↓

The Youth Digital Filmmaker Badge System won a grant through the Digital Media and Learning competition to teach Philadelphia students skills involved with the various aspects of making short films and connect this content to their English/Language Arts learning. The program was designed as an Expanded Learning Opportunity (ELO) that ran outside of schools with the ability for students to receive formal “core” school credit for their work.

Recognizing Principles	Assessing Principles	Motivating Principles	Studying Principles
R2: Align badges to standards R3: Have experts issue badges R4: Seek external backing R9: Award formal academic credit for badges	A1: Use leveled badge systems A3: Align assessments to standards A6: Use formative functions of assessment A9: Promote hard and soft skill sets	M1: Provide incentives M2: Recognize identities M4: Display badges to the public M8: Use different types of assessment M11: Stimulate competition

Digital Badges are web-enabled credentials of learning or accomplishment. -Erin Knight, director of the Badge Alliance

Badges contain detailed claims about learning, links to actual evidence of learning, and they're shareable over the web. -Dan Hickey, DPD Project Lead Investigator

To me, digital badges represent the bridge between formal learning & informal structures. -Alex Halavais, DML research competition winner

Open Badges can help people tell a verifiable story about their accomplishments. -Nate Otto, DPD Project coordinator

From a post that served as core inspiration to the DPD Project:
Regardless of where you start, it’s more than likely you’ll end up somewhere other than your intended destination. That’s okay. Systems are living things, and your badge system needs to be flexible. You must embrace a bit of chaos in its design. -Carla Casilli, Director of Design + Practice at the Badge Alliance

Stimulate comptetition:

Implementing a complex leveled hierarchy: S2R

LevelUp

Supporter To Reporter (S2R) Medals

Who Built America Badges for History Education

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