R3: Credentialed via community | Design Principles Documentation Project

Credentialed via community:

Experts deemed knowledgeable by the members of the badge system’s community boost credibility and back up claims made by badges about learning. In some cases, experts earn badges for skill or content mastery from the badge system.

For more examples of having experts issue badges, please see the following: credentialing via external accredited entity.

Cooper-Hewitt DesignPrep Badges

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Joshua Quick — No Comments ↓

Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt and National Design Museum and technology partner LearningTimes proposed to build the DesignPrep badge system (which at the beginning was called Design Exchange). Their program is a digital badge system that has been integrated into Cooper-Hewitt’s DesignPrep program, which engages underserved high school students in New York City in design activities. The program provides youth the opportunity to develop design, collaboration, and presentation skills through participating in activities focused around fashion, architecture, and 3D design.

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	A1: Use leveled badge systems A2: Enhance validity with expert judgment A6: Use formative functions of assessment A10: Involve students at a granular level	M1: Provide incentives M5: Build outside value for badges M7: Set goals M8: Use different types of assessment M6: Give badges for small accomplishments to hook in learners

EarthWorks

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Joshua Quick — No Comments ↓

The Ohio State University, in collaboration with Digital Watershed, proposed the development of the EarthWorks badging system. Their program is a digital badge system intended to engage K-12 students with the relevance of Native American history and culture through interdisciplinary investigation of earth mounds built by Native American cultures. The project intended these investigations to produce opportunities for discovery and inquiry for current and future participants of the program.

Recognizing Principles	Assessing Principles	Motivating Principles	Studying Principles
R2: Align badges to standards R3: Have experts issue badges	A2: Enhance validity with expert judgment	M2: Recognize identities M8: Use different types of assessment

MOUSE Wins!

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Christine Chow — No Comments ↓

MOUSE offers opportunities for youth to develop skills and dispositions that can translate into the workplace and apply across professional settings. The program trains youth to join teams of help desk experts who provide technology support during the school day. This offers an environment that mirrors the workplace and enables students to gain practical experience. In school, youth receive the opportunity to lead in the field of technology, cultivating skills, and strengthening identities as valued contributors in technology-driven environments, in preparation for the careers and workplace that they would eventually enter. MOUSE explains that their “goal has always been to capture the milestones that emerge along the way as points of reflection (and as wayfinding devices) that empower the user to pursue pathways forward and demonstrate their expertise in learning and professional contexts where not enough of their experiences are being counted” (HASTAC MOUSE Q&A). By introducing youth to communities of practice, MOUSE enables them to gain exposure and develop their skills and teamwork in an age-appropriate professional work setting. The program extends students’ experience after school by connecting them with a peer community with shared interestsy support during the school day. This offers an environment that mirrors the workplace and enables students to gain practical experience.

Recognizing Principles	Assessing Principles	Motivating Principles	Studying Principles
R1: Use badges to map learning trajectory R3: Have experts issue badges R5: Recognize diverse learning	A1: Use leveled badge systems A2: Enhance validity with expert judgment A4: Use performance assessments A10: Involve students at a granular level	M2: Recognize identities M3: Engage with the community M8: Use different types of assessment M6: Give badges for small accomplishments to hook in learners	S2: Improve badge impact

PASA Pathways for Lifelong Learning

Posted on May 13, 2014 by Christine Chow — No Comments ↓

The Providence After School Alliance (PASA) partners with after school and extracurricular programs to offer quality learning experiences to middle and high school students. In their DML Proposal, PASA described their mission “to expand and improve quality afterschool, summer, and other expanded learning opportunities for the youth of Providence by organizing a sustainable public/private system that contributes to student success and serves as a national model” (Stage 1 DML Proposal). Specifically, PASA supports the operations and infrastructure of the local AfterZone network of organizations that administer learning experiences to middle school student and a similar network of organizations offering programs to high schoolers that includes a social and discovery-based website called The Hub.

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 R8: Recognize educator learning R9: Award formal academic credit for badges	A2: Enhance validity with expert judgment A3: Align assessments to standards A6: Use formative functions of assessment	M1: Provide incentives M5: Build outside value for badges M7: Set goals M8: Use different types of assessment M6: Give badges for small accomplishments to hook in learners	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

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

Credentialed via community:

Cooper-Hewitt DesignPrep Badges

EarthWorks

MOUSE Wins!

PASA Pathways for Lifelong Learning

Supporter To Reporter (S2R) Medals

Who Built America Badges for History Education

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