Facilitated by Glendale Community College and Mesa Community College
Glendale Community College, CTLE HT2 - 139
August 20, 26, and September 6, 2013
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Register Here to Attend Glendale's Facilitation of the Short Course Webinar Series: http://www.gccaz.edu/CTLE/
Mesa Community College, CTL
August 20, 26, and September 6, 2013
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Description: Digital badges are receiving a growing amount of attention and are beginning to disrupt the norms of what it means to earn credit or be credentialed. Badges allow the sharing of evidence of skills and knowledge acquired through a wide range of life activity, at a granular level, and at a pace that keeps up with individuals who are always learning—even outside the classroom. As such, entities not traditionally in the degree-granting realm—such as museums, associations, online communities, and even individual experts—are now issuing “credit” for achievement they can uniquely recognize. At the same time, higher education institutions are rethinking the type and size of activities worthy of official recognition. From massive open online courses (MOOCs), service learning, faculty development, and campus events to new ways of structuring academic programs and courses or acknowledging the granular or discrete skills that these programs explore, there’s much for colleges and universities to consider in the wide open frontier called badging.
NOTE: Participants will be asked to complete assignments between the course segments that support the learning objectives stated below and will receive feedback and constructive critique from course facilitators on how to improve and shape their work.
Objectives:
During this online ELI Short Course, participants will:
Explore core concepts that define digital badges, as well as the benefits and use in learning-related contexts
Understand the underlying technical aspects of digital badges and how they relate to each and the broader landscape for each learner and issuing organization
Critically review and analyze examples of the adoption of digital credentials, both inside and outside higher education
Identify and isolate specific programs, courses, or other campus or online activities that would be meaningfully supported and acknowledged with digital badges or credentials
Consider the benefit of each minted badge or system to the earner, issuer, and observer
Develop a badge constellation or taxonomy for their own project
Consider forms of assessment suitable for evaluating badge earning
Learn about design considerations around the visual aspects of badges
Create a badge issuing plan
Issue badges
Presenter:
Jonathan Finkelstein
Jonathan Finkelstein is founder and CEO of Credly, which empowers anyone to issue, store, display, and promote digital credentials recognizing any of life's achievements. Jonathan is Director of the BadgeOS Project, an open source platform that enables anyone to create or transform web sites and mobile apps into systems for recognizing and rewarding achievement. With over 3,000 organizations issuing badges using Credly, BadgeOS and other Open Credit-enabled apps and sites, Credly is the most popular platform for issuing and managing digital credentials and Open Badges. As founder of LearningTimes, Jonathan has worked with hundreds of mission-driven organizations to produce and launch online programs, applications and events that connect learners to expertise, while cultivating new generations of experts.
For more information visit: http://www.educause.edu/eli/events/eli-short-course-digging-badges