Kay Scouter, Deakin University: Digital Badges

Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B

DIGITAL BADGES IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF

ASSESSMENT

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Rewriting the future as interactive, connected, personalised

Spatial experience

• Engagement pedagogy

• Whole campus as a

learning space

• Reconfigurable spaces

• Dialogue, comfort,

engagement in virtual and

physical spaces

• Flipping; Active Learning;

Naked Teaching

Assessment

• Assessment for engagement

• All of assessment for

learning

• Reconfigurable assessment

• Dialogue, comfort,

engagement in assessment

• Active assessment

Why badge ?

• ‘Unbundling’

• Rich evidence of learning: unpacking the giant badge

• Gamification of learning

• Speaking to the world

portals

testamurs

The Death of Grades– or Two Rivers in the same Bed?

It’s less Talking at students

Talking to the institution

Transmissive content sharing

Testing knowledge outcomes

Tallying marks to judge student success

It’s more

Facilitated digital learning

Talking to the world

Mentoring for outcomes and standards

Industry-integrated learning

Macro and micro accrediting of learning

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“when you look at this transition from brick

and mortar classes to online space, we

should not strip away the experiential or

social aspects of learning, but we should

find a way to use a way to amplify them”.

Amin Saberi, Stanford 2012

• Peer credit?

• Institutional credit?

How might this work?

Peers warrant that learning evidence meets outcomes and standards

using digital badges

warrant

learning

Institutional badges:

Graduate Learning outcomes

1 Discipline knowledge

2 Communication

3 Digital literacy

4 Critical thinking

5 Problem solving

6 Self-management

7 Teamwork

8 Global citizenship

Mozilla Backpack

D2L Portfolio

...and how to organise?

A big pool of unsorted badges?

Amassing more and more: issue of motive

Domains?

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Gamification?

Within different domains?

Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B

Our graduates

will have

portfolios of

warranted

learning

evidence

openbadges.org

But in the end

http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/1094/open-

badges-portable-credentials-for-learning

THANK YOU!