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DIGITAL BADGESIMAGINING 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 lessTalking at studentsTalking to the institutionTransmissive content sharingTesting knowledge outcomes Tallying marks to judge student success

It’s moreFacilitated digital learningTalking to the worldMentoring for outcomes and standardsIndustry-integrated learningMacro and micro accrediting of learning

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…and also

THE PROBLEM OF CONTEXT

“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 outcomes1 Discipline knowledge2 Communication3 Digital literacy4 Critical thinking5 Problem solving6 Self-management7 Teamwork8 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?

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Our graduates will have portfolios of warrantedlearningevidence

openbadges.org

But in the end

THANK YOU!