This post is intended to provide an overview of information about digital badges and possibilities in teaching and learning. This post is a supplemental piece meant to accompany the column printed in the Journal of Adult and Adolescent Literacy. You can find out more about the column and subsequent interviews in coming weeks. What is…
TL;DR: In this post I provide an overview of the work conducted on the web literacy map learning pathways, specifically the privacy pathway and associated badges. At the bottom of the post I give the link to review the notes from the #openbadges call on 1/28/2015. Work on the web literacy map is progressing at a…
TL;DR version: An update in my continued exploration and development of a digital badging system. At this point…it’s good news. Scroll to the bottom to review the relaunch of the badges. It has been awhile, but throughout this blog I’ve had a thread that documents my trials and tribulations as I build, and rebuild my…
The first group of participants in the #WALKMYWORLD project has come and gone. In their path is the residue of time spent connecting, creating, and sharing in online spaces. Currently we have different groups of individuals going back and finishing their walk, or greeting new participants as they make their way through. It is still…
TL;DR version: Drawing on work from critical evaluation and new literacies theory and research I posit the challenges and design opportunities that arise while considering cognitive authority and where you host your badges when developing your open badge initiative. Warning…what follows is somewhat theoretical…and bit academic. 😉 I’ve been detailing the development of our own open…
I had the opportunity this morning to “speak” to a great group of students in the Two Summers Program at UConn. I previously taught in the program and like to maintain connections with the faculty and students in the program. For this talk I video conferenced in using a Google Hangout on Air, and used…
As part of the Connected Learning MOOC, I wanted to share some of what I’ve learned about digital badges. Most of this learning has been documented here on my blog. I also pieced together a MindMap on Coggle to help me think through this framework. The goal of this blog post is to provide a…
TL;DR version: As we continue to share our thinking and work as we develop an open badging initiative this post shares the results of our literature review on open badging systems…and an argument for their use in our pre-service teacher program. Please review and comment on our work. We’ve been busy here in the Education…
TL;DR version: This blog post shares feedback from a meeting to discuss open badge systems and my thoughts & reflections as we develop our own open badge system. We’ve been undergoing a long process of investigating the possibility of developing and implementing an open badging system for use in some of programs here at the university. This…
One strand of current dialogue online and in the blogosphere revolves around the subject of Open Badges and their use in education. Over the past year I have been investigating the use of Open Badges in education and their possible use in a higher education program. There are challenges and opportunities involved in bringing an…