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Last week during the Open Badges community call, we introduced a new repeating discussion area: badge system design. (We're considering expanding badge system design into a standing call of its own... Via Jasmin Hodge 
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April 24, 2:34 PM
Another great blog post from Carla Casmilli, Project Leader at Mozilla Open Badges. It has answered some of my questions about how the rest of the community felt about Open Badges, excited about the future of eassessment. 
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May 7, 9:28 AM
Understanding the design is essential in advising people how to jump on the bandwagon. It tells them how fast it is moving, how high the sides are, who is in the wagon to offer a hand up, and where it is heading. However, those of us who delight in technology also need to help others fit their industry, classes, and programs into practical application of badges in offering documentation of learning or credentialling.
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With the help of Totara's free Moodle installation and the wonderful Karl Goddard, I set about making an openbadge in Moodle that could be earned by a student, issued by Moodle and displayed and saved in a Mozilla backpack.
Here is the first of 6 videos - How I made the quiz in Moodle
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You may have heard but we launched Open Badges 1.0 on Thursday at the DML Conference. Here are some places to read more: Via Ana Cristina Pratas 
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March 17, 1:10 PM
A digital badge is an online representation of a skill you’ve earned. Open Badges takes that concept further, and allows you to verify your skills, interests and achievements through a credible organization. And because the system is based on an open standard, you can combine multiple badges from different issuers to tell the complete story of your achievements — both online and off. Badge earners can display their badges wherever they want them on the web, and share them for employment, education or lifelong learning. Delete the scoop?
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Perhaps the best way to think about games in education is not to automatically call everything that looks like fun a “learning game.” Lumping all digital... Via Ana Cristina Pratas Delete the scoop?
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Gamification is the process of applying game design elements to non-game contexts in order to drive user engagement, influence behavior and improve the user exp Delete the scoop?
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Although I know many passionate and skillful teachers, I have to say that much of what I learned as a child, I learned in spite of school, not because of it, so this quote resonated a bit with me: ... Delete the scoop?
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Remember 2011? I know... it seems like a long time ago. This time last fall, we were just wrapping up an 8 part blog series on gamification and game based learning. Via Ana Cristina Pratas Delete the scoop?
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We're making school more fun and engaging through the use of gamification. This is a crowdfunding campaign to help us raise funds to complete the project. Check out the rewards below and contribute... Delete the scoop?
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Gamification 101: Why A Badge Is Better Than An A...
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Talk at VS-GAMES 2012 about learning analytics in educational games. Ángel Serrano-Laguna, Javier Torrente, Pablo Moreno-Ger and Baltasar Fernández-Manjón. Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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May 7, 9:44 AM
I presented on using badges internationally and more people are interested in how to motivaste learners. The advantage that badges have over 8-15 week courses is that they are presented in smaller chunks (building blocks) of material. This is great for NEETs and others who do not do well with long term goals or even semester-long goals. Now you can build mastery levels with proven success with differentiated learning and hopefully, eventually excite disenfranchised youth to engage in self-motivated lifelong learning.
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Game-based learning can turn disconnected, bored learners into engaged participants.
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A presentation about the history, current state, and future of Mozilla's Open Badges Infrastructure given at SETT (Scandinavian Educational Technology Transformation) 2013. An excellent Slideshare ... Delete the scoop?
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There seems to be a perception that online gaming has a detrimental impact on children’s development. Nothing could be further from the truth, and there are countless–and complex–reasons for this, but it also makes sense at the basic benefits of game-based learning.
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April 12, 1:18 PM
These benefits also apply to adults using game-based learning for business or personal develoment. 
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April 19, 7:07 AM
Very true. It does help children to be more attentive and develops their level of concentration.
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May 7, 9:32 AM
Adults need motivation and challenging opportunities too. When I earned my first learning badge at a conference it is tied to actively participating, recommending other attendees for recognition (which meant I had to read the posts and engage) and share the information with others. If adults attended conferences that way instead of merely attending they would return to work energized to share that information with others for the entire department to benefit from sending a small team to an event.
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We are not totally gamifying our classrooms or currently using Edmodo, so this year I was not really considering the possibility of awarding my students digital badges. Via Ana Cristina Pratas Delete the scoop?
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Are points and badges a waste of time, or the key to unlocking hidden motivation in college students? Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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May 7, 9:41 AM
I had freshmen who were excited about learning a topic in a class and I did not think extra credit was the answer. Pointing them to a tutorial to delve deeper into the application than I planned to go got surprising results. 15 of the students started boasting about the final assessment score they achieved on the tutorial, another 8 entered the race to beat the score and in the end of 108 student 45 passed the tutorial on a topic I would have walked away from that they all agreed in a followup session will help them in other classes. They were delighted with learning something on their own for their own benefit and using the class as a place to share that success. Most of them posted their scores and we did the same thing for some memory enhancement games but it would have been better if they had a badge with specific learning outcomes that could be shared in social media. One student said that some of her friends who did not take my course did the tutorial too.
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Games for learning have been shown to be effective in academic studies stretching back over the last 30 years. Delete the scoop?
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There are myriad ways in which gamification can play a positive role in the educational setting. Via EDTC@UTB, Gianfranco D'Aversa
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May 7, 9:47 AM
I like to think of it as stealth learning where the learner acquires new KSAs technically - under the radar - and didn't remember 'learning' anything. It is as close to learning osmosis as we might currently hope for.
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Here are just a few of the great sites that are embracing game-based learning, helping make studying more fun. Delete the scoop?
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Thanks to an ever richer assortment of educational games, students at nearly all levels of schooling are getting the chance to learn while having fun, experimenting, and practicing essential skills through video games. Delete the scoop?
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Following on from a recent post The Pedagogies in Game Based Learning, this article will look at how Gagné’s Nine Events of Instruction can be applied to game based learning. Via Anna Goldfeder, Juan Alberto L Uribe Delete the scoop?
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