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Analysts look at badges as a way for adults to get career-oriented skills that are marketable. Even though elite schools have the benefit of name recognition, micro-credentials could get applicants far by showing, in detail, the skills they have mastered and how they had to prove it. Just as they started offering their own MOOCs when that was seen as an industry game-changer, traditional colleges and universities are increasingly experimenting with micro-credentials to keep up with the innovation curve.

"Have you tried to gamify your classroom? Do you incorporate game-based learning into your curriculum? Gamification and game-based learning have become buzzwords in education yet some general confusion still exists regarding what each is and what each is not ..."

Does this work as a metaphor?

As schools progress to include online and on-campus courses, digital badges are well-suited to meet the needs of new education models.

Open Badges are online indicators of skills learned inside or outside the classroom. In order to understand how badges might be used to support learning and development in higher education, Ian Glo...

Open Badges are online indicators of skills learned inside or outside the classroom. In order to understand how badges might be used to support learning and development in higher education, Ian Glo...

The Harvard Business Review named elearning badges as one of the most innovative trends to watch in 2013, and two years later, lms badge functionalities have only gotten better. A digital Moodle badge is essentially an online recognition of your achievements and skills. If a user has a number of certifications, for example, they can receive and display lms badges online to recognize their achievement or competency. Moodle badges can be given out based on a number of different achievements or criteria. With the ability to track a recipient’s communities of online interaction, a Moodle badge will show the work completed, and the outcomes learned to achieve said badge.

Moodle Badges are a great motivation and engagement tool to award students for their progress and hard work. It is a simple, yet effective way of accrediting learning. Moodle Badges motivate students who have received them to work hard to gain more, and they motivate other students to work hard to gain their own badges. Badges can be managed at either the course or site level.

Badges come in two varieties. First, there are site badges. These can be used across Moodle, and are offered for activities that are site-wide, such as completing a set of courses. Second there are course badges, which are awarded for activities within a specific course.

Students can view each other’s badges by going to the “Participants” tab on the Navigation bar, and clicking on the user’s course profile. Teachers can both add, and manage badges in their courses, as long as the administrator has enabled course badges in Administration>Site administration>Badges settings. Teachers can also add their own badges, with a title, issuer (i.e. teacher) detail, badge expiry date, and criteria for receiving the badge.

If you are managing your own Moodle badges, you can do so by going to Navigation>My profile>My badges. You can also view all available course badges at Navigation>Current course>Badges. You can see what badges other students in the course has, by going to Navigation>Participants, and clicking on the user’s profile.

Para probar la mochila, podemos conseguir dos badges o insignias, desde la propia web de Mozilla Open Badges, respondiendo a un par de sencillos cuestionarios. Os recomiendo que vuestros alumnos los hagan porque tienen mucho que ver con aspectos de la competencia digital y el aprendizaje no formal.

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Open Badges are online indicators of skills learned inside or outside the classroom. In order to understand how badges might be used to support learning and development in higher education, Ian Glo...

Ponía como ejemplo de Gamificación ayer en Vitoria el de “Superbetter”,  un juego ideado por Jane McGonigal que se utiliza para promover actitudes de superación personal (curación de enfermedades, dejar de fumar, etc).  La idea es trabajar la resiliencia...

Global Gateway, a VIF program hosted in our new online learning center, will soon feature digital badging for teachers around the globe.