{"id":4353,"date":"2014-11-13T07:30:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T07:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsletter.alt.ac.uk\/?p=4353"},"modified":"2015-08-20T11:47:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T10:47:04","slug":"alt-innovates-views-on-institutional-deployment-of-digital-badges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/2014\/11\/alt-innovates-views-on-institutional-deployment-of-digital-badges\/","title":{"rendered":"ALT Innovates: Views on institutional deployment of digital and Open badges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a recent question on the ALT-MEMBERS mailing list about the institutional deployment of digital and Open Badges. Issues raised included maintaining institutional branding and quality assurance. Having used Open Badges as part of ALT&#8217;s Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning (ocTEL) here were my thoughts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We used digital\u00a0<span class=\"il\">badges<\/span>\u00a0as part of ALT&#8217;s ocTEL course. Part way through the course we developed a tool which would let students export the digital\u00a0<span class=\"il\">badges<\/span>\u00a0as Open\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Badges<\/span>. This wasn&#8217;t by design as we wanted to only issue Open\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Badges<\/span>\u00a0from the beginning but it wasn&#8217;t possible, but as it turns out this wasn&#8217;t such a bad thing because we found digital\u00a0<span class=\"il\">badges<\/span>\u00a0appeared to work just as well in terms of motivation as Open\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Badges<\/span>(plus digital\u00a0<span class=\"il\">badges<\/span>\u00a0were easier to support without having to explain how the\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Mozilla<\/span>\u00a0Backpack worked). Another thing we discovered was how important the student email address was when issuing Open\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Badges<\/span>\u00a0to Backpack. The Backpack uses a single email address for the person, no aliases, and this has to exactly match the email address the Open\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Badge<\/span>\u00a0was issued to. So if your aspiration is to allow students to collect\u00a0<span class=\"il\">badges<\/span>\u00a0from different sources, not just your institution, you need to issue\u00a0<span class=\"il\">badges<\/span>\u00a0to an email address they are likely to keep (in ocTEL we allowed people to enter the email the\u00a0<span class=\"il\">badge<\/span>\u00a0should be issued to).<\/p>\n<p>In terms of institutional approaches I&#8217;d be very reluctant to wrap digital badging completely in institutional bureaucracy.\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Badges<\/span>\u00a0are useful in trying to reinforce positive actions\/behaviour and work best when you can be responsive. If you limit opportunities for the types of activities or actions you&#8217;d like to reinforce you&#8217;ll most likely break\u00a0<span class=\"il\">badges<\/span>. I&#8217;d be looking at models where departments and individuals can create any\u00a0<span class=\"il\">badges\u00a0<\/span>they like that are clearly not accredit by the institution, with the option of a level set of\u00a0<span class=\"il\">badges<\/span>\u00a0which are clearly accredited\/branded as part of the awarding institution. Overall I&#8217;d be very cautious about issuing Open\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Badges<\/span>\u00a0just yet but still think there is a lot of very useful scope in digital badging. [A recording of a presentation I did about ocTEL and badging is here\u00a0<a style=\"color: #1155cc\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7U-RXiBCS0Y\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7U-RXiBCS0Y<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><p class=\"note\">Martin Hawksey Chief Innovation, Community and Technology Officer, ALT<\/p> <p class=\"note\">If you enjoyed reading this article we invite you to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alt.ac.uk\/get-involved\/membership\">join the Association for Learning Technology (ALT)<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0as an individual member, and to encourage your own organisation to join ALT as an organisational or sponsoring member<\/p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a recent question on the ALT-MEMBERS mailing list about the institutional deployment of digital and Open Badges. Issues raised included maintaining institutional branding and quality assurance. 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