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How and why are digital badges being used in higher education in New Zealand?

open access: yes, 2021
Digital technologies, as mediators and facilitators of learning, are altering tertiary education; how and when it occurs, what it entails, who has access, and how capabilities and skills are acknowledged.
Maggie Hartnett
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Do Open Data Badges Influence Author Behaviour? a Case Study at Springer Nature

open access: yesInternational Journal of Digital Curation, 2020
Digital badges have previously been shown to incentivise journal authors to share their data openly. In this paper we introduce an Open data badging project at the Springer Nature journal BMC Microbiology.
Rebecca Pearce, Rebecca Grant
doaj   +1 more source

The live social semantics application: A platform for integrating face-to-face presence with on-line social networking [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
We describe a novel application that integrates real-world data on the face-to-face proximity of individuals with their identities and contacts in on-line social networks.
Alani, Harith   +5 more
core   +3 more sources

Sustainable Labels in Tourism Practice: The Effects of Sustainable Hotel Badges on Guests’ Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions

open access: yesSustainability
Sustainable practices are becoming increasingly important to tourists and hotel guests. As a result, destinations, hotels, and booking platforms are implementing eco-friendly practices and displaying sustainable badges to communicate their efforts to ...
Maksim Godovykh, A. Fyall, Carissa Baker
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Use of Badges as Achievements to Enhance Online Learning

open access: yesArchives of Medicine and Health Sciences
Background and Aim: Digital badges are electronic symbols used as microcredentials to document achievement or skills mastered such as course completion, professional development participation, or training completion. The use of digital badges is trending
B. V. Swaroop Raj, C. Divya
doaj   +1 more source

Digital Badge Metadata: A Case Study in Quality Assurance

open access: yesJournal of Innovation in Polytechnic Education, 2021
Digital badges are competency-based credentials that provide specific information within the metadata. However, there appears to be no research investigating the quality of the information conveyed in the metadata. To better understand how to convey the
Jonathan Lau
doaj   +1 more source

Did awarding badges increase data sharing in BMJ Open? A randomized controlled trial

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2020
Sharing data and code are important components of reproducible research. Data sharing in research is widely discussed in the literature; however, there are no well-established evidence-based incentives that reward data sharing, nor randomized studies ...
A. Rowhani-Farid   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Validation of a smartphone app to map social networks of proximity

open access: yes, 2017
Social network analysis is a prominent approach to investigate interpersonal relationships. Most studies use self-report data to quantify the connections between participants and construct social networks. In recent years smartphones have been used as an
Boonstra, Tjeerd W.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Assessing technical candidates on the social web [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This is the pre-print version of this Article. The official published version can be accessed from the link below - Copyright @ 2012 IEEEThe Social Web provides comprehensive and publicly available information about software developers: they can be ...
Capiluppi, A, Serebrenik, A, Singer, L
core   +2 more sources

Gamification in higher education and stem : a systematic review of literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In recent years, gamification, the use of game elements in non-game contexts, has drawn the attention of educators due to the possibility of making learning more motivating and engaging; this led to an increase of research in the field.
Chiluiza, Katherine   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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