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Badged up for success: Digital badges enable graduate students to become confident communicators via real-world opportunities and to document their skills for employers [PDF]
In January 2023, the South Carolina Science Writing Initiative for Trainees (SC-SWIFT), an internship in the College of Graduate Studies at the Medical University of South Carolina, began offering tiered digital badges in science communications.
Kimberly McGhee +3 more
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Digital badges: Pinning down employer challenges
Digital badges hold considerable potential for employers and recruiters, as they evidence accomplishments of skills and competencies at a more granular level than a traditional degree certificate.
Joy Perkins, Mary Pryor
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Digital badges: An evaluation of their use in a Psychiatry module
Introduction: Digital Badges have emerged as an alternative credentialing mechanism in higher education. They have data embedded in them and can be displayed online.
Edyta Truskowska +2 more
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Digital Badges in Education [PDF]
Digital badges provide new affordances for online educational activities and experiences. When used with points and leaderboards, a badge can become a gamification element allowing learners to compete with themselves or others, and to know how close they are to accomplishing a goal and acquiring its accompanying reputation.
Gibson, David +4 more
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MOTIVATING ENVIRONMENTAL CITIZEN SCIENTISTS AND OPEN DATA ACQUISITION ON OPENSENSEMAP WITH OPEN BADGES [PDF]
Citizen science projects making the public part of scientific research are a growing trend and often have a strong geospatial focus with mapping and observation activities on biodiversity or environmental topics.
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Digital Badge Metadata: A Case Study in Quality Assurance
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
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The purpose of this reflective critique was to explore faculty approaches to engage and motivate students while promoting community and building skills in the online classroom.
Thomas D. Dyer, R. Jacob Aroz
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Badges in education are an increasingly popular phenomenon, and a variety of questions exists as to the abilities and effectiveness of badges. In this study, the effect of digital badges within a Moodle-based online homework system was studied for an ...
James Uanhoro, Shelley Shwu-Ching Young
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Exploratory Study: Digital Badging [PDF]
Aim/Purpose: To inform educational stakeholders about of the emerging digital educational badging technology, the industry, and how it applies to adult learning. Background: An overview of the developing badging system, concepts, key terminology, advantages, challenges, and examples of badge utilization. Methodology: Exploratory study. Contribution:
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A pilot program was developed for middle school (grades 6-8) educators and students to apply NASA real-world problems to classroom concepts as part of NASA Langley Research Center’s (LaRC) Centennial Celebration through the use of digital badges.
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