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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]
Journal of Clinical and Translational ScienceIn 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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Open badges for education: what are the implications at the intersection of open systems and badging? [PDF]
Research in Learning Technology, 2014 Badges have garnered great interest among scholars of digital media and learning. In addition, widespread initiatives such as Mozilla’s Open Badge Framework expand the potential of badging into the realm of open education. In this paper, we explicate the
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Digital badges: Pinning down employer challenges
Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2021 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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Open Badges: A Systematic Review of Peer-Reviewed Published Literature (2011-2015) [PDF]
EURODL, 2018 Open badges are a digital representation of skills or accomplishments recorded in a visual symbol that is embedded with verifiable data and evidence. They are created following a defined open standard, so that they can be shared online.
Tharindu R. Liyanagunawardena +2 more
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Digital badges: An evaluation of their use in a Psychiatry module
The Asia Pacific Scholar, 2023 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]
Education and Information Technologies, 2016 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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Digital Badge Metadata: A Case Study in Quality Assurance
Journal 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
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MOTIVATING ENVIRONMENTAL CITIZEN SCIENTISTS AND OPEN DATA ACQUISITION ON OPENSENSEMAP WITH OPEN BADGES [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2023 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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Journal of Scholarly Engagement, 2022 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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Education Sciences, 2022 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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