Documentation:Open Badges/Learn/Resources

The following is a list of resources compiled by the Open Badges UBC team. The readings come from badge advocates and experts in the field.

General

• Casilli, Carla. "Persona" (Blog.) Accessed June 10, 2014 from http://carlacasilli.wordpress.com/

• Everhart, Deborah, Frederick M. Hurst and Ellen Wagner. "From Badges to Breakthroughs: Unleashing Learner Potential through Competency-Based Achievements." Last modified June 2014. http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/badges-breakthroughs-unleashing-learner-potential-through-competency-based-achievements

• Finkelstein, Jonathan, Erin Knight, Susan Manning and the American Institutes for Research. “The Potential and Value of using Digital Badges for Adult Learners.” Last modified July 16, 2013. http://lincs.ed.gov/professional-development/resource-collections/profile-716

• Glover, Ian and Farzana Latif. "Open Badges: a visual, learner-centric approach to recognising achievement," The London School of Economics and Political Science, November 13, 2013, accessed from http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2013/11/19/open-badges-learner-centric-approach-to-achievement/

• Glover, Ian, and Farzana Latif. "Investigating perceptions and potential of open badges in formal higher education." In World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, vol. 2013, no. 1, pp. 1398-1402. 2013. Accessed from http://shura.shu.ac.uk/7173/1/Glover_-_Investigating_perceptions_and_potential_of_open_badges_in_formal_higher_education_-_proceeding_112141.pdf

• Knight, Erin. "World of E" (Blog). Accessed June 9, 2014 from erinknight.com

Badge Benefits

• Browne, Kevin. “Benefits to using Badges in the Classroom.” HASTAC (blog), January 30, 2013. http://www.hastac.org/blogs/kyphilosopher/2014/01/30/4-benefits-using-badges-classroom

• Kyle, Peck. “Five MORE reasons to like Badges.” Last modified March 12, 2012. http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/p/1/p16/BadgingAtPSU/Learning_%26_Badges/Entries/2012/3/2_Five_MORE_Reasons_to_Like_Badges.html

Badge Design

• HASTAC. “Project Q and A with Computer Science Student Network Badge System,” accessed May 15, 2013, http://www.hastac.org/dml-badges/cs2n

• Hickey, Daniel. “Recognizing, Supporting, and Attracting Adult learners with Digital Badges.” The Evolllution. Last modified November 20, 2012. http://www.evolllution.com/program_planning/recognizing-supporting-and-attracting-adult-learners-with-digital-badges/

• Hickey, Daniel, Nate Otto, Rebecca Itow, Cathy Tran, Katerina Schenke and Christine Chow. "Design Principles Documentation Project." Accessed June 9, 2014 from http://dpdproject.info/

• HASTAC. "Open Badges Case Study: University California, Davis, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems." February 2014. http://www.reconnectlearning.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/UC-Davis_case_study_final.pdf

Projects

Purdue University

• Ayers, Judith. “Trending: Professors Tout Badges over Grades.” The College Fix, December 13, 2012. Accessed May 15, 2014. http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/12195/

• “Intro to Digital Badges, Part 1: Learner-owned, competency based assessment.” YouTube video, 4:26, Bill Watson's badge presentation, posted by “PurduePoly,” April 16, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O41-BWJ_VE0

Coastal Carolina University

• Reid, Alan and Denise Paster. “Digital Badges in the Classroom.” Inside Higher Ed. Last modified October 11, 2013. http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2013/10/11/how-use-digital-badges-help-your-classroom-teaching-essay#ixzz2jcqTCVxC%20%20Inside%20Higher%20Ed

• “HIGHER EDUCATION TODAY : Digital Badges with guest Daniel Hickey.” YouTube video, 28:00, posted by “gotouniversity,” April 22, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-U2gzwZUHA

University of California at Davis

• Buell, Courntey. “Using Badges to Quantify Learning Outcomes at UC Davis.” edcetera. Last modified August 30, 2013. http://edcetera.rafter.com/using-badges-to-quantify-learning-outcomes-at-uc-davis/

• Fain, Paul. "Badging from Within." Inside Higher Ed. Last modified January 3, 2014. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/01/03/uc-daviss-groundbreaking-digital-badge-system-new-sustainable-agriculture-program#sthash.PhPqMfn9.dpbs

Thompson Rivers University

• Thompson Rivers University. “PLAR Portfolios.” Last accessed April 14, 2014 http://www.tru.ca/distance/plar-ol/plar-sample.html

Pedagogy

• Lerner, Josh and Jean Tirole. “Some Simple Economics of Open Source.” The Journal of Industrial Economics 20, no.2 (2002): 197 - 234. Accessed May 15, 2014 from http://www.jstor.org/stable/3569837

• Hickey, Daniel. “Some Things About Assessment Badge Developers Might Find Helpful.” Remediating Assessment (blog), March 18, 2012, http://remediatingassessment.blogspot.ca/2012/03/some-things-about-assessment-that-badge.html

• Frey, Bruno S. and Reto Jegen. “Motivation Crowding Theory.” Journal of Economic Surveys 15, no.5 (2002): 596. doi: 10.1111/1467-6419.00150

• Archer, Jennifer. “Achievement Goals as a Measure of Motivation in University Students.” Contemporary Educational Psychology 19, no.4 (1994): 437. Accessed May 15, 2014.

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/ceps.1994.1031

• Katz, Idit and Avi Assor. “When Choice Motivates and When it Does Not.” Educational Psychological Review 19 (2007): 432. Accessed May 15, 2014. doi: 0.1007/s10648-006-9027-y

• Hickney, Daniel. Sociocultural Theories of Motivation. Last modified December 23, 2009. http://www.education.com/reference/article/sociocultural-theories-of-motivation/