Post on 22-Jan-2017
How to integrate and automatically issue
Open Badges in MOOC platforms
Mario Wüster & Martin Ebner
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is a xMOOC platform for courses with an explicit open license
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Austrian National Price of Adult Education 2015
Inverse Blended Learning concept
How to realize the automation process by simultaneously maintaining simplicity in managing and earning open badges in
MOOC platforms?
Why Badges?
• Hard to motivate learners to actively participate in non-formal and informal educational systems if they do not get any recognition for their achievements
• Mostly no recognition at all for gained skills if a course has not been completed (just summative feedback)
• No common standard for acknowledgements
• Certificates are not digitially signed
License by https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/FAQs
License by https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Onboarding-Issuer
License by https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Onboarding-Issuer
License by https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Onboarding-Issuer
License by https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges/Onboarding-Issuer
Prototype for an automatic issuer implemented at platform
Features
• Badge management via backend
• Assert badges manually
• Assert badges automatically - triggered by the iMooX user
• Display rudimentary awarding statistics
• Support of two different types of badges (Quiz-Level Badge, Course-Level Badge)
Badge Awarding Process
Single Badge
Mozilla Backpack
https://backpack.openbadges.org/share/3c31b2df45c454430e8b17c0c1cac529/
Overview
Mozilla Backpack
https://backpack.openbadges.org/share/3c31b2df45c454430e8b17c0c1cac529/
Collections
Mozilla Backpack
https://backpack.openbadges.org/share/3c31b2df45c454430e8b17c0c1cac529/
Single Badge
OpenBadgePassport
https://openbadgepassport.com/pages/792/view
Overview
OpenBadgePassport
https://openbadgepassport.com/pages/792/view
Public Portfolio
Evaluation of the automatic issuer implemented at platform
Evaluation
http://imoox.at
432 enrolled users -> 128 (28,7%) at least one quiz
208 theoretically earned badges ->137 (66%) actually generated badges
Badge issuing can be implemented relatively fast and easy and improve the
certification performance of MOOC platforms
Graz University of Technology
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
Graz University of TechnologyMartin Ebner
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