BadgesNon-credit awards from a Faculty Development Program

Scott B. JohnsonProgram Coordinator/Director Illinois Online Network

University of Illinois

http://tinyurl.com/IONBadgesSTEM

The ION Story

1997 1999 – Online Learning: An Overview 2000 – Exemplary Online Education Resource award – WebCT 2001 – first Master Online Teacher certificates 2002 - ION receives the award for Excellence in ALN Faculty

Development from the Sloan Consortium. 2013 – First badges awarded

Growth and Development

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How to Grow Two ways to grow

New customers Existing Customers

About whom am I talking?

Of the 9,107 current profiles, 1,872 have taken only one course

3,225 have not yet registered for a course 74 have taken 5 of the 6 courses required for the

Master Online Teacher certificate but still need the Practicum

Master Online Teacher certificate

Online Learning: An Overview Instructional Design for Online Course Development Student Assessment in Online Courses The Core Choice

A) Universal Design Principles for Online Learning OR B) Encouraging Communication in Online Courses OR C) Technology Tools for Online Learning(One of these courses must be taken. If a second from this group is completed, the second one will count as the elective.)

One Elective Practicum

Certified Online Learning Administrator The core courses:

• AS - Administration Seminar (4 weeks)• QA - Quality Assurance and Accountability • IS - Issues and Strategies in Faculty Training • SS - Supporting Online Students (and supporting students online)

One Elective Course The capstone course:

• AP - Online Administration Practicum (8 weeks)

Badges? Games Incentives/reinforcements Recognizing ‘less-than-certificate’ achievements A digital badge is a validated indicator of accomplishment, skill,

quality, or interest that can be earned in many learning environments. (https://www.hastac.org/initiatives/digital-badges)

Decisions We need a mechanism, what will it be? Where will the badges ‘reside’? What will the criteria be? The badges themselves, they need icons

Mechanism Different ways to do it, we selected the Mozilla Backpack project Why? Why not? Mozilla Backpack

Reside where? (Very small) Badge files reside

on University of Illinois server Badges are exportable to

Backpack http://openbadges.org/

Criteria

What to recognize? MOT is a six-course program, what should the

smaller increments be? CCC has a three-course requirement (OO,ID,SA) 16 ceu blocks or two courses

The pairings: http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/badges/about.asp

Overview and Instructional Design - BUILDER Universal Design and Copyright - COMPLIANCE Global Education and Administration of Online - GLOBAL Quality Assurance and Issues and Strategies - QUALITY Sims, Labs, etc and Tech Tools - TECHNOLOGY Blended Learning and Encouraging Communication - TRANSFORMATION Supporting Students and the Practicum Administration - SUPPORT Practicum and Student Assessment - ASSESS Web Design and Multimedia - WEB Synchronous Classrooms, Group Work, Librarians, Tutoring Online - CLASS Time Management, Social Networking, Mobile Technology, Podcasting-CONNECT Overview, Instructional Design, Student Assessment - CCC Certified Financial Literacy Instructor - CFLI

4,184 badges awarded to date

The ‘Super’ Badges448 claimed of 943 issued (48%)

20 claimed of 25 issued (80%) 19 Institutions represented

Overview and Instructional Design

480 claimed of 1550 issued (31%)

Of 326 badges issued since 2013, 202 claimed (62%)

Universal Design and Copyright

3 claimed of 5 issued (60%)

Global Education and Administration of Online

2 claimed of 4 issued Quality Assurance and

Issues and Strategies 24 claimed of 33 issued (73%)

Sims, Labs, etc and Tech Tools

2 claimed of 9 issued (22%)

Blended Learning and Encouraging Communication

63 claimed of 142 issued (44%)

Supporting Students and the Practicum Administration

17 claimed of 25 issued (68%)

Practicum and Student Assessment

282 claimed of 957 (29%) [102 of 226 since 2013] 45%

Web Design and Multimedia

12 claimed of 30 issued (40%)

Synchronous Classrooms, Group Work, Librarians, Tutoring Online

None awarded yet

Time Management, Social Networking, Mobile Technology, Podcasting

1 claimed of 7 issued

Overview, Instructional Design, Student Assessment

166 claimed of 444 issued (37%)

Certified Financial Literacy Instructor

5 claimed of 9 issued (55%)

The next one?? Maybe yours?

Troubles Complicated? Different emails

Edit .jsn file to matching email address Email addresses don’t match exactly, case matters Old email addresses

Awards never seen Validity?

“What’s the big deal with backpack. Just send me the icon” ‘baking’

Badge day arrives---

That Black Box?

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)

Lightweight data-interchange format Language independent Attribute–value pairs "Self-describing" and easy to understand Largely replacing XML

Openbadges JSON file

* Recipient* Evidence* Badge (Name, Image, Description, Criteria, Issued Date, Issuer)

http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/badges_DFS/mot/Johnson_Scott_1079.json {"recipient":"scottb.johnson@yahoo.com","evidence": "http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/badges/evidence.asp","badge": { "version": "0.5.0", "name": "MOT", "image": "http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/badges/images/mot.png", "description": "Master Online Teacher", "criteria": "http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/badges/criteria.asp", "issued_on": "6/4/2015 9:29:54 AM", "expires":null, "issuer": { "origin": "http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/","name":"Illinois Online Network"} }}

Openbadges verion 1.0.0. /mot/assertion/Johnson_Scott_1079.json* BadgeAssertion* IdentityObject* VerificationObject /mot/badge/Johnson_Scott_1079.json* BadgeClass /mot/issuer/Johnson_Scott_1079.json * IssuerOrganization

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Create link to reclaim badgeClaimLink = "<script src='https://backpack.openbadges.org/issuer.js'></script>"hlink = "javascript:OpenBadges.issue(['http://" & website & "/badges_DFS/" & BadgeName & "/" & jsonfile & "'],function(errors,successes){});"ClaimLink = ClaimLink & "<h4><a href=" & chr(34) & hlink & chr(34) & ">Claim your badge</a></h4>"

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Scott 217-265-7722 sbjhnsn@uillinois.edu

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