Social badges dynamics in institutional supported platformsInteractive Session, The PLE Conference, Berlin, 12 july 2013Carlos Santos, Luís Pedro, Sara Almeida and Mónica ArestaUniversity of Aveiro, Portugal

Trabalho financiado por fundos FEDER através do Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade – COMPETE e por Fundos Nacionais através da FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia no âmbito do projeto PTDC/CPE-CED/114130/2009.

Introducing badges

• PLE Conference’12 Aveiro

• Mozilla OpenBadges

• Pros: good to learn

• Cons:

• administration tasks nightmare

• activity stream overflow

Tutorial badges

Tutorial badges

• Automatic attribution

• 4 steps for each badge

• Small research study

• kids liked a lot the badges

• they want more!

• but want to keep institutional roles???

Looking for other examples...

Main Concept (OpenBadges)

Main Concept

issuer learner backpack

reputationrecognition

competences

SAPO Campus approach

• Explore badges for:

• social dimension

• engagement

• communication

• participation

• personal contribution

User-generated badges concept

institutionlearner

+issuer

backpack

reputationrecognition

competences

socialengagement

communicationparticipation

personal contribution

Peer-support for badges attribution concept

issuer

learner+

issuer+

recommender

backpack

decision making supportno need to follow everything

informal contentcommunity engagement

Badge support/endorsement concept

issuer

learner+

issuer+

recommender

backpack

how much support?who supports?

social dynamics

Let’s try it!!!

• PLE Conference discussion (Role playing) - 30 minutes

• Admins: Cristina, Ricardo

• Badges to win, recommend and support?

• Different topic per group

• badges!

• Final presentation

See it in action in SAPO Campus

• http://campus.sapo.pt (homepage)

• http://pleconf.campus.sapo.pt (DIY)

Have your say...• New functionalities

• allow anyone to create and recommend a badge

• allow to upload badge images

• Opportunities

• peer-assessment

• formal/informal blending

• motivation/participation/engagement

• Risks

• cyber-bullying