ELT: A review of the design and implementation of digital badges at a university – instructor and student perceptions.

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Short Description

Digital or open badges offer a novel approach to assessment, combining motivational elements, transparency of learning objectives and the credentialing of learning achievements. This presentation describes a study of how major users of digital badges at the university approached the design and implementation of the badges, and what instructors’ and students’ perceptions of the badges are. Digital badges were implemented for professional development, for credentialing extra curricular learning, in individual courses, and across entire programs.

Authors

• William Watson, Purdue University

• Elizabeth Brott Beese, Purdue University

• Chad M. Mueller, Purdue University

• Sunnie Watson, Purdue University