(Badge for Digital Learning)
I like the idea from the Badges for Lifelong Learning video which is “students can take digital citizenship course and earn the digital citizenship course badge to unlock all kind of privileges in the school settings”. We had a group discussion last week about how to prepare students & instructors for online courses, especially when some people assume that online courses are easier than traditional courses but it is actually the opposite. One idea we proposed was students need to take a 2 credits course or a seminar on digital literacy before they take any online courses to prepare themselves. Or students can earn a Digital Learning badge after attending and completing the workshop to demonstrate that they have the basic knowledge and compliance of online learning before taking any courses.
More Info about Mozilla Badges Project (http://openmatt.org/2012/01/05/badges-competition/)
The first time I saw badges is on Plurk, which is a social media like Twitter. They offered different badges like 1000 profile views, 1000 responses, responded over 1000 times for encouragement and fun. Another interesting Plurk has is Karma. Your Karma number will go higher if you have more friends, post on Plurk daily, and update your profile pictures. The more you plurk and more responses you get, the higher Karma you will have. Some people really care about their Karma and feel bad to see the number go down. If we applied the Karma idea in open course: the more you post and more you response, the higher Karma you get. It could be a way to encourage student engagement in discussion board. However, the instructors need to make sure the quality of posts in the meantime.
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