Educational badges

Introduction

Educational badges allow to "tag" all sorts of elements of a learning environment, e.g. learners, teachers, pedagogy. A batch can represent all sorts of information. In education, it can summarize achievements, opinions, interests, etc.

Machine readable badges also can be harvested by search engines.

See also:

• gamification (gamification usually does include batches)

McCrea's Pedagogy badges

Peps Mccrea (University of Brighton) and Jeremy Burton, in the 2012 JISC JISC elevator contest, proposed pedagogy badges. Their purpose are:

• Become more aware of their current e-learning and blended practice
• Become more aware of their desired practice, and how this differs from the above

E Become more aware of the pedagogical affordances of technology for teaching and learning

• Have better discussions about how we teach
• Change the way we teach

(retrieved March 14, 2012)

The initial proposal (to be refined) was made through a video of which we should a screen capture:

Screen shot of the initial 2012 JISC promotion