Digital badges are a way for a person to signal achievements, successes, and experience to others. Mozilla has developed an Open Badges ecosystem that provides a standard way of presenting badges and the data associated with them. Digital badges can contain data that validates who issued the badge, what was done to earn the badge, when it was earned, etc.
As Extension and, in particular 4-H, begins to experiment with badges, it is important to understand what badges represent and how they may be of value to learners. At the same time, we must critically examine how badges fit in with informal and emergent learning.
Join our panel in a conversation around digital badges, their role in Extension, and lifelong learning in general.
The panel will include:
- Tony Cook, Alabama Cooperative Extension
- Brett Bixler, Ph.D. - Lead Instructional Designer &
Educational Gaming Commons Evangelist, Penn State University
- Sheryl Grant, Director of Social Networking for the HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition
This critical conversation will be conducted as a Google+ Hangout On Air. Attendees can view and participate in the conversation on the Google+ Event page (link to be posted) or on the Network Literacy CoP YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/NetworkLiteracyCoP). For more details on eXtension's use of Hangouts On Air see: http://bit.ly/on-air-instructions
See others in the series:
-- Mobile applications: The Mobile Quandary at http://learn.extension.org/events/598
-- BYOD - Smartphones and Tablets in the Workplace at http://learn.extension.org/events/599
-- Cultivating a workforce of knowledge workers at https://learn.extension.org/events/600
-- Personal vs. professional identities in social media at https://learn.extension.org/events/786
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