This document discusses the use of collaborative self-managed digital badges in MOOCs. It defines digital badges as validated representations of skills or accomplishments that can be earned. MOOC platforms currently have their own certification systems using digital badges. The document proposes a model for a MOOC that uses a community of experts to review evidence and issue badges collaboratively. This could automate the MOOC and add value through expert review, but would also face challenges around spam and reliance on expert knowledge and criteria.
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Collaborative digital badges in MOOC 25/06/20
1. Use of collaborative self-
managed badges in a
MOOC
Oriol Borrás Gené @oriolTIC
Laboratory of Information Technologies in Education - LITE Group
2. From OCW to MOOC
OCW
(2001 April MIT
OCW)
MOOC
(2008 - cMOOC)
OER
(2002) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6qDb25Wz5k
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316884173_European_Innovations_in_Education_Research_Models_and_Teaching_Applications
3. What is a digital badge
Validated representation (image with information “baked” into
it) of accomplishment, skill, quality or interest earned by one
user (different contexts)
https://openbadges.org
4. What is a digital badge
● Validated representation
(image with information
“baked” into it) of
accomplishment, skill,
quality or interest earned
by one user (different
contexts)
● Granulated representation
of skills / accomplishment
Credentials big and small… by Visual Thinkery is licenced under CC-BY-ND
5. What is a digital badge
● Validated representation ( image with information “baked”
into it) of accomplishment, skill, quality or interest earned
by one user (different contexts)
● Granulated representation of skills / accomplishment
● New way to capture and communicate
● Certification/Gamification
6. What is a digital badge (Open Badges)
● Open Badges 2.1
● Roles:
○ Earner
○ Issuer
○ Consumers
Open Badges 2.0 by Visual Thinkery is licenced under CC-BY-ND
7. What is a digital badge (issuing)
Issuing Open Badges by Visual Thinkery is licenced under CC-BY-ND
“Can gain in value depending on the additional information they
can contain.”
8. What is a digital badge (issuing)
Issuing Open Badges by Visual Thinkery is licenced under CC-BY-ND
● Verified by reputable institutions
● Badges may be “endorsed” by third
parties, giving them additional status and
rigour
● Responsibility (all roles)
● Self-issue (or “claim”) based on evidence you can provide that
meets the criteria
● Issued to you for specific knowledge, skills, or behaviours you
have demonstrated.
Source: https://clalliance.org/blog/badges-proof-pathways/)
9. Digital badges and MOOC
MOOC platforms have their
own certification systems for
their courses (i. e. digital
badges)
In MiriadaX:
13. Social Networks in education NEW cMOOC
● Contents from MOOC
● OCW Philosophy (OER)
● Towards total automation:
○ Student resources
○ Test
○ Certifications
14. Social Networks in education NEW cMOOC
RESOURCES:
● Hashtags
● Link to searches
23. Conclusions
• Community of experts (review the evidences and issue the badge)
• Added value from this experts
• The MOOC is automated
• Disadvantages:
• Limitations: This is a project that is being implemented but has not yet been
disseminated
• It would be interesting to combine with forums like Stackoverflow (Gamified open Q&A
forum model as a platform for a cMOOCs and Slides) with the collaborative badges in a totally
self-managed MOOC.
• Spam (forms and badge applications)
• Depends on the expert’s criteria and their knowledge (-> CONSUMERS)
24. Thank you for your attention
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Editor's Notes
MOOCs are the natural evolution of OCWs and OERs, where a guide from a teaching team is added, the duration is limited to a specific period of time and the participant must register on a platform where it is increasingly common for him to have to pay either for the certificate or even to see the whole course. The student will only be able to register for the course on a certain date and if the course has already passed it is likely that he will not be able to see its contents.
There are two teaching strategies or types of MOOC, on the one hand we have the xMOOC, those more constructivist with a structure more similar to a traditional online course. These are the most widespread and the course is always given within a platform such as Coursera, Edx or for Spanish speakers MiriadaX. In some cases, it is usual to complete it with some social network. On the other hand, there are the cMOOCs that are committed to a more collaborative design, in which the contents generated by the teachers take second place, based on learning theories such as connectivism, and on the generation of networks among the students, who usually share their personal blogs or social networks in which they publish content about the MOOC. This type of course is more distributed and complex to follow.
Decir que mantuvimos la filosofía de los MOOC, en concreto de los cMOOC, con una comunidad de aprendizaje asociada, la posibilidad de certificarse y todo sin depender de nadie de ningún profesor…
Which, after completing its fourth edition in 2015, has been moved completely open to a blog on the WordPress platform in which the contents are as they are (https://blogs.upm.es/rsemooc/), both the videos and the texts
You don’t need to register to see the contents,
Recursos creados por los participantes c-MOOC - en redes sociales y recopilado a través de hashtags y enlaces directos a la comunidad, búsquedas
and questionnaires have been moved to Google Forms (eg: https://blogs.upm.es/rsemooc/cuestionario-de-autoevaluacion/).
users can certify their knowledge using Badgelist platform badges that experts (who have previously obtained a badge) give to new earners.
To solve the problem of certification and that this does not depend on the teaching team, it was decided to create collaborative badges through the Badgelist platform, independent of the blog platform.
To obtain the course badge, the user must join the badge and upload the compulsory MOOC activities to it (4 screenshots of each questionnaire completed by each of the modules and a final course activity in a text file) and request feedback.
Any person who has previously obtained the badge can evaluate it positively or send a feedback in order to improve the evidence provided to the badge and award it when it has been done. After you have awarded the badge other badge awarders are able to add additional validations. In this way it will only be necessary for the teaching team to evaluate the first candidates for a badge, the rest is generated in a collaborative way.
I changed my position in other University, but it is a way that we consider interesting to use the badges in a collaborative strategy in massive courses, and we think is an interesting theoretical approach or model to use.