Digital badges exposed This presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Please credit Lindsay O’Neill at jlindsayoneill.com. Our academic library has issued thousands of digital badges to students for mastering basic library concepts using tutorials with built-in assessment and our Learning Management System – no manual grading required! Students earn a badge for each tutorial completed with a 100% score (repeatable), and both librarians and faculty may track their progress. Learn how we did it, and let’s discuss how to choose the technologies to structure a sustainable badges program. In this interactive session, participants will learn about effective design and technology for a badges program, including identifying learning objectives and activities that would work well in a badges program and analyzing their campus' learning infrastructure to identify potential opportunities for embedding automated library learning activities. technology behind a library badges program

J. Lindsay O’Neill Instructional Design Librarian Faculty, M.S. Instructional Design & Technology California State University, Fullerton Slides: jlindsayoneill.com/digitalbadges Email: jloneill@fullerton.edu CSUF has 40,000 students and a growing need to scale up information literacy instruction as well as measure our impact with assessment.

Golden rule To be effective, badges need to be meaningful Answer these questions when designing a badge: What does this badge prove? Who will care?

Learning Objectives Describe the Spark Tutorials project at Cal State Fullerton Recall the minimum technology to launch a digital badges program Slides: jlindsayoneill.com/digitalbadges

Spark Tutorials

Badges designed by J. Lindsay O'Neill using Credly. Four existing Spark Tutorials. Each takes about 10-15 minutes to complete. More than 500 students have completed all four, they get the metabadge when they do. Librarians can track learners, faculty can check student completion, students are somewhat motivated by fast pace and earning badges. Seamless experience! Full Spark Tutorials badge art credit: Badges designed by J. Lindsay O'Neill using Credly.  Badge artwork is mostly from thenounproject.com, as follows: Finding Articles and Databases – Library by Peter J. Smits from The Noun Project (CC BY 3.0) Finding Books – Library by The Noun Project (CC 0) Help and Support – Information by Roger Cook & Don Shanosky from The Noun Project (CC 0) Pollak Library Orientation – by Pollak Library Services and Collections – Compass by Alessandro Suraci, from The Noun Project (CC BY 3.0)

Spark Tutorials Structure Pollak Library Services & Collections Services Research services Librarians vs. Circulation vs. ILL Collections Kinds of materials at Pollak How to locate info at Pollak Tools Catalog Books & eBooks Library Catalog Status of print books Call Numbers Databases Define "database" Locate databases by subject Search a database (ASP) Support Self-help Library Guides Library Answers Personalized help Help from librarians Evaluation Source Types Internet vs. the Library Define internet/web source Types of sources at the library Sources and your credibility Common information sources Poplar, Scholarly, Trade Analyze a database record to ID source type Using sources (A) Describe info creation process Info sources vary in relevance and value ID a source type for a given scenario Credibility and Authority CRAAP! Why evaluate? Evaluation criteria Applying CRAAP Apply to given source Judge if a source should be used Evaluate search results Using sources (B) Information can vary in relevance and value Given examples of how to use a source type ID a source type appropriate for a given scenario Primary, Secondary, and Empirical Sources Primary and Secondary sources Empirical sources Searching Introduction to the Research Process Research is a process Steps of research process Research as an investigation Persistence The research question Too broad/too narrow questions Define a research question Determine existing knowledge on given topic Preparing to Search Research strategy Identify relevant information formats Identify relvant databases Keywords Boolean operators Generate related concepts/keywords Construct a search string Conducting the Search Database searching Academic Search Premier Recall databases are literal Use Boolean Operators Analyze a given record to ID source type Locating and collecting articles PDF/HTML formats Find It Button Database features like cite, email, save Revising the search Discover additional keywords by examining search results Revise search strategies according to results Use limiters in left sidebar Opposing Viewpoints Citations Introduction to Citations The conversation Plagiarism Basics of citing Paraphrase/Quotation In-text vs Ref List General knowledge vs. needs to be cited The Major Styles MLA APA Full overview of planned curriculum (see libraryguides.fullerton.edu/cinder)

Services & Collections Pollak Library Services & Collections Services Research services Librarians vs. Circulation vs. ILL Collections Kinds of materials at Pollak How to locate info at Pollak Tools Catalog Books & eBooks Library Catalog Status of print books Call Numbers Databases Define "database" Locate databases by subject Search a database (ASP) Support Self-help Library Guides Library Answers Personalized help Help from librarians Existing four tutorials are first module of planned curriculum – we wrote out the learning objectives and scaffolding first

Lower-level badges = understand and remember levels of Bloom’s Revised “Bloom’s Taxonomy” by Flickr user Center for Teaching Vanderbilt University, CC-BY-4.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/vandycft/29428436431

Spark Tutorials Technology Learning Object Development Software: Articulate Storyline 2 Tutorials packaged as SCORM LMS: Moodle Badges module added onto Moodle IT set up Mozilla Backpack server (to manage badges) SCORM packages embedded into course Badges set up to issue for 100% score on tutorials I did have to bother IT to add the badging module to our system. Assessment Tutorials developed in Articulate Storyline have built-in assessment (simulations and quizzes) Triggering Mechanism Tutorials are embedded as SCORM packages into library course in Moodle Criteria set to issue with 100% score Badge issued Moodle automatically issues digital badges with 100% score

SCORM Defined “SCORM is a set of technical standards for e-learning software products. SCORM tells programmers how to write their code so that it can ‘play well’ with other e-learning software.” From http://scorm.com/scorm-explained/

Instructor: Badge Management Badges set up separately from the SCORM packages, rely upon “complete” setting for each package. We got most of our traffic from First Year Experience program – otherwise spreading by word of mouth. Target was freshmen but xfer and grad students use them too.

Student: Badges in LMS Profile Faculty do complain occasionally that they have to check each student’s profile for badges received. This is the best we can do. Full Spark Tutorials badge art credit: Badges designed by J. Lindsay O'Neill using Credly.  Badge artwork is mostly from thenounproject.com, as follows: Finding Articles and Databases – Library by Peter J. Smits from The Noun Project (CC BY 3.0) Finding Books – Library by The Noun Project (CC 0) Help and Support – Information by Roger Cook & Don Shanosky from The Noun Project (CC 0) Pollak Library Orientation – by Pollak Library Services and Collections – Compass by Alessandro Suraci, from The Noun Project (CC BY 3.0) UA & SC Badges - Vintage photo courtesy of UA & SC, badge design by Lindsay O'Neill

Badge Technology

To Issue a Badge Minimum threshold met? Digital badge issued Assessment Digital badge issued Yes No

Badge Issuing Platforms: Your LMS Moodle Badges functionality must be added/enabled You must create a course and be added as a Badge Coordinator Brightspace/D2L “Awards” tool must be enabled – issue badges or certificates You must create a course and add Course Awards to the course Blackboard Badges functionality must be enabled You must create a course to issue badges Badge Issuing Platforms: http://www.badgealliance.org/badge-issuing-platforms/ According to my research, all of these work on the Open Badges Standard. I can only really speak to Moodle for how to actually make badges go, though.

Badge Issuing Platforms: Purdue Passport Purdue Passport (Pay) Expensive, but allows you to use institutional login, so relatively seamless for learners Badge Issuing Platforms: http://www.badgealliance.org/badge-issuing-platforms/ Purdue Passport costs anywhere from $800/yr to $20,000/yr for up to 30,000 users

Badge Issuing Platforms: Wordpress Use a WordPress.org site with Badge OS plugin and LearnDash (Pay) Cheap-ish, and it’s possible you already use WordPress for campus website Badge Issuing Platforms: http://www.badgealliance.org/badge-issuing-platforms/ Purdue Passport costs anywhere from $800/yr to $20,000/yr for up to 30,000 users

Tutorial Development: Authoring Software Create interactive tutorials and quizzes and package as SCORM: Articulate Storyline 2 Adobe Captivate SoftChalk All cost $$$

Tutorial Development: Your LMS Don’t need fancy software: Build lessons and quizzes using your LMS Use free online tools like Zaption to make practice activities Look for training on campus, or look to Lynda.com/YouTube for tutorials

Make Sure it works User testing. Seriously. User testing. Try it yourself, have your coworkers log in as students and try it, have student workers try it, THEN release it to the world along with contact information and a feedback form in case someone has issues.

Take It Home

Next Steps Get into your LMS (if you’re not already) Make friends with LMS administrators or IT Make friends with campus instructional designers What learning activity software can you use?

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Questions?

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