Transforming Assessment webinar 5 March: Badges for Learning

[Edtech Editor Hogan]

From: Mathew Hillier [mailto:m.hi...@uq.edu.au]


Transforming Assessment Webinars - sessions at no cost [via EDTECH emailing
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We are back for 2014, starting:

5 March: "Badges for Learning: a review of the formative role of badges in
two open online courses"

Presenter: Simon Cross, Open University, UK

The emergence of open online learning courses brings in to sharp relief the
viability of existing forms of teacher provided formative and summative
assessment. For such courses that carry no charge for participation
alternative structures for engaging, motivating and sustaining study need to
be sought. Badges or similar such visual public symbols that communicate to
others a particular quality, achievement or affiliation possessed by the
owner may have a role to play.
This session will cover some potential social and psychological roles for
badges and then report on the reception and use of badges in two 'massive'
open online courses delivered in 2013. This will highlight the varied
functions badges performed with particular attention to how they may support
and guide learning in a 'formative' capacity during a course and the need
for effective pedagogic design and alignment of the course badging strategy.
This discussion will draw upon data from end of courses surveys that
specifically asked about badges, pre-course surveys, and user comments made
during the course such as on Twitter.

Hosted by: Professor Geoffrey Crisp (RMIT University, Australia) and Dr
Mathew Hillier (Teaching and Educational Development Institute, University
of Queensland, Australia).

Starting *GMT* 07:00AM (Duration approx 1 hour).
See your equivalent local time at
http://timeanddate.com/s/2hw9

Further information and RSVP instructions are at
http://bit.ly/webinar5march2014

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Further information:
These webinars are part of a series of free events covering a range of
e-assessment topics.
Further information on this and future events, recordings of past sessions,
project information and participation/technical help on using the virtual
classroom system can be found on our website at transformingassessment.com
Acknowledgements:
Support for this activity has been provided by the Australian Government
Office for Learning and Teaching, RMIT University and the Teaching and
Educational Development Institute, University of Queensland. The views
expressed in this publication/activity do not necessarily reflect the views
of the sponsoring institutions.

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regards,

Dr Mathew Hillier
Teaching and Educational Development Institute, The University of
Queensland, Australia
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Transforming Assessment



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