Digital Badge Design Principles for Recognizing Learning

Cross-posted at HASTAC by Andi Rehak and Daniel Hickey This post introduces the design principles for recognizing learning that are emerging  from the Design Principles Documentation Project (DPD).  A previous post summarized how the DPD project derived these principles. This is the first of four posts, to be followed...

Badges Design Principles Database Project: Update on New Principles

by Daniel HickeyThis post is cross-posted at HASTAC.  This post is a brief update about the design principles that have emerged in our analyses and interviews of the 30 DML badges awardees. We will begin posting the initial set of design principles for using digital badges to support learning. Specifically we will put up consecutive...

Online Open Courses Raises Eleven Issues for Higher Education

by Daniel Hickey            I introduce eleven issues that I am going to have to address with my university in order to teach a free open online course on educational assessment.  I then explore the first issue, Intellectual Property, and how that issue intersects with instructional innovation in open courses. ...