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Digital Badges in Informal Learning Environments

Authors:
Bradley Barker

Keywords: Digital Badges; informal learning environments; 4-H; Robotics

Abstract:
The awarding of digital badges has become pervasive across social media systems. Digital badges are visual representations of individual accomplishments and/or competencies and skills. The Mozilla Foundation is leading an effort to standardize the issuing and collection of digital badges with the release of the Open Badges Infrastructure (OBI). The OBI provides a framework for educational institutions and employers to issue digital badges and for badge earners to share their badges across social media systems. This paper discusses the idea of incorporating digital badges into the National 4-H Recognition Model (USDA, n.d.). 4-H in the United States is a youth development organization that serves nearly 6.5 million youth and is administered by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). If done properly, the awarding of digital badges may increase the goal setting habits and motivate young people to join positive youth development organizations like 4-H.

Pages: 252 to 255

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: June 23, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3972

ISBN: 978-1-61208-280-6

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from June 23, 2013 to June 28, 2013