Open Digital Badges - A conversation with Dr. Daniel Hickey & James Willis Ph.D.
Channel: Center for Online Innovation in Learning
Date: 2014-12-07

Unlike conventional credentials, open digital badges can contain specific claims about learning, detailed evidence supporting those claims, and links to additional claims and evidence. This wealth of information can then circulate in digital networks and be annotated and curated by the earner. Proponents argue that this new way of recognizing learning will be both transformative and disruptive.

During this COIL Conversation, Dr. Daniel Hickey summarizes how major learning management systems are incorporating digital badges, the entrepreneurial and university-based support system emerging around this new feature, and examples of badge-induced transformation and disruption. He also briefly summarizes the results of a two year study of the badging practices across the 30 awardees in 2012 Badges for Lifelong Learning Initiative.

Daniel T. Hickey is an Associate Professor and Program Coordinator with the Learning Sciences Program at Indiana University and a Research Associate with the IU Center for Research on Learning and Technology. He and his colleagues are completing a two year study of the badge design principles that emerged across the thirty awardees in the 2012 Badges for Lifelong Learning initiative and have just launched a new two year effort to expand innovative uses of open digital badges in higher education. James E. Willis, III, Ph.D. is a research associate in the Center for Research on Learning and Technology at Indiana University. James earned a Ph.D. in comparative religion from King’s College London and worked most recently in educational assessment at Purdue University. His areas of research include educational technology, digital badges, and the intersection of new technologies and ethics.

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