Digital Badges in Education, edited by Lin Muilenburg and Zane Berge, will be released in April 2016. This work covers a variety of topics around digital badges and their applications in education, including several case studies. Penn State University is represented in four of the chapters with Chris Gamrat as lead author of two […]
Learning Design and Digital Badges
What are digital badges? Digital badges are represent experiences and activities that help to elaborate on a learner’s education and skills. Badges provide a summary of experiences through a variety of stored metadata, such as the issuer, description and evaluation criteria for learning. The concept of digital badges had gained popularity since 2012 when Mozilla […]