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Design Principles for Digital Badge Systems

A Comparative Method for Uncovering Lessons in Ecosystem Design

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This paper describes a method for studying programs that issue Open Badges to recognize learning. The Design Principles Documentation (DPD) Project followed the development of 30 educational programs that planned to issue open digital badges to recognize “lifelong learning” accomplishment. The DPD Project’s aim was to formulate general design principles based on the practices observed among the 30 research subjects. Analysis yielded 37 principles across four researcher-selected functions of digital badge systems: recognizing learning, assessing learning, motivating learning, and studying learning. This work describes this research methodology and its affordances for uncovering relationships between different elements of badge system design and between those elements and the larger project contexts in which they operate.

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This work was made possible by continuing funding and support from the MacArthur Foundation. Contributions to the development of the research and methodology described here were made by Rebecca Itow, Katerina Schenke, Cathy Tran, Andrea Rehak, and Christine Chow.

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  1. Center for Research on Learning and Technology, Indiana University, Indiana, USA

    Nate Otto & Daniel T. Hickey

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  1. IMC AG, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Yiwei Cao

  2. Institute of Informatics, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

    Terje Väljataga

  3. Department of Computer Science, Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Tseung Kwan, Hong Kong SAR

    Jeff K.T. Tang

  4. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR

    Howard Leung

  5. Institute of Informatics, Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

    Mart Laanpere

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Otto, N., Hickey, D.T. (2014). Design Principles for Digital Badge Systems. In: Cao, Y., Väljataga, T., Tang, J., Leung, H., Laanpere, M. (eds) New Horizons in Web Based Learning. ICWL 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8699. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13296-9_20

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