Peter Evans (@eksploratore) is based at The University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Education, Community and Society in the School of Education. He teaches on the MSc in Digital Education and researches into professional learning in open online environments and digital education.

Reflecting Student Needs

The University of Edinburgh are utilising open badges, which are awarded via Moodle, in two ways. First, as part of the course, Introduction to Digital Environments for Learning (IDEL). This course has a two-week section on open education; the first week focuses on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), whilst the second week looks at open digital badges. Assessment for this second week asks students to reflect and briefly blog on open badge systems with students being awarded a badge to recognise completion of the activity. Blog posts are also shared and reused as examples in future iterations of the course. For example, this piece by Stuart Nicol examines Mozilla Open Badges and their use for both non-formal and formal accreditation

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