Designing Effective Digital Badges: Applications for Learning

✍ Scribed by Joey R. Fanfarelli, Rudy McDaniel

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 222
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Designing Effective Digital Badges is a hands-on guide to the principles, implementation, and assessment of digital badging systems. Informed by the fundamental concepts and research-based characteristics of effective badge design, this book uses real-world examples to convey the advantages and challenges of badging and showcase its application across a variety of contexts. Professionals in education, game development, mobile app development, and beyond will find strategies for practices such as credentialing, goal-setting, and motivation of their students.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Tables
Figures
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction: What Are Digital Badges, and Why Should We Care?
Overview
Why Badges?
Why Now?
Early Hopes and Concerns
What Is a Digital Badge?
Modern Contexts
Why We Care
Book Structure
Next Up
References
Part I: What Is a Badge, and How Should I Use It?
Chapter 2: How Are Badging Systems Constructed?
Overview
Individual Badges
Badging Hierarchy
Badge Qualities and Types
Conclusion
Next Up
References
Chapter 3: What Can Badges Do?
Overview
Psychological Dimensions of Badging
What Can I Do with Badges?
Next Up
References
Chapter 4: How Do Badges Shape Behavior?
Overview
Badges and Behavior
Studying Behavior
Behavioral Categories for Badges
Motivation
Feedback
Reward
Behavioral Variations
Designing with Behavior in Mind
Next Up
References
Part II: Contexts and Practice
Chapter 5: Using Badges in Videogames
Overview
Why Do We Care about Badges in Games?
A Brief History of Badges in Videogames
How Badges Work in Videogames
Special Characteristics of Videogames
Designing Effective Badges for Videogames
A Few Cautionary Notes
Next Up
References
Chapter 6: Using Badges in Online Learning Systems
Overview
Badging in Learning Systems
Special Characteristics of Online Learning
Build Your Own or Use a Pre-existing Badging System?
Designing Effective Badges for Online Learning
A Few Cautionary Notes
Next Up
References
Chapter 7: Using Badges in Mobile Applications
Overview
An Emerging Market
A Brief History of Mobile Devices and Mobile Badges
Mobile Environments: A Badge-Driven Ecosystem
Special Characteristics of Mobility
Designing Effective Badges for Mobile Use
A Few Cautionary Notes
Next Up
References
Chapter 8: Using Badges in Military Applications
Overview
Why Use Badges in Military Applications?
Badging in Military Applications
Special Characteristics of Military Applications
Designing Effective Badges for Military Applications
A Few Cautionary Notes
Next Up
References
Part III: Evaluation and Evolution
Chapter 9: Badging System Testing and Evaluation
Overview
Badging Subsystems of Interest
System Testing
User Testing
Methodologies
Next Up
References
Chapter 10: Novelty and Badging
Overview
The Trouble with Novelty
What Are Novel Badging Systems?
The Role of Invention
Novelty as Recurrence
Novelty as Recombination
Evaluating Novelty and Novel Outcomes
Next Up
References
Chapter 11: Conclusion: The Future of Badging
Overview
Charting the Future
New Badge Designs
New Badge Genres
New Badge Contexts
Speculative Badging
Conclusion: Why Digital Badges?
References
Index