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Unbundling with Digital Badges: �A Personalized Approach to Faculty Development

G. Christopher Clark �G. Alex Ambrose

Kaneb Center for Teaching & Learning

University of Notre Dame

https://www.educause.edu/conferences-events/presenter-concierge/deliver-presentation

The online program Teaching Well Using Technology helps faculty and graduate students learn to integrate technology in ways that enhance learning. Originally an all-or-nothing certificate that was difficult to earn, the program was unbundled into four modules of open content. The personalized approach lets participants choose content and recognizes module completion with a digital badge. Participants work at their own pace, using an e-portfolio to share material they create for their subject. This session will feature a discussion of the program and preliminary results from a SoTL study. Attendees will also engage in collaboratively designing badges for their institutions.

Outcomes: Explore the benefits of personalizing a training program by increasing learner choice, autonomy, authentic tasks, and customization *Identify roles that digital badging and e-portfolios can play in meeting the goals of a faculty development center *Learn how a large training program can be unbundled into modules where completion is recognized through digital badges

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Private, Catholic (2% of faculty are clergy)
10,700 students (81% undergrads)
1842 - founded in South Bend, Indiana
1996 - Kaneb Center for Teaching & Learning

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2017 ELI Annual Meeting goals

Engage those who teach
Enable them to innovate�and discover successful practices

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Face-to-face → online
All-or-nothing → badges
Project-oriented, evidence-based
ePortfolio for participant work

http://twut.nd.edu/

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PERSONALIZED educational development

Content: options
Pace: deadlines
Sequence: paths
Utility: your discipline
Goals: badge ➤ certificate ➤ all

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ND

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Enroll

Engage

Complete

Submit

Claim

Display

38

people

27

2

5

badges

5

?

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educational development

(vs. faculty development)

better fits the multiple levels (course, program, institutional) audiences (staff, faculty, & admin) Involved in the work we do

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Clark, G. Chris, Ambrose, G. Alex, Mettetal, Gwynn , Sullivan, Robin, Pedersen, David (2016) “Digital badges and educational development” Professional & Organizational Development (POD) Annual Conference. Link to full slides: http://learning.nd.edu/podbadgeinfo/resources.html

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http://eportfolio.nd.edu/directory/badge-directory

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Campus Technology Innovator Award Announcement. "Pairing E-Portfolios With Badges To Document Informal Learning" (2015)

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Ambrose, G. Alex, Anthony, Elizabeth, & Clark, G. Chris (2016) “Digital Badging in the MOOC Space” Educause Review.