What are digital badges?
Digital badges are evidenced-based certification of learning that, like paper-based certificates, provide a record of your achievements. However digital badges offer so much more. Digital badges can link to ePortfolios and appraisals showcasing ongoing professional learning, be displayed over multiple online profiles and social media and can have evidence of learning and artefacts of learning attached.There are many different levels of badges including badges that showcase your active learning and growth through attendance at events, undertaking mentoring or completing in-depth professional learning programmes.
Badges are stored in a digital ‘back-pack’ and individual badges can be displayed across your ePortfolios and online communities. The data, or evidence attached to the badge, is accessible from wherever the badge is displayed.
How to claim a digital badge
- Participate in Educamp Palmy
- Go to http://badges.core-ed.org
- log-in or register for an account
- locate the Educamp Palmy 2016 Badge
- confirm you participated and award yourself the badge
You can add notes to the badge if you want to add a hyperlink to a reflection, tweets or your ePortfolio. To do this, once the badge has been awarded,
- select Manage Badge,
- select the 2016 Educamp Palmy badge
- select Manage Badge,
- select Notes then enter in the details you wish to attach to the badge.
Contact tara.fagan@core-ed.org if you have any questions regarding the badge backpack.
