Teaching with Digital Badges: Best Practices for Libraries: Innovations in Information Literacy Kelsey O'Brien Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Teaching with Digital Badges

Best Practices for Libraries

Teaching with Digital Badges

Best Practices for Libraries

Description

Digital Badges are gaining traction in the education landscape, and librarians have been some of the leading pioneers at the forefront of this exciting new frontier. This book provides examples of how badges are being used to enhance and invigorate the teaching and assessment of information literacy. Chapters provide inspiration for teaching librarians interested in:

Providing an engaging experience for their students Gaining insight into this growing innovative technology trendDiscovering how librarians are using badges to enhance their teachingForming meaningful collaborations with faculty and teachersDeveloping knowledge about badge system design and badging platformsLearning how badges can motivate, support, and celebrate learning achievementsLaunching a badging project

The book is divided into two sections. The first section explores the environment in which badges are being developed, in particular situating them within the current educational setting, and provides guidelines on how best to create a badging program. The second section details contributing authors’ firsthand experiences creating, implementing, and refining digital badges and digital badging systems, in some cases collaborating with teachers and faculty. These chapters provide a wealth of ideas about using digital badges in academic and school libraries to engage and motivate students.

List of Figures and Tables
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements

Part I: The Badging Environment
Chapter 1: Overview of Micro-Credentialing
Cinthya Ippoliti
Chapter 2: Forces of Change for Higher Education: Opening Gates for Digital Badging
Trudi E. Jacobson
Chapter 3: Addressing Stakeholder Needs to Establish Meaningful Digital Badging in Higher Education
Laureen P. Cantwell and Kristyn K. Rose
Chapter 4: Digital Badges in Schools
Amanda Rose Fuller
Chapter 5: Badges Can Do That: Ideas for Using Badges to Enhance Information Literacy Instruction
Allison Hosier
Chapter 6: Badging Best Practices
Kelsey L. O’Brien

Part II: Badging and Information Literacy: Case Studies
Chapter 7: Pollak Library Spark Tutorials
J. Lindsay O’Neill
Chapter 8: Competency-Based Education, Badging, and the Library
Michael Fosmire and Amy S. Van Epps
Chapter 9: Hot Neoliberal Commodities or Tools for Empowerment? A Badges Case Study and Conversation
Emily Ford, Jost Lottes, Betty Izumi, and Dawn Richardson
Chapter 10: Badging and Workplace Information Literacy: Helping Students Prepare for the Professional World
Megan Blauvelt Heuer
Chapter 11: Failing Better: Scaffolding Learning with the Metaliteracy Badging System
Kelsey L. O’Brien

About the Editors and Contributors
Index

Product details

Published	15 Sep 2018
Format	Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition	1st
Extent	246
ISBN	9781538104187
Imprint	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations	7 b/w photos; 13 tables; 1 textbox
Series	Innovations in Information Literacy
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

This is an excellent resource for library communities. It provides great ideas for those who want to start a badging program. For those who have started, the case studies and research help to bolster and round out our experiences.

Emily Rimland, Penn State University Libraries
A book from the trenches by authors implementing badges into complex settings. Whether readers are just starting their journey with badges or are experienced practitioners looking for new ideas, this book has something for everyone.

Lucas Blair, Co-founder Little Bird Games
Digital badges are a natural fit for libraries and information literacy skills, but implementation still needs design principles that fit with the project goals and stakeholder needs. The perspectives, recommendations, and informative case studies in this book show digital badges' potential as connectors and guide implementers to important considerations.

Nate Otto, Co-Author of the Open Badges Specification & Director, Badgr