Session Format
Presentation Session (20 minutes)
Location
Room 2911
Abstract for the conference program
Over the past year, faculty of the College of Education at Georgia Southern University in partnership with the First District RESA, several South Georgia school systems and eCOM of Scotland, have initiated a digital badging project that targets the professional development needs of Georgia teachers. The intent of the project is to provide opportunities for teacher learning across the 10 Teacher Assessment on Performance Standards (TAPS) of the Georgia Teacher Keys Effectiveness System (TKES). The project features credentialing and instructional innovations linked to the collection and use of “metadata”. Metadata provide details about learner accomplishments and learning pathways at a level of specificity not possibly revealed through diplomas, course grades, certificates or professional learning units (PLUs). The objective of the session is to provide participants will information about the Georgia Southern digital badging project and highlight the potential for badging to change STEM credentialing and instruction in both K-12 and higher education.
Proposal Track
Non-research Project
Start Date
3-4-2016 11:30 AM
End Date
3-4-2016 11:50 AM
Recommended Citation
Thomas Koballa, "Digital Badges, Bringing About Changes to STEM Credentialing and Instruction" (March 4, 2016). Georgia Scholarship of STEM Teaching & Learning Conference. Paper 9.
source:http://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/stem/2016/2016/9
Digital Badges, Bringing About Changes to STEM Credentialing and Instruction
Room 2911
Over the past year, faculty of the College of Education at Georgia Southern University in partnership with the First District RESA, several South Georgia school systems and eCOM of Scotland, have initiated a digital badging project that targets the professional development needs of Georgia teachers. The intent of the project is to provide opportunities for teacher learning across the 10 Teacher Assessment on Performance Standards (TAPS) of the Georgia Teacher Keys Effectiveness System (TKES). The project features credentialing and instructional innovations linked to the collection and use of “metadata”. Metadata provide details about learner accomplishments and learning pathways at a level of specificity not possibly revealed through diplomas, course grades, certificates or professional learning units (PLUs). The objective of the session is to provide participants will information about the Georgia Southern digital badging project and highlight the potential for badging to change STEM credentialing and instruction in both K-12 and higher education.
