Badge of Honour? An Exploration of the Use of Digital Badges to Support a Partnership Approach to Faculty Development

Autor/inn/en	Risquez, Angelica; Cassidy, Dara; O'Suilleabhain, Gearoid
Titel	Badge of Honour? An Exploration of the Use of Digital Badges to Support a Partnership Approach to Faculty Development
Quelle	In: Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 36 (2020) 5, S.18-29 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Cassidy, Dara) ORCID (O'Suilleabhain, Gearoid)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1449-5554
Schlagwörter	Recognition (Achievement); Faculty Development; Foreign Countries; Institutional Cooperation; College Faculty; Teacher Motivation; Educational Policy; Electronic Learning; Web Based Instruction; Teacher Attitudes; Ireland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Anerkennung; Ausland; Institute; Co-operation; Cooperation; Institut; Kooperation; Fakultät; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Web Based Training; Lehrerverhalten; Irland
Abstract	This article describes a professional development initiative facilitated through a transformational partnership model. In this context, we discuss our experience of piloting an online continuing professional development course in the area of online teaching, which offered a digital badge for successful participants. The course was the result of a partnership between three Irish higher education institutions and a national agency that had initiated a nation-wide scheme to create and disseminate a range of open access collaborative professional development courses to promote the professionalisation of teaching and learning, with a specific digital badge being available for each course. We investigated the interplay between the digital badge issued for the course we piloted, and other potential intrinsic and extrinsic motivators. Digital badges appear to be a weak motivating factor in initial enrolment and engagement, although for some participants, they did motivate continued engagement and completion. We discuss implications in relation to internal and external drivers and motivations around professional development. We also offer reflections on the larger context in which badges might be used or valued by course participants in their professional environments. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. Ascilite Secretariat, P.O. Box 44, Figtree, NSW, Australia. Tel: +61-8-9367-1133; e-mail: info@ascilite.org.au; Web site: https://ajet.org.au/index.php/AJET
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01