Digital Badges in Libraries: Skill-based Instruction, Code-shifting, and Collaboration
- Conference Year
- Online Northwest 2014
- Session
- 1
- Type
- Breakout Session
- Presenters
- Emily Ford, Portland State University
- Nicholas Schiller, Washington State University Vancouver
- Dawn Richardson, Portland State University
- Abstract
Digital badges present librarians with new ways of engaging with patrons including recognizing patron achievement and improved communication. This session will provide an overview of digital badges including an explanation of underlying pedagogical aims--and will address badging as “code-shifting” or using different communication methods for different audiences. Finally, it will present a major collaboration between Portland State University Library and disciplinary faculty to integrate badges in undergraduate courses, providing librarian and disciplinary faculty perspectives.
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