Open badges in online learning environments: Peer feedback and formative assessment as an engagement intervention for promoting agency

Stylianos Hatzipanagos, Jillianne Code

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Abstract

Student engagement is both a ubiquitous and broadly defined term in education. Engagement is the 'conceptual glue' that connects student agency, social influences, organizational structures, and institutional culture. Of particular interest to the work presented in this paper, is how engagement and agency are interrelated, and the role of this relationship in online learning - particularly in formative assessment and peer feedback. This paper reports on the use of digital badges to support student learning and promote engagement in higher education. The purpose of this open badges intervention was to explore whether open badges can support learning in online environments through peer feedback. Findings indicate that participants demonstrated engagement attributes that encompass affective, behavioural and cognitive indicators, however, the results also showed that the learners' motivation for achieving the badges was opposite of what we expected in our projections.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)127-142
Number of pages16
JournalJournal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia
Volume25
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - 2016

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