Use Digital Badges to Promote Positive Student Behaviors

Description Digital badges are visual indicators of the satisfaction of an instructor-defined goal. When the goals are linked to behaviors that promote success, badges can serve as feedback systems to promote those behaviors (e.g., a badge for submitting an assignment early that meets a pre-defined grade threshold supports timeliness without sacrificing quality). Badges are awarded …

Continue reading “Use Digital Badges to Promote Positive Student Behaviors”

Related Tags: , , , , ,

Convert Course Materials into an Instructional Simulation using Gaming Elements

Description In an online course, a frequent criticism is that the PowerPoint presentations are poorly designed and critical supporting information is often missing (with no presenter to fill in the blanks!). On the other hand, instructional simulations combine multimedia elements (i.e. sound, images, video, etc) to represent (simulate) particular aspects of an actual situation (Hays, …

Continue reading “Convert Course Materials into an Instructional Simulation using Gaming Elements”

Related Tags: , , , , , , , ,