How we have implemented digital badges into our Teaching Online Certification workshops.

1. Can Digital Badges Increase
Capacity for Teaching Online?
Bill Knapp
Dean of Learning Technologies
Lakeland Community College
bknapp@lakelandcc.edu
@itbill on Twitter

2. Lakeland Learning Technologies
Lakeland Community College
Kirtland, Ohio
http://www.lakelandcc.edu/lt/
Lakeland Community College

3. The Problem is Capacity

4. Growth in Distance Learning
0
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
12000
fall 2005 fall 2006 fall 2007 fall 2008 fall 2009 fall 2010 fall 2011 fall 2012 fall 2013
total count
online count

5. OBR Academic Program Review
guidelines and procedures
the expectation that…
faculty members who teach online courses must
be prepared for teaching in an online
environment.

6. Top Challenges for DL Administrators
1. Engaging faculty in development of online pedagogy
2. Evaluation of faculty
3. Training
4. Workload issues
5. Compensation
6. Technical support
7. Intellectual property / ownership issues
8. Recruitment
9. Buy-in to e-learning
- ITC Distance Ed Survey 2013

7. Who Teaches Online?

8. Quality Assurance

9. Instructional Design Support

10. • Develop Teaching Online Certification
• Peer-to-peer Training Options
• Recognize accomplishments with Digital Badges
• Integrate Quality Matters Standards
Our Solution

11. Peer-to-Peer Training

12. Teaching with Technology Institute
• Two faculty on release to Center for Learning
Innovation (CLI) for one year
• Team approach to developing curriculum for
Teaching Online Workshop Series
• Competency-based training format

13. Authentic Faculty Online Experience

14. Competency-based Model
Participants are provided a “sandbox” course
(e-Portfolio) to complete the assignments and
demonstrating the competencies

15. The Curriculum
Four series of three workshops per topic area
▫ Extending your Course with Blackboard Learn
▫ Teaching with Blackboard Learn
▫ Designing the Online Course
▫ Teaching & Learning Online

22. Badges
• Badge systems we considered:
▫ Mozilla Backpack
▫ Open Passport (Purdue University)
▫ Credly

24. Going Forward
• Graduates are awarded a certificate of
completion
• Online self-paced version with captioned video
tutorials
• Graduates may participate as facilitators and are
compensated for their time
• Part-time faculty may also qualify for CEUs and
one time stipend of $250.00

25. Photo Credits
• Too much coffee, Luigi Anzivino, CC-BY-NC-SA
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ilmungo/19804382/
• Computer problems, CollegeDegrees360, CC-BY-SA
http://www.flickr.com/photos/83633410@N07/7658225516/
• integratED Portland 2013, Rachel Wendt-Chaney, CC-BY-NC-SA
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwentechaney/8485729511
• edcampPDX November 2011, Rachel Wendt-Chaney, CC-BY-NC-SA
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwentechaney/6336050259/
• Questions time, Martin Sharman, CC-BY-NC-SA
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharman/5004323423/