Throughout March and April 2014, the Learning Transformations Unit at Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne, Australia) developed and delivered the Carpe Diem MOOC (CD MOOC) via the Blackboard CourseSites platform (coursesites.com). The CD MOOC, which attracted 1426 registrations, provided participants with the opportunity to learn about the Carpe Diem learning design process and to apply it to their own educational practice. We discuss the challenges and opportunities faced by the CD MOOC designers and moderators in offering participants the opportunity to obtain digital badges for recognition and reward of their participation and completion of tasks in the CD MOOC. Here we present findings of research into the impact of badges on the completion of learning tasks and the motivation of participants. We demonstrate that many of the CD MOOC participants, who were generally well-educated and mature professionals, were motivated by digital badges – some through to course completion.
1. Carpe Diem MOOC 10th March – 17th April
Badges in the Carpe Diem
MOOC
Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education 2014
Dr. Kulari Lokuge Dona
Prof. Janet Gregory
Prof. Gilly Salmon
Dr. Ekaterina Pechenkina
Swinburne University of Technology,
Australia
12. Numbering and pacing & sequencing
Title
Purpose
Brief summary of overall task
Spark
Individual contribution
Dialogue begins
E-moderator intervention
Schedule & Time
Next
Template for Creating E-tivities
13. Template for Reality Checking
• First Impression
• How easy to navigate
• Is it clear what you are supposed to do?
Describe any issues.
• List two features of the e-tivity you found
enjoyable or effective.
• How would you improve the e-tivity?
• Overall Comments
17. Findings
Out of 1029 participants who commenced the CD MOOC
Earned the first badge Earned all the badges
Earned Mozilla
Open Badge
30.7% 17% 17%
18. Badge Completion Rates
Look and Feel
Storyboard
Create an e-tivity
Reality Checker
314
209
189
181
183
Action Plan
Mozilla Open Badge
181
19. Carpe Diem MOOC:
Completion Rates
No. of Participants registered
1426
No. of participants started
1029
No. of Participants – earned all the badges
181 (17.3%)
No. of participants accessing course at the end
335 (23%)
20. Badges: Quotes from survey
“[A badge] keeps you on track to actually
complete things and keeps you a bit more
committed and motivated.”
21. Badges: Quotes from survey
“I felt the badges were a good method to
push me into doing what was needed to
study the subject matter.”
22. Badges: Quotes from survey
“I think we all have a competitive streak
in us and that we want to be rewarded is
a basic psychological need. There is a
satisfaction in the knowledge that you are
actually doing well and that’s a
confirmation of that.”
24. Survey results:
“Would you use badges in your
practice?”
Response %
Yes 72.4
No 13.8
Answer not given 6.9
25. References
Carpe Diem is based on original research by Prof Gilly Salmon at the
Universities Glasgow Caledonian, Bournemouth and Anglia Ruskin.
It was developed further at the Universities of Leicester, Southern
Queensland, Northampton and Swinburne University of
Technology.
See E-tivities 2nd Edition 2013 www.e-tivities.com Chapter 5 gives
full details of Carpe Diem.
Web site for Carpe Diem, handbook and papers :
www.gillysalmon.com/carpe-diem
http://www.scoop.it/t/moocs-by-learning-transformations/
Editor's Notes
Carpe Diem is a learning design methodology, based on 6 stages and normally run as a collaborative design workshop over 1.5 days . It’s been researched and developed over 14 years, originally by Professor Gilly Salmon but since in universities across the world including at Swinburne University of Technology. If you’d like to know more about the Carpe Diem please look at the website. Because Carpe Diem is so intrinsic to our work in the Learning Transformations Unit at Swinburne, we felt is was a most suitable topic to disseminate further through a MOOC.
The Carpe Diem process comprises six stages: Write a blueprint; Make a storyboard; Build a prototype online; Check reality; Review and adjust; and Planning your next steps (Salmon and Wright 2014).
“Carpe Diem is a learning design methodology, based on 6 stages and normally run as a collaborative design workshop over 1.5 days . It’s been researched and developed over 14 years, originally by Professor Gilly Salmon but since in universities across the world including at Swinburne University of Technology. If you’d like to know more about the Carpe diem please look at the web site. Because Carpe Diem is so intrinsic to our work in the Learning Transformations Unit at Swinburne, we felt it was a most suitable topic to disseminate further through a MOOC. “
The CD MOOC was designed to encourage online participation, collaboration, information sharing, knowledge creation and application by participants. A key focus of CD MOOC was to encourage participants to complete online activities and tasks. Participants were awarded digital badges upon completion of certain tasks.
In total 1426 people registered for the CD MOOC and 1022 commenced in March 2014. Out of total number, 67% were female, the rest were male.