概要
This presentation will examine the use of the digital badges to support and encourage the use of English by students inside and outside the classroom, and thus transform a school or university into an "English-village".
An English-village is an English-speaking community composed mainly of non-native English speakers who wish to improve their English communicative competence. The community is situated around a geographical location in the real world, such as a school or university campus.
Some institutions, such as Kinki University and Osaka Jogakuin University, have implemented versions of the English-village concept, but generally these have been done without online support, and none so far has incorporated Mozilla’s recently developed implementation of digital badges, known as "open-badges" ( (openbadges.org) ), for recognizing and recording learning achievements.
This presentation will look at examples of the use of digital badges in education, and then describe some examples of English-villages. After briefly examining the digital badge functionality of current learning management systems (LMS), the presenter will then illustrate how an online support system for an English-village might look and behave.
Finally the presenter will demonstrate a proof-of-concept online course for tracking achievements in English-speaking situations. It has access and completion conditions on activities to (1) ensure sequential access through the course content, (2) denote which activities have been completed, and (3) award digital badges automatically when the entire course is completed.