Digital Badge Information
Currently Available Badges
Teaching at the Mount Course Completion
Teaching @ the Mount is an online, self-paced course that provokes faculty to consider ideas in pedagogy in higher education, understand resources to help support the students, and build a teaching philosophy.
Workshop Leader
Led a faculty development program or workshop since 8/2019. There is no limit to how many of these badges you can earn.
Let’s Talk Teaching
Let's Talk Teaching a way for faculty to learn from each other by taking turns observing each other and talking! There is no limit to how many of these badges you can earn.
Flip the Classroom!
Mount Teaching Summer Institute in 2020 is offering a course on Flipping the Classroom. Approximately 10 hours of work.
Online Teaching Certified
This badge is earned upon successful completion of OL5000: Preparation for Teaching Online. This four-week, asynchronous, instructional design expert-facilitated workshop is designed to prepare MSMC faculty for teaching online and/or hybrid classes.
15 hours
Successful completion of 15 hours logged faculty development at the Mount since 8/2019.
30 hours
Successful completion of 30 hours logged faculty development at the Mount since 8/2019.
50 hours
Successful completion of 50 hours logged in faculty development at the Mount since 8/2019.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I have to do this?
Digital badges for faculty development are not required, but rather a way to showcase faculty learning/development.
What are digital badges?
A digital badge is an indicator of accomplishment or skill that can be displayed, accessed, and verified online. These badges are able to be displayed on your e-portfolio and personal webpages, in addition to sites like LinkedIn. Think Scouts, but….high tech :)
How do I do this?
We are using Badgr to issue the badges. https://support.badgr.com/portal/kb/articles/using-the-badgr-backpack
Basically as you earn them, they go into your “backpack” and then you can share them.
See file below for details on how to do this.
Can I create a badge from my division/office/program?
Of course! Just talk to Johnna Touma, Yasmine Kalkstein, or Chuck Lynch.
How do I get them?
Digital Learning & Instructional Design or VPAA Office will award them upon completion of criteria. If you didn’t get something you should have, just contact us!
What other digital badges might be interesting to me besides the ones created at the Mount?
The “Digital Promise” website is linked directly with Badgr. Other faculty learning available here: https://microcredentials.digitalpromise.org/explore
Instructions on How to See and Share Badges
Badgr.com Instructions.docx