[p2pu-webcraft] Using OSQA for badges

[Stian Håklev]

Hi Parag,

thanks, I think these are very useful ideas.

I don't think we meant to confine badges to only OSQA, indeed in the new
platform, whose development is now really gathering steam, I am guessing
that we will try to build this in more directly. Part of the reason for OSQA
was to get started quickly, and gain some experience, without having to wait
for custom-built technology.

Your idea of splitting up large competency-based badges in smaller chunks
for reviewers is also interesting.

Stian

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 23:46, Parag Shah <adaptives at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have been thinking about badges and the environment which can support
> badges for learners.
>
> I guess OSQA is a natural choice because it suppports QA type forums and
> badges. However, I had a few thoughts which I feel might be important as we
> go ahead.
>
> 1. Context of community badges.
> Along with competency badges, we might also support other badges, such as
> 'peer helper', 'consistent learner', etc. Most likely these badges would be
> in the context of a course. So if someone gets a 'peer helper' badge in the
> Javascript course, it might be a good feature if we could reflect this,
> because that person may not have been a 'peer helper' in another course. It
> may also be a nice idea to reflect proof of the work along with a badge. It
> will be a bit cumbersome to have all this information in a coherent and
> clutter-less way, in OSQA.
>
> 2. Voting for challenge parts.
> Right now our notion of voting for a challenge submission, is to evaluate
> the entire work of a candidate. However, for slightly large challenges, it
> may be a deterant, for a reviewer to spend 3 hours reviewing a challenge.
> However, they would be happy to review certain parts of a challenge based on
> their expertise and time available. Not sure how well OSQA will support
> that.
>
> I don't mean to say that OSQA is a bad choice. Rather just trying to get a
> discussion going on where we might get into bottlenecks with OSQA, and if we
> should consider some alternatives or customize OSQA.
>
> --
> Thanks & Regards
> Parag Shah
> http://blog.adaptivesoftware.biz
>
>
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