OER Commons Badges - Remix

What are Badges

Badges are a new tool on OER Commons. Open Education Resource (OER) Contributors earn Badges by Evaluating, Authoring, and Remixing OER on the Commons.  OER Badges indicate experience and expertise in OER creation and evaluation.

When you use tools like Open Author,  Achieve OER Quality Rubric, and EQuIP Rubric to create, evaluate, or remix OER on the Commons, you earn points. Your points are stored and displayed under the User Stats section on your Profile page. Once you reach the appropriate number of points for an individual skill, a badge will appear under your name on your profile. 

Earning points and displaying badges is a way to acknowledge your own growth as an OER contributor, as well as a way for you to recognize and connect with other OER contributors.  When you see a user with a Superior Remix Badge,  you can be sure that user is an practiced remixer, with particular experience in personalizing and localizing learning material.

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OERC Evaluator Badge

Points toward the OER Evaluator Badge are earned by evaluating resources on OER Commons.

When you use the Achieve OER Quality Rubric or EQuiP to evaluate resources, you receive Evaluator points.  Points are earned when an evaluation is saved on either rubric.

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There are three levels of OER Evaluator status, and each requires 100 Points:

• OER Evaluator - 100
• Super Evaluator - 200
• Expert Evaluator - 300

Points

You can earn points on each of the seven Rubrics of the Achieve OER Quality Rubric and on the EQuIP Rubric by Aligning to Common Core (3 points), selecting a Numeric Rating (2 points), and by leaving Comments (5 points per comment). For scoring purposes, selecting  “NA/ Does not apply” on a rubric qualifies as a numeric rating. 

• Identify Degree of Alignment = 3 points
• Select a numeric rating = 2 points
• Leave a comment = 5 points
  
  
  

Example

Example one: Monique

Monique is a middle school language arts teacher. She is looking for high quality reading and writing OER for her students and her teaching team. When she finds resources that are interesting, she offers a numeric assessment and makes a comment for herself and others.

Assessment II	Action	Points
Rubric I	Identifies degree of alignment (3)  Numeric assessment (2) Makes a comment (5)	10
Rubric II	Numeric assessment (2)Makes a comment (5)	7
Rubric III	Numeric assessment (2)Makes a comment (5)	7
Rubric IV	Numeric assessment (2)Makes a comment (5)	7
Rubric V	Numeric assessment (2)Makes a comment (5)	7
Rubric VI	Numeric assessment (2)Makes a comment (5)	7
Rubric VII	Numeric assessment (2)Makes a comment (5)	7
Total for assessment		52
User’s cumulative Evaluator points		104

OERC Evaluator Badge

Points toward the OER Evaluator Badge are earned by evaluating resources on OER Commons.

When you use the Achieve OER Quality Rubric or EQuiP to evaluate resources, you receive Evaluator points.  Points are earned when an evaluation is saved on either rubric.

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There are three levels of OER Evaluator status, and each requires 100 Points:

• OER Evaluator - 100
• Super Evaluator - 200
• Expert Evaluator - 300

Points

You can earn points on each of the seven Rubrics of the Achieve OER Quality Rubric and on the EQuIP Rubric by Aligning to Common Core (3 points), selecting a Numeric Rating (2 points), and by leaving Comments (5 points per comment). For scoring purposes, selecting  “NA/ Does not apply” on a rubric qualifies as a numeric rating. 

• Identify Degree of Alignment = 3 points
• Select a numeric rating = 2 points
• Leave a comment = 5 points
  
  
  

Example

Example one: Monique

Monique is a middle school language arts teacher. She is looking for high quality reading and writing OER for her students and her teaching team. When she finds resources that are interesting, she offers a numeric assessment and makes a comment for herself and others.

Assessment I	Action	Points
Rubric I	Identifies degree of alignment (3) Numeric assessment (2) Makes a comment (5)	10
Rubric II	Numeric assessment (2) Makes a comment (5)	7
Rubric III	Numeric assessment (2) Makes a comment (5)	7
Rubric IV	Numeric assessment (2) Makes a comment (5)	7
Rubric V	Numeric assessment (2) Makes a comment (5)	7
Rubric VI	Numeric assessment (2) Makes a comment (5)	7
Rubric VII	Numeric assessment (2) Makes a comment (5)	7
Total points for Assessment		52
User's Evaluator points		52

Assessment II	Action	Points
Rubric I	Identifies degree of alignment (3)  Numeric assessment (2) Makes a comment (5)	10
Rubric II	Numeric assessment (2)Makes a comment (5)	7
Rubric III	Numeric assessment (2)Makes a comment (5)	7
Rubric IV	Numeric assessment (2)Makes a comment (5)	7
Rubric V	Numeric assessment (2)Makes a comment (5)	7
Rubric VI	Numeric assessment (2)Makes a comment (5)	7
Rubric VII	Numeric assessment (2)Makes a comment (5)	7
Total for assessment		52
User’s cumulative Evaluator points		104

OERC Remix Badge

Points toward the OERC Remix Badge are earned as you remix an OA Resource and personalize it for your teaching and learning context.

When you Remix another author’s resource, you earn 10 points.  If another OER Contributor evaluates your resource, and you receive an average score of 2 or more on the Acheive or EQuIP tool, you receive an additional 10 points. If another author remixes your Remix, you receive 5 extra Remix points.

There are three levels of OER Remixer status, each requires 100 points. 

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• OER Remixer - 100
• Super Remixer - 200
• Expert Remixer - 300

Points:

• Publish a Remix in OA: 10 points
• Your OA Remix receives a 2 or higher assessment: 10 points
• Your OA Remix gets remixed: 5 points

Example

Miriam is a middle school language arts teacher. She specializes in working with ESL students. When she finds a resource that her students would like, she often remixes it, adapting it specifically to meet the needs of her students. Through adapting resources, Miriam not only creates quality resources for her students, but she contributes to the diversity of open education resources (OER) on the Commons. 

Resource I	Action	Points
	Remix is published	10
	Remix receives a 2.6 assessment	10
	Remix receives a 2.8 assessment	10
	Remix receives a 2.4 assessment	10
User's points for this resource		40
User's Remix points		40

Resource II	Action	Points
	Remix is Published	10
	Remix receives a 2.2 assessment	10
	Remix receives a 2.8 assessment	10
	Remix receives a 2.8 assessment	10
	Remix receives a 2.6 assessment	10
	Remix receives a 2.8 assessment	10
	Remix is remixed	5
User's points for this remix		65
User's cumulative Remix points		105

Miriam receives an OERC Remixer badge. 

Group Badges

Some organizations and State Groups have created their own, specialize criteria for Badges. Groups develop their own badges by identifying a set of skills which they would like their group members to develop, or a particular certification they could like their participants to achieve. Then they collaborated with the ISKME team at OER Commons to develop an assessment and certification system for tracking progress toward those badges. 

We have created a set of testing criteria based on the States desired qualifications. Teachers and curriculum builders from those states are invited to develop their skills by evaluating predetermined resources and comparing their rubrics with the state's certified assessment key.

Because each Organization's badging system is uniquely devloped, only members of the participating group have access to the certification portal. 

If your organization is interested in developing a specialized badging system on OER Commons, contact us info@oercommons.org.