Introduction

Digital badging may address the need to document skills developed in the co-curriculum. This study examined students' perceptions of the value, motivating factors, and challenges for participating in digital badging.

Methods

An online survey was emailed to first, second, and third year pharmacy students at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Year in school, pharmacy grade point average, organizational membership, and level of organization leadership was obtained. The survey used a five-point Likert rating and consisted of: nine perceived values categorized as value for recognition, motivation for participation, and learning; eleven motivating factors including intrinsic and extrinsic; and seven challenges for pursuing a digital badge. Overall likelihood to pursue a digital badge, motivating factors to pursue a digital badge, and top potential badge options were also queried. Appropriate statistical tests were performed to determine associations with variables and likelihood to pursue a digital badge.

Results

A total of 116 usable responses were received (48.9% response rate). A majority indicated that digital badges had perceived value for all three categories queried. Both extrinsic and intrinsic motivators were important in predicting likelihood to pursue a digital badge. The influence of challenges did not explain the variations in likelihood to pursue a digital badge. Leadership and community engagement were the top two desired digital badges.

Conclusions

Survey data provided insights for determining best practices for designing a digital badge to differentiate skills among students. Further research and evaluation of an implemented digital badge is necessary for defining best practices in digital badging.

中文翻译：

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探索药学学生对数字徽章的兴趣

介绍

数字徽章可以满足记录辅助课程中开发的技能的需要。本研究调查了学生对参与数字徽章的价值、激励因素和挑战的看法。

方法

一项在线调查已通过电子邮件发送给南伊利诺伊大学爱德华兹维尔分校的一年级、二年级和三年级药学学生。获得了在校年份、药学平均绩点、组织成员资格和组织领导水平。该调查使用了李克特五点评级，包括： 九个感知价值，分为认可价值、参与动机和学习价值；包括内在和外在在内的十一个激励因素；以及追求数字徽章的七个挑战。还询问了追求数字徽章的总体可能性、追求数字徽章的激励因素以及最有可能的徽章选项。进行了适当的统计测试以确定与变量的关联以及追求数字徽章的可能性。

结果

共收到 116 份可用回复（回复率为 48.9%）。大多数人表示，对于所有三个查询类别，数字徽章都具有感知价值。外在和内在动机对于预测追求数字徽章的可能性都很重要。挑战的影响并不能解释追求数字徽章的可能性的变化。领导力和社区参与是最受欢迎的两个数字徽章。

结论

调查数据为确定设计数字徽章以区分学生技能的最佳实践提供了见解。进一步研究和评估实施的数字徽章对于定义数字徽章的最佳实践是必要的。