1. ALL ABOUT BADGES
HOW THEY WORK AT P2PU
•Background
•Badge Ecosystem
•Testing Our System:
Empirical Research and UX
•Future of badges at P2PU
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2. BACKGROUND
• P2PU: badgemakers
since 2009
• Published a seminal
whitepaper
• Webmaking 101: over
1,000 learners
• Next milestone: Badge-
issuing platform
Vanessa Gennarelli
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3. BADGE ECOSYSTEM
Require 1
•3 types of
badges
Require
evidence of peer vote
project... Skill
•Influenced
Badges Community
Gauge Badges Often used
“how well”
a peer has
Peers assess
on a rubric
for traits
(“Team
by a
gameful
accomplished Player”)
a task
Stealth theory of
Badges
motivation
Awarded
automatically
by the system

4. TESTING OUR SYSTEM:
EMPIRICAL RESEARCH
• Test our system through
research projects
• P2PU Labs
• Research Questions
• Relationship between badges
and participation
• Measure community activity
around “accredited” versus
“user-generated” badges
• How “open” to everyone is
open ed? Vanessa Gennarelli
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5. TESTING OUR SYSTEM: UX
RESEARCH
• Usability
• Badge creation
• Badge review
• Appeal & Learner Satisfaction
• Methods:
• Interviews
• Mental Model research
• Usertesting.com screencast testing
• Pre-launch click tests
• Post-launch A/B testing Vanessa Gennarelli
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6. FUTURE OF BADGES @P2PU
• Finishing up our plan for 3rd iteration of badges
• Looking at lessons learned and listening to
critique
• Deploy our 3.0 in phases
• New badge system
• Assessment in cohorts
• Learner trajectories
Vanessa Gennarelli
@mozzadrella
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