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Exploration of Learning Badges and Self-directing Learning in a Seamless Mobile Learning Project

Students use SamEx to capture media such as pictures, video clips and audio recordings and share them with their peers through discussions. In this paper we report on our experience using the application throughout a 1-year period with a special emphasis on self- directed learning and badges. We discuss the role of badges as an external motivational tool enhancing learning, rather than competition among students. Secondly, we examine how tools such as SamEx support self-directedness in one class and how it correlates with students’ exam results. The paper concludes that platforms such as SamEx have the potential to nurture self-directed learning and that badges can motivate students to learn meaningfully when the teachers provide the suitable learning contexts.

Mobile Learning; Badges for Learning; Informal Learning

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