I recently wrote a blog post for an outside ag tech project that I work on with Virginia Tech. The project has paired a cohort of Virginia Community College System (VCCS) Ag faculty with Virginia Tech Ag faculty to focus on instructional design that is aimed at helping students gain (and acknowledge the gain of) greater workforce skills.
One design that has prompted a bridge between out-of-school and formal learning is badging to help students reflect on the experiences that they have had outside of class so that the course materials feel more relevant. One VCCS faculty member aptly named this practice of building gamification in as “jobification”. I thought this might be of interest to some of my CCE colleagues. The idea of instructional designs that bridge learning environments is what my own research focus is on.
You can find the blog post here: https://awt4collaborativeleadership.blogspot.com/2023/10/gamification-or-jobification-applying_18.html
We are currently working on a journal publication to describe more of the documentation that went into this component of the project. Stay tuned :).
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