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How (not) to introduce badges to online exercises

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Achievement badges are increasingly used to enhance educational systems and they have been shown to affect student behavior in different ways. However, details on best practices and effective concepts to implement badges from a non-technical point of view are scarce. We implemented badges to our learning management system, used them on a large course and collected feedback from students. Based on our experiences, we present recommendations to other educators that plan on using badges.

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SIGCSE '14: Proceedings of the 45th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
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