This paper describes the design of a digital badge that provides support for learners who participate in blended instructional-design (ID) workshops. The workshops are hosted by Kumamoto University as lifelong learning activities, and their purpose is to introduce a practical method that enhances participants' education and supports them in applying ID in their jobs. We designed the digital badge as a tool that continues to support participants after the workshop has finished. The digital badge constitutes not just a program certification, but also an index of the learning outcomes of the blended workshop, such as online report assignments, and an asynchronous discussion record of forum posts made during the workshop. We confirmed through actual use that the acquired digital badge accumulated learning outcomes that would be useful in the participants' jobs and reflected their skill mastery.
In this paper, we report improvements made and their effect on the design of pre-training preparation in a blended instructional design workshop. Through practical research, the design was refined to include a three-stage question-making activity (QMA) for pre-training preparation. The stages included 1) Submitting a question before the commencement of learning, 2) Working on teaching materials, and 3) Submitting a question based on reflection on pre-training preparation. After verifying the effects, it is suggested that question quality saw an improvement owing to the introduction of the QMA, with some cases becoming more concrete and focused. It was also confirmed that this method can encourage learning motivation by enhancing participants' confidence, satisfaction, and familiarity with learning content.
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