The paper presents how the concept and technology of Open Badges are applied in the GRASS project for acknowledging, grading, awarding and recognizing learners' efforts and achievements in developing their soft skills (like self-regulation, leadership, collaboration, skilled communication, problem solving and innovation). Specifically, the paper describes a 4-phase model, called SAGRADA that wa...

During recent years, the addition of game mechanics to non-game services has gained a relatively large amount of attention. Popular discussion connects ‘gamification’ to successful marketing and increased profitability through higher customer engagement, however there is a dearth of empirical studies that confirm such expectations. This paper reports the results of a field experiment, gamifying...

BACKGROUND The effects of spinal implants on dose distribution have been studied for conformal treatment plans. However, the dosimetric impact of spinal implants in stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) treatments has not been studied in spatial orientation. In this study we evaluated the effect of spinal implants placed in sawbone vertebra models implanted as in vivo instrumentations. METHOD...

Neutron individual monitoring is considerably less established than photon individual monitoring. The main difficulty is the impossibility to find a detector that covers the large occupational neutron energy range. All commercial individual monitors have strong energy dependence. Another difficulty is to calibrate an individual neutron monitor in the ISO 21909 established energy operational ran...

In this paper, we investigate how a digital badging system was used as part of an informal, not-for-credit professional development project. Teacher Learning Journeys was designed for personalized science learning for educators in K-12 schools, museums, universities, and teaching colleges through employing two levels of micro-credentials: lower achievement digital stamps and higher achievement ...

Smooth patient flow through outpatient clinics promotes timely, effective, and safe care while delays and bottlenecks might lower ratings of patient and provider satisfaction, increasing the risk for errors that may affect patient outcomes. However, no studies have been undertaken to analyze how human interactions affect clinic efficiency and quality of care. The goal of our project is to inves...

Purpose Online travel reviews platforms have become innovative information systems due to the incorporation of sophisticated gamification elements such as visually appealing badges. This study aims analyze three features review after leveling up a badge: length (number words), sentiment scoring and period between two successive days until next is written). Design/methodology/approach A total 77...