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One inspiration for rangoli badges is the idea that you would be giving recognition and acknowledgement for an individuals persistence of staying with a particular path of learning rather than trying to assess whether or not they have gained new skills or competencies within a given domain or topic. | One inspiration for rangoli badges is the idea that you would be giving recognition and acknowledgement for an individuals persistence of staying with a particular path of learning rather than trying to assess whether or not they have gained new skills or competencies within a given domain or topic. | ||
=== Various Ways of Generating Geometrical Patterns === | |||
Rangoli is just one of the interesting geometrical patterns that we can consider. The idea can be extended to any of the programmable patterns that provide us with possibilities of starting with something simple and keep on extending the pattern by modifying some of the parameters. Some of the ideas are given below. | |||
One idea is to begin with something simple, say a circle, a line, or a triangle. This can be the invitation badge the learners get as soon as they join. As they continue to demonstrate their newly learned skills, the badge transforms from simple to complex. For example, a line can begin to evolve into any of the fractal structures. Since different learners learn differently, choosing a non-linear forms for badges can be a better idea. The number of iterations of the generating program can provide an index of achievement. | |||
An illustration of the above idea can be seen from [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Spirograph.html]. As this example shows how several starting points can be used for different courses an organisation offers, and generate more complex patterns. By using different parameters, such as number of constructions made, number of activities participated, number of presentations, etc. the system can generate patterns and present them as badges to the learner, which eventually get stuck on the badgepack, if not a backpack. | |||
==Road Maps as Badges== | |||
== Ribbon bars == | == Ribbon bars == | ||