Informal Credentials or Digital Badges

The Digital Scholarship Commons (DSC) awards digital badges, or informal credentialing, for the successful completion of this workshop. We award badges as an informal credential in order to help workshop participants, who wish to, make public the fact that they have developed still in effectively and ethically using Generative AI tools for student research.

DSC electronic badges are cryptographically signed and have the recipient’s email address embedded in the signing so that it cannot be used by anyone else. Also embedded in the badge is a link to the learning objectives for the workshop so that employers or anyone who sees the badge can determine what was done to earn the badge.

DSC badges are awarded at the request of workshop participants after a DSC staff member has verified that they have successfully completed one or more of the workshop’s hands-on workshop activities. You can see a list of all the badges offered by the DSC on our Badgr page.

Earn an Informal Credential or Badge for Generative AI for Student Research

If you’d like to earn a DSC badge for this workshop, please email the following to: dscommons@uvic.ca

  1. Screenshot or photo of the prompt and GenAI response for a topic you know a lot about including at least one follow-up prompt to refine your query (activity 1).
  2. Screenshot or photo of the prompt and GenAI response for the image you created using your own prompt (activity 1).
  3. In one or two sentences describe the key ethical and privacy considerations when deciding whether or not it would be appropriate to GenAI tools in academic work.
  4. Copy and paste the citation in your style guide of choice (e.g. APA, Chicago, IEEE, etc.) for either the GenAI image or text-based GenAI output you are submitting for the badge (activity 4).
  5. In one or two sentences, please provide an overview of UVic’s policy on using GenAI for academic research or assignments (activity 5).

Learn how you can share your DSC Badge

To learn more about DSC badges and how you can share them on your LinkedIn profile, personal website, or resume, check our DSC Badges webpage.

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