Research

Publications

Articles (Peer Reviewed)

Randall, D. L., & West, R.E. (2020): Who cares about open badges? An examination of principals’ perceptions of the usefulness of teacher open badges in the United States, Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning, DOI: 10.1080/02680513.2020.1752166

Randall, D. L., Farmer, T., & West, R.E. (2019). Effectiveness of undergraduate instructional design assistants in scaling up a teacher education open badge system. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, 19(4). Retrieved from https://citejournal.org/volume-19/issue-4-19/general/effectiveness-of-undergraduate-instructional-design-assistants-in-scaling-a-teacher-education-open-badge-system


Davies, R. S., Randall, D. L., & West, R. E. (2015). Using Open Badges to Certify Practicing Evaluators. The American Journal of Evaluation, 36(2), 151-163. doi: 10.1177/1098214014565505


Randall, D. L., Harrison, J. B., & West, R.E. (2013). Giving credit where credit is due: Designing Open Badges for a technology integration course. TechTrends, 57(6), 88-95. doi: 10.1007/s11528-013-0706-5


Ashton, S. D., Foisy, A. M., Marwedel, R., Popham, J. A., Proctor, K. R., Randall, D. L., Tateishi, I., Thompson, C. A., & Gibbons, A. S. (2011). From Takeoff to Landing: Looking at the Design Process for the Development of NASA Blast at Thanksgiving Point. International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2(1), 56-73. Available at: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/ijdl/article/view/1093


Zaugg, B. H., West, R. E., Tateishi, I., & Randall, D. L. (2011). Mendeley: Creating Communities of Scholarly Inquiry Through Research Collaboration. TechTrends, 55(1), 32-36. doi:10.1007/s11528-011-0467-y


Articles (Non-peer Reviewed)

Randall, D. L. (2015). Book Review – Teaching the iStudent: A Quick Guide to Using Mobile Devices and Social Media in the K-12 Classroom. Educational Technology.


Randall, D. L., Johnson, J. C., West, R.E., & Wiley, D.A. (2013). Teaching, doing and sharing project management: The development of an instructional design project management textbook. Educational Technology, 53(6), 24-28. View PDF


Randall, D.L., Alexander, J.A., Bishop, M., & West, R.E. (2011). The Journal of Learning Sciences, 2001-2010. Educational Technology, 51(5), 47-50.


Books

Wiley, D., Gong, J., Jensen, H., Randall, D., Spring, K., Tonks, D., Woodward, S., & Young, J. (2014). An Open Education Reader. Retrieved from OpenEdReader.org.


Amado, M., Ashton, K., Ashton, S., Bostwick, J., Darnall, R., Nan, V., Nisse, A., Preston, J., Randall, D., & Wiley, D. (2011). Project Management for Instructional Designers. Retrieved from http://idpm.us. The most recent version can be found at pm4id.org.

 

Book Chapters

West, R.E., & Randall, D. L. (2016). The Case for Rigor in Badges. In L. Y. Muilenburg & Z. L. Berge (Eds.), Digital Badges in Education: Trends, Issues, and Cases. New York: Routledge.

Presentations

Peer Reviewed

Randall, D. L., & West, R.E. (2015). Enough with Weak Sauce Badges! Presentation given at Open Ed 2015 in Vancouver, BC.


Randall, D. L., West, R.E., Newby, T., & Haskell, C. (2015). Implementing Open Badges in Three Preservice Teacher Education Programs: Challenges, Lessons, and Opportunities. Panel presentation given at AECT 2015 in Indianapolis, IN.


Randall, D. L., & West, R.E. (2015). Undergrad but Not Under-experienced: Employing Undergraduates as Instructional Design Assistants to Support the Creation and Use of Open Badges. Presentation given at AECT 2015 in Indianapolis, IN.


Randall, D. L., West, R.E., Newby, T., Borup, J., & Haskell, C. (2014). Implementing Open Badges in Four Preservice Teacher Education Programs: Challenges, Lessons, and Opportunities. Panel presentation given at AECT 2014 in Jacksonville, FL.


Wright, C. D., Randall, D. L., & West, R.E. (2014). Using Open Badges to Recognize Soft Skills. Presentation given at AECT 2014 in Jacksonville, FL.


Davies, R. S., Randall, D. L., & West, R. E. (2014). Using Open Badges as a Certification Solution for Evaluators. Presentation given at AEA 2014 in Denver, CO.


Wright, C. D., & Randall, D. L. (2014). Soft Skill Development Using Open Badges. Presentation given at Utah ATD 2014 in West Valley City, UT.


Randall, D. L., Harrison, J. B., & West, R. E. (2013). Using open badges and an open course to enhance and extend learning. Paper presented at OpenEd 2013 in Park City, UT.


Randall, D. L., Harrison, J. B., & West, R. E. (2013). Designing open badges for a technology integration course. Paper presented at AECT 2013 in Anaheim, CA.


Randall, D. L., Sorensen, A. N., & Davies, R.S. (2013). Using video simulations on objectively scored online certification assessments to measure higher-level learning. Paper presented at AECT 2013 in Anaheim, CA.


Harrison, J. B., Randall, D. L., & West, R. E. (2013). Developing TPACK level badges: Design implications. Roundtable presented at AECT 2013 in Anaheim, CA.


Randall, D. L., Johnson, J. C., West, R. E., & Wiley, D. A. (2013). Examining Social Innovation in a Studio Environment. Paper presented at AERA 2013 in San Francisco, CA.


Randall, D.L., Alexander, J.A., Bishop, M., & West, R.E. (2011). Review of the Journal of Learning Sciences. Presented as part of a panel at AECT in Jacksonville, FL.


Randall, D.L., West, R.E., Wright, G, & Tateishi, I. (2011). Designing higher education collaborative innovation experiences. Reflection paper presented at AECT in Jacksonville, FL.


Fonoimoana, M., Randall, D. L., Tateishi, I., & West, R. E. (2010). Can creativity be trained? Roundtable presented at AECT in Anaheim, CA.


West, R. E., Tateishi, I., Randall, D.L., & Wright, G. (2010). Distributed creativity within a community of student instructional designers: Two case studies in higher education. Paper presented at ICLS in Chicago, IL.

 

Invited Presentations

Randall, D. L. (2023). Careers in EdTech. Presentation given virtually to the Teacher Transition group. 

Randall, D. L. (2023). From Design to Product: My Career Path in EdTech. Presentation given virtually to the Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences department at Utah State University in Logan, UT.

Randall, D. L. (2020). Learning Experience Design at Imagine Learning. Presentation given at the Instructional Psychology & Technology department seminar at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT.

Peck, K. L., Randall, D. L. (2016). Microcredentials for Teacher Education, Day 2. Panel presentation at the U.S. Department of Education’s Advancing Educational Technology in Teacher Preparation Summit at The White House, Washington, D.C.

 

Randall, D. L., Peck, K. L. (2016). Microcredentials for Teacher Education, Day 1. Presented at the U.S. Department of Education’s Advancing Educational Technology in Teacher Preparation Summit, Washington, D.C.

 

Randall, D. L. (2014). Assessing Creativity and the Creative Process. Presentation given to an education class at George Mason University via video call.

 

Randall, D. L. (2014). An Introduction to Camtasia. Presentation given at Tech Time Tuesday in Provo, UT.

 

Randall, D. L., & Salisbury, K. (2014). Getting to Know Adobe InDesign. Presentation given at Tech Time Tuesday in Provo, UT.

 

Randall, D. L. (2013). Tech Tips: Making your Life Easier. Presentation given to MPA students at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT.

 

Randall, D. L., Harrison, J. B., & West, R. E. (2013). How to turn your course into a MOOC using Canvas. Presentation given at InstructureCon 2013 in Park City, UT.

 

Randall, D. L. (2012). An Introduction to Open Badges and Massive Open Online Courses. Presentation given to graduate class on Using Social Media in Education at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT.

 

Randall, D. L., & Borup, J. (2012). Using Canvas to create community in online courses. Presentation given at InstructureCon 2012 in Park City, UT.

 

Randall, D. L., Marianno, B. D., & West, R.E. (2012). The effects of international experience on individual creativity. Poster shown at the McKay School of Education Mentored Research presentation in Provo, UT.

 

Randall, D.L. (2011). A brief overview of creativity. Presentation given to Educational Psychology undergraduate class at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT.

 

Randall, D.L. (2011). Assessing creativity: How to measure what we cannot see. Presentation given to Educational Psychology undergraduate class at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT.


West, R. E., Tateishi, I., Randall, D. L., Fonoimoana, M., & Wright, G. (2010). Collaborative Innovation. Presentation given at the Instructional Psychology & Technology department seminar at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT.