Karma and bounties
How to increase your karma
A crucial feature of the DAE learning game is that of karma. Every stakeholder has a varying amount of karma during the learning process that is used for governance, self and peer assessment, and remuneration.
Karma can increase through virtuous actions or bounties. A virtuous action is a behavior that augment the homogeneous level of knowledge of the classroom.
Bounties are either bound or free variables in the scaffolding of the course. This means that some actions are fixed in advance by the teacher, and other can be proposed and voted by the community.
For the Red Panda course, the first online iteration of the DAE model, we provided three levels of karma, associated with different badges:
initially, all students will start with karma 10 and the teacher has karma 30
while teacher's karma is immutable, students can increase their karma by completing bounties
the first badge is called Red Panda and corresponds to karma 10. Hence a student has this badge by simply participating to the course
the second badge is called White Tiger and corresponds to karma 20. Hence a student that accumulates 10 points of karma reaches this threshold
the third and last badge is called Black Dragon and corresponds to karma 30, hence 20 point of karma higher than the entry level. Notice that teachers are Black Dragons from the beginning
So, what is a virtuous action, concretely? And how worth is it in terms of karma? Here are some examples:
Answer a non-trivial question made by the teacher or by a peer student. Questions a posed during the teaching or on the Discord channel of the course [karma +1]
Discover a significant bug (mistake) in the teaching material [karma +2]
Make a new proposal that is going to be voted [karma +5]
Learn a topic and make a brief presentation (max 45 minutes) to the class [karma from +8 to +10 depending on the votes of stakeholders]
Additional bounties can be proposed by the students and voted by the community.
The Red Panda, White Tiger and Black Dragon badges have been designed by pixellare.
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