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Digital Badge Practitioner
Learn what digital badges are, how to design a badge programme, and how to launch it. Three modules, a practical task in each, and a certificate at the end.
What you will cover
Module 1
Digital badge foundations
What a digital badge actually is, what sits inside one, and how badges relate to certificates and micro-credentials.
- What a digital badge is (and isn't)Reading · 7 min
- Inside a badge: issuer, criteria, evidence, expiryReading · 7 min
- Open Badges and verifiable credentials, explained simplyReading · 7 min
- Badges, certificates and micro-credentials comparedReading · 7 min
- Inspect and verify a real badgePractical · 25 min
- Module quizSubmit the practical to open the quiz
Module 2
Designing a badge programme
Choosing what to recognise, writing criteria people trust, and shaping levels, names and governance.
Finish the previous module to open this one
- Use cases: where badges work bestReading · 7 min
- Writing criteria and choosing evidenceReading · 8 min
- Levels, stacking and pathwaysReading · 7 min
- Names, visuals and governanceReading · 8 min
- Design a badge for your organisationPractical · 30 min
- Module quizFinish the previous module to open this one
Module 3
Launching and growing your programme
Getting badges issued, accepted and shared, then measuring whether the programme is working.
Finish the previous module to open this one
- Issuing workflows: manual, bulk, LMS, events and APIReading · 7 min
- Getting learners to accept and share badgesReading · 7 min
- Measuring impact: acceptance, shares, verificationsReading · 7 min
- Privacy and data protection (UK GDPR and LGPD)Reading · 8 min
- Draft a one-page launch planPractical · 30 min
- Module quizFinish the previous module to open this one
Final project
Finish all the modules to open the final project
- Your badge programme proposalFinal project · 45 min