What are Digital Badges?
A digital badge is a highly portable, transferable, visible symbol representing a talent, skill, accomplishment, or achievement. Rather than focusing on a specialization in a certificate or degree program, digital badges, or micro-credentials, demonstrate range. They are much shorter in duration, and they are free. If there isn’t already a badge for your achievement, just ask! We can create one for you!
The UND Digital Badging & Micro-Credentialing Initiative allows evidence-submitted badges, which can be created for an individual staff, faculty, or student to recognize their own unique achievement. To discuss evidence-submitted badges, contact TTaDA for more information.
Why Use Digital Badges?
Badges help communicate about competencies, achievements, and skills that an individual has earned or achieved. As a digital credential, they can be shared in a variety of web-spaces or on social media platforms.
In higher education, badging is implemented to meet a variety of needs such as:
- Helping students better understand the learning outcomes and skill sets they gained through course work, programs, or in co-curricular activities
- Helping departments to think critically about their programmatic goals
- Encouraging and acknowledging professional development opportunities for staff and faculty
These credentials may be tied directly to the learning outcomes of a single class, or across core competencies of an academic program, or can exist outside of the curriculum entirely.
Process to Propose Digital Badge
The Micro-Credentialing Committee will review all proposal forms within two weeks of submission. Please contact TTaDA with questions.
- Complete the Digital Badge Proposal Form
- Digital Badge and Micro-Credentialing Committee will review the proposal
- Upon approval, an Instructional Designer from TTaDA will be assigned as a point of contact. The contact person and the Instructional Designer will ensure that the badge meets requirements from all parties
- Once participants have fulfilled their badge/micro-credential requirements, a CSV document will be shared with the Instructional Designer to disperse badges/micro-credentials.
About Credly by Pearson
Credly is a platform that provides a framework through which UND can create badges, define evidence and criteria, and then issue badges/digital credentials to the earner. Credly also acts as a medium through which earners can explore credentials, finding ones that meet their needs, and through which earners may display them on websites, resumes, and social media platforms.
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