Are you looking for an innovative approach to spot light learner skills? Open Badges is a program by Mozilla that issues digital badges to recognize skills and achievements. Why Open Badges? We present to you the usefulness of badges as digital indicators of skills learned inside or outside the classroom.
Verified Credentials
Open Badges are metadata-rich. Each badge has important hidden data, hard-coded into the badge image file, linking back to the issuer, giving criteria and verifying evidence.
Making badges easy to verify and difficult to forge.
Multi-Sourced
Collect badges from many places, online and off, into a single backpack. Then display your skills and achievements on social networking profiles, job sites, websites and more.
Soft Skills Count Too!
Positive interaction with customers or clients.
Collaboration with co-workers, subordinates or superiors.
Individual achievements are recognized and rewarded.
Length of deadlines and number of projects handled.
Each of these skills can be awarded and recognized in a public space, using badges.
Knit All Your Skills Together
Badges can build upon each other, joining together to tell the full story of your skills and achievements.
Knitting all your fine skills together gives employers a more complete picture of who you really are.
Create Your Own Learning Pathways
Learners can follow pre designed traditional paths linked with their skills, or can design their own customized career pathway from scratch. Learners no longer need to take bundled education packages, zeroing in on immediate needs and skills
Free and Open Source
Badges are open to anyone to use as part of Mozilla’s non-profit mission. This means that improvements made by one partner can benefit everyone, from bug fixes to new features. Using an open technical standard means that any organization can create, issue and verify digital badges, and any user can earn, manage and display these badges all across the web.
Badge Mobility
Learners now have an easy and comprehensive way to collect their badges in a single backpack, and display their skills and achievements on web, social media and job sites.
