Digital badges can summarize skills, qualifications, and achievements in an online portfolio. They provide verification and recognition of learning through metadata embedded in image files. Platforms allow issuers to create and grant badges to earners, who can display and share their badges online. Badges motivate learning, recognize diverse skills, and help map learning pathways. Industries and universities are increasingly using digital badges for talent management, online training, and skills development.

1. DigiFabCon 2018
Create . Share . Inspire
How to Recognize (Almost)
Anything With Digital Badge
Geoffroi Garon-Épaule, M.A., PhD Candidate
Researcher and PhD Candidate in communication, UQAM (Montréal, Canada)
Entrepreneur – Human Capital Valorization, Digital Pygmalion
Presentation | Schaumburg (Chicago), USA, March 28, 2018
Exploring Digital
Fabrication's Impact
on the World!

2. 10 years digital consulting
(SME, Education, Health, Culture)
8 years in Open innovation
(Living Lab, Fab Lab, Blockchain, AI)
3 years in Digital Badges
(Startup + PhD)
Profile
http://digitalpygmalion.com

3. PhD codirection
Pierre-Léonard Harvey
Organizational Communication
Community
Informatics
Design Applied
to Digital Social
Systems
(Springer)
Ann-Louise Davidson
Educational Technology
www.educationmakers.cawww.lca.uqam.ca

4. Hub for experimentation and
training in technological and
social open innovation
8
2011
First in Canada
2010
Community Association Partner
2015-2018
Fab16 + FabCity
In Montreal, Canada
In 2020
Social inclusion – Education – Economy – Digital Fabrication
www.communautique.quebec

5. Community Association Partner
https://www.echofab.quebec

6. Challenges
Acceleration of everything
Automatization
Skill Gap - Skill Mismatch
21st century skills
Learning Methods
…

7. Solution
Digitize skills and
learning pathways
with digital badges

8. Digital badges

9. They can be hosted, manage and shared across
digital files containing a set of encrypted
metadata that describe skill, experience or level
of accomplishment.
Digital badge is a digital file
(web page) that is a visual
representation of a learning or
accomplishment. It’s a tool that
confirms the evaluation of
specific experiences.
Digital Badges Definition

10. +
Context
Endorsment
Multilinguale

11. Digital Badge
https://www.cadre21.org/membres/thibaultm/accomplissement/badges/thibaultm-badge-classe-inversee-1-explorateur-5

12. Evidence associated with a badge
https://www.cadre21.org/app/uploads/preuves/55-1280.pdf
Image
Text
Video
PDF

13. Digital Badge Porfolio
https://www.cadre21.org/membres/thibaultm

14. The standard Open Badges were created in 2011
by Mozilla to ensure that badges may belong to
the learner, to ensure safety, transfer to other
platforms and sustainability of these in time.
Since 2017, IMS Global manage the standard.
Open Badges Standard v2.0

15. The administrative component (dashboard)
can create badges, granting them to make
effective management and value them.
The user component (portfolio) presents itself
as a portfolio in which students collect, manage
and categorize their digital badges and above
display for communicating and sharing (social
media, website, etc.).
Digital badge system

16. • BackPack
• BadgeOS
• BadgeFactor
• Badgr
• P2PU
• Salava
Open
Platforms
Private
Platforms
• Acclaim
• Badgecraft
• Badgelist
• Credly
• DigitalMe
• Openbadge Factory
- Passport
• Canvas
• edX
• Moodle
• Totara
LMS
Platforms
Digital badge platforms

17. Badge Factor WordPress Plugin
www.badgefactor.com

18. Badgr, server platform
https://info.badgr.io

20. Public education, social engagement
(volunteering), learning spaces (Fab
Lab, Living Lab), online training
(applications, MOOC)
Improve talent management,
increase organizational
effectiveness and marketing
Support and motivate students,
customize learning,
complement (co-curriculum)
3 Contexts of Use
Academia
Workplace
Society

21. 3x3 Uses of Digital Badges
Evaluate
Communicate
Structure
Motivation
Recognition
Certification
Artefact
Portfolio
Data
Learning
Organization
Ecosystem

22. Advantages of digital badges
The main advantage of this technology is to recognize formal and
non-formal learning and generate confidence. There are also a host
of other benefits such as:
•Valuing a greater diversity of learning and skills
•Mapping learning pathways
•Motivate the level of learner engagement and retention
•Recognize the different paths leading to a badge
•Develop and enhance cross-curricular competencies and skills that
are often difficult to qualify (communicate, collaborate, creativity).
•Support the implementation and recognition of learning with
pedagogical approaches based on skills and projects (learning
experience).
•Increase the identity and reputation of learners
•Enabling learners to discover peers by interest in a community
•Increase the brand of an organization

23. The value is built around
relationships among the
different actors and the
ecosystem that support
digital badges.
Issuer : Create and awards
the badge
Earner : Receive and
communicate the badge
Consumer : Recognize the
value of the badge
Earner
Issuer
Consumer
Trust
ecosystem
Digital badge value

24. Badge to Evaluate
Gamification to
learn a language
https://www.duolingo.com

25. Netmath
https://www.buzzmath.com/badges
Gamification to
practice Math

26. Mouse
http://www.mousesquad.org

27. Mouse
http://www.mousesquad.org

28. Netmath
https://www.cityspan.com
Cityspan

29. CADRE21
For Teachers wishing to engage in an active approach to
professional development, continuing education platform,
CADRE21 provides personalized learning opportunities. It enables
effective skills recognition through recognized digital badges. The
skills involved are threefold: ICT skills, teaching strategies and
classroom management. The CADRE21 supports the human capital
development of schools across the international Francophonie.
https://www.cadre21.org

30. CADRE21

31. Badge numérique : l’écriture collaborative 1 - Explorateur

32. Université Wichita, Kansas
http://badges.wichita.edu/badgecatalog

33. IBM Digital Badges Program
https://www-03.ibm.com/services/learning/ites.wss/zz-en?pageType=page&c=M425350C34234U21

35. https://www-03.ibm.com/services/learning/ites.wss/zz-en?pageType=badges&id=c98fdc5c-b5f5-4c00-bd61-2db0efabedde
IBM Design Thinking Practitioner (2017)
The most awarded with 88,600 badges.

36. IBM Design Thinking Practitioner (2018)
https://www-03.ibm.com/services/learning/ites.wss/zz-en?pageType=badges&id=c98fdc5c-b5f5-4c00-bd61-2db0efabedde

37. https://www.ibm.com/design/thinking/page/badges
Entreprise Design Thinking Program

38. IBM Impacts

39. IBM Impacts

40. • Microsoft
• Oracle
• Cisco
• Autodesk
• Adobe
• HR Certification Institute
Corporate digital badges

41. http://badgenumerique.com/2017/06/world-chefs-certification-internationale-de-chef-culinaire-professionnel-avec-des-badges-numeriques

42. Fab Lab San Diego
http://www.fablabsd.org

43. Fab Lab Le Dôme
http://ledome.info

44. échoFab - Communautique
http://echofab.org
3D Print
First Project
Drone
Piloting
Fab
Manager

45. badgetheworld
http://www.badgetheworld.org
Digital Badges Around the World

46. badgetheworld
https://badge.wiki
Knowledge Base Wiki

47. Geoffroi Garon-Épaule, M.A., Ph.D Candidate
@geoffroigaron - www.geoffroigaron.com
Researcher and Ph.D candidate in Communication, UQAM
www.lca.uqam.ca
Entrepreneur, Digital Pygmalion
www.digitalpygmalion.com
E-mail : conseil@geoffroigaron.com
Phone : +1 514 773-3332
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