Digital badges serve as a representation of learners' achievements, enabling them to showcase skills and proficiency in a flexible and verifiable manner. With the rise of online and remote learning, these badges offer a means for individuals to document and share their educational progress across various digital platforms. Open badges, established by Mozilla, further enhance this concept by providing a standard for authenticity and a 'backpack' feature to manage earned badges.

1. A GUIDE TO
DIGITAL BADGES

2. In the current digital world, knowledge and
information can be obtained from any platform be
it digital or analog. We must aid this knowledge to
quantify our skill-set and demonstrate our
proficiency. Digital badges in one such way to
recognise learners achievements and help further
in a career path.

3. A digital badge is the digital representation of learners’ achievement which
consists of the organization’s accreditation, the recipient’s name, and
validation for the qualified skill. The global pandemic has changed the face of
the digital world making it more learner-centred. Digital badges allow
flexibility in learning multiple career pathways, accomplishing multiple tasks
and projects, completing short courses, filling the portfolio gap by learning
hard skills and soft skills and also gaining hands-on verified experience of it.
Digital badges can be displayed across all digital platforms like social media,
websites and blogs. It can also be used as an email signature, digital avatar for
social networking sites like LinkedIn or Facebook and also while computing
your digital CV/Resume.

4. OPEN BADGES:
Open badges, founded by Mozilla in 2011, is neither a product nor a platform but a
type of digital badge that comes with a set of standards that verifies the
authenticity of the badge.Open badges are backed with metadata that verifies the
badge anatomy including, the issuer, the recipient, the date of issue, its validity
period, evidence, badge description and digital signature.Open badges also have
storage for multiple badges earned called a ‘backpack’. Backpack by open badges
display all the badges earned by the person and can be shared on digital platforms
making it easier for employers to access and verify the credentials collectively.

5. ISSUING A DIGITAL BADGE
Digital badges can be issued by an organization through digital
credentials or badging platforms. These platforms may have their
own set of criteria to issue, design and verify the badge credentials.

6. THE PROCESS OF ISSUING A
DIGITAL BADGE INCLUDES:
Criteria of the digital badge
Setting a course or a training program
Evaluating the program on basis of level progress and score
Determining what skills needs to be recognised in the badge
Designing the badge using a digital credential platform

7. Digital Badges are learner-focused and add to the learner’s
employment. It is easily shareable and portable, saving
time and cutting costs for both the issuer and recipient.
CONCLUSION

8. The Most Trusted Credential Platform